before you answer think about this every wear in the world peaple have
come up with the legend of the vampire and back then there was no way of comunication.
2006-09-11 11:56:59 · 22 answers · asked by daidiiro 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
explain why
2006-09-11 11:59:32 · update #1
and for those of you who are going to point out my spelling thats how they used to say it
2006-09-11 12:05:07 · update #2
yes and i know through logical reasoning.
2006-09-11 12:03:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe the legend of the vampire originates from the story of a lord or king of a castle(I don't know the entire story) who enjoyed eating his food raw, as in with the blood. Perhaps that is where the legend of the vampire came from. Watch the old black and white, silent film Nosferatu; that's what I believe to be is the oldest film made concerning vampires, even before Dracula. Soon, I guess the legend spread, and people all over the world started to conconct their own stories and legends to get attention, or just for the sake of spreading rumors and stories (that is usually how most legends spawn).
2006-09-11 19:15:35 · answer #2 · answered by Display Name 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course who do you think is running the IRS? Seriously though Vampirism though is a real mental disorder and has actually been linked to people such as Romanian prince Vlad Dracul the Second a.k.a Vlad The Impaler (who the book Dracula and later the movies were named after) and Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory. Bathory often drank the blood of servants and children of fellow nobles in hopes of maintaining her youthful appearance.
Another source of this belief was in the 1800s Typhoid was rampant in many parts of Europe. People with Typhoid often developed pale zombie like skin and developed sores around their neck which may have looked like teethmarks. They were mistakenly diagnosed as having been bitten by vampires. They figured the vampire had turned into a bat to bite it's victims. Medical treatments of the time were primitive and many times people simply died.
Others fell into a coma. Alas those suffering from a coma were mistaken for dead and left by the churchyard or in makeshift morgues in their comatose state during the cold months when the ground was too hard for proper burial. If they recovered during this time they simply got up and walked away. All it took to count someone as dead at the time was a mere declaration from the family to a doctor. Since doctors of the time had little if any formal training their methods of diagnosing illnesses was poor.
Vampires as they appear in movies and on TV today however are merely the product of fiction and amalgamations of centuries old folk-lore and novels.
2006-09-11 19:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I'm not sure if I believe in the immortal kind, but I do believe in sang's and psi-vamps. Sang vamps need blood in order to obtain energy, whereas psi-vamps can feed off pranic/psychic energy, sexual energy, etc... There are also those who practice vampirism.
I believe in them mostly because I know a few people who claim to be vamps and I don't see any reason why they can't exist.
If you'd like more info, here's a link to a good site: http://www.sanguinarius.org/
2006-09-11 19:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Think about something more realistic like stalkers under the bed or something. Vampires are just myths.
2006-09-11 19:00:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
of course not, you fool.
you might as well believe in werewolves or zombies or the boogie man.
i believe there may have been pagans who used blood-drinking as part of a ritual, which became exaggerated, and was passed on into myth and legend, sure.
but actual blood-drinking mystical creatures?
no.
2006-09-11 19:06:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
2006-09-16 05:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope I don't believe in vampires to me it was just a another one of people's sad superstitions. Right next to aliens and unicorns.
2006-09-11 18:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Dee I 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No I don't. I believe it was a myth or a really bad faerytale told to scare children into staying in bed.
2006-09-11 19:03:07 · answer #9 · answered by Belle 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know if I believe or not. I do know that they (vampires) are my favorite kind of scary movies.
2006-09-12 12:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by marie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh God, i love your linguistic capability. You spell as you speak. You have a distincitive phonology matched equally by your capability to write them as it sounds LOL. Atleast, i know how you say them instead of wondering your pretending a fake accent.
2006-09-11 20:01:26 · answer #11 · answered by john s 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋