if legends and myths have some truth in them,are vampires real?

Question

i love vampire movies and vampirism and all the sexuality in it.an i always wondered about it.

Answer 1

My best friend Basien is a vampire and he is so nice! He uses his thrall to intice the ladies for an evening of passion and romance

So, yes Vampires are very much real they just like to keep a low profiel

Answer 2

"Hollywood" vampires are just that, the truth of a vampire does not stalk the night or fly. They are not immortal, yet they can sometimes live longer then most people. They will not get burned by the sun yet most have a sensitivity to it. They do at times drink human blood, but only with permission. The most common of all vampires are the psychic ones...these are people you may know very well, most of them are not even aware of their affliction. Psy vamps are regular people who drain others psychologically. When you are around these people you can leave feeling tired or depressed. Most of these people are vulgar and obnoxious, they have a tendancy to put others down to make themselves feel better. But, the beginning of the mythology of vampires comes from, Vlad the Impaler, I could go on an on about that so I'll just leave you with a link.

Answer 3

well legends and myths have some truth in them because they are based on people's fears and fantasies and people all over the world have pretty similar fears and fantasies; also legends and myths can be warped versions of the truth, for example, someone saw a rhinocerous (sp?) and thought it was a unicorn. it's up to you what you want to believe in; i don't say they are real or not real, but i'm guessing your other answerer is right that they just are a figment of some active imaginations; it could be that sometime in the past in Transylvania or whatever there was some freaky guy who really loved to drink blood and kill people--so that turned into a vampire legend--it's really a matter of perspective and interpretation.

Answer 4

"Real Vampires"-how can this be anything but a contradiction in terms? We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guaranteed box-office draws, the media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. Generally speaking, our blood-suckers appear with a tongue planted firmly in one toothy cheek-from Bela Lugosi hamming it up in the 1950's, to last summer's teenage "vamp" movies, to Count Chocula breakfast cereal, the media seldom treat the vampire as truly fearsome. The stereotyped vampire traits are familiar to any child: vampires have big fangs, sleep in coffins, are instantly incinerated by sunlight, and are best dispatched by a stake through the heart. But the most important "fact" that we all know of course is that there are no such things.

Answer 5

Around Halloween Yahoo actually had a link to a man who proved that vampires do not exist using mathematical equazions. Very interesting and his theory appears very possible.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

vampires are real in the sense that some ppl really believe they're vamps. as far as the ones in books & movies, then no.

Answer 8

Vampires may not be a legend at all. Vampirism is defined as the act of drawing blood from someone for sexual pleasure. This and blood-drinking is a feature of sadomasochism, fetishism and psychosis.

It all started with Vlad Dracula - the impaler. He was born in 1431, in the town of Schassburg in Transylvania - now northern Romania. His father, Vlad Dracul, was a Catholic knight and local ruler. He lost his throne in 1447 when Hungarian ruler Janos Hunyadi marched into Transylvania. Young Vlad was held hostage, regained his father's throne briefly in 1448, but was overthrown.

After that, Vlad Dracula became Prince of Wallachia (Tara Romaneasca) when he married his cousin Ilona, on 25 August, 1456, and soon regained the throne.

He got more bloodthirsty after that and developed a taste for torture - impaling his enemies on sharpened stakes stuck in the ground. He also drank the blood of some of the victims - then a common enough practice for humiliating slain enemies, he even enjoyed dining in his 'forest of impaled' and gained the nickname Tepes (Romanian for impaler). Within a matter of years, Vlad Dracula slaughtered 100,000 people - 25,000 by impalement.

Later on, he lost his throne again, was imprisoned for 12 years, and then regained it for the last time in 1476. He went to war against the Ottomans, and within a month was killed in battle near Bucharest. Dracula was decapitated and his head put on display in Constantinople. His body was buried in a monastery near Snagov, in Romania.

The legend never rest. In 1488, a book called Dracule by Feodor Kuritsyn described him as a vampire. Source of this accusation were Vlad's wife Ilona, and their sons, Vlad and Mihnea. It is thought that Bram Stoker used this work as models for his 1897 horror tale, Dracula.

Not only that, vampires also exist in other culture, like the ancient Greeks, for example, where myths often portrayed the vampire as a woman who has died. She was called Lamai who lived in a cave and drank children's blood. She's half-woman, half-serpent.

Another one in Africa, among members of the Ashanti tribe in Ghana, the vampire is known as an Asasabonsam. He has iron teeth, and catches victims by letting his hooked feet dangle from the treetops. In Malaysia the vampire Maneden lives in a wild panadus plant and sucks blood from a man's elbow.

All a long way from the gothic vampire of Stoker's novel and ensuing Hammer horror films.Those tend to be based more on the gipsy legends. This type of monster is known as a mullo (one who is dead); it returns from the dead and sucks blood from a relative that caused his or her death, or didn't observe burial ceremonies.

And what about the legend of Elizabeth Bathory? The mother of all vampires. Bathory was born in 1560 to a powerful landowning family in Transylvania. She killed many young girls in the area - perhaps up to 600 - and bathed in their blood to preserve her youth and beauty. She was tried, with accomplices and sealed up in a chamber to die. An account of the case also helped inspire Stoker's novel.

Whether vampires exist or not, you decide... Goodluck!

Answer 9

No there are no such thing as real vampires, but maybe there are some blood-thirsty peeps.

Answer 10

well not in tems of drinking blood to stay alive but phycic vampires yes