who thought of vampires???

Question

who made up vampires

Answer 1

The concept of vampires in the minds of ordinary people is connected with the image of a tall dark stranger with fangs and a black cape. This vision is of course highly influenced by the literary and cinematic portrayal of the typical vampire. In the Online Webster's Dictionary the word vampire is said to be originally a Serbo-Croatian word that has been incorporated into the English language through French which took it from German. According to Katharina M. Wilson (THE VAMPIRE, A casebook edited by Alan Dundes, 1998, page 3) there are four different linguistic theories about its origin, placing its roots in Turkish, Greek, Slavic and Hungarian. The first theory, suggested by the nineteenth-century Austrian linguist Franz Miklosich, states that "the word vampire and its Slavic synonyms upior, uper, and upyr are all derivatives of the Turkish uber (witch)." (Page 4). The second and third theories take a more classical approach. During the eighteenth-century several German linguists claimed that the Greek word πι (to drink) was the source of the English word. The third and most accepted theory is the one which advocates a Slavic origin. This is the etymologic theory that most dictionaries stick to. However, which Slavic language it is that contains the root stem for “vampire” is not fixed. The dispute about whether it is the Serbian BAMIIUP, the Serbo-Croatian pirati or any of the other suggestions which is the true root has not yet been resolved. The fourth and least credible theory is the one that a group of American and English writers have come up with. They argue that, even though the phenomenon of vampires is ancient, the word vampire is of a quite recent date and derived from the Hungarian word vampir. Katharina M. Wilson bases her claim about this theory’s low credibility on the fact that the Hungarian vampir postdates the first appearance of the more western vampire.

Answer 2

It depends upon your definition of Vampire, you assert none of that film stuff like immortality is unimaginable, morphing right into a bat and again - unimaginable, or being bit and becoming a morphing no-solar vampire. As a long way as I recognise vampires had been invented by way of films as fictional characters. How ever there are a few persons who had been born with surprisingly colossal canine, a few persons just like the chunk others, and a few persons just like the style of blood....Are those persons "vampires"? Again, it depends upon what you declare a Vampire truthfully is.

Answer 3

There were a lot of people in history who drank and bathed in blood. I think that it was Bram Stoker who brought it out. I know a lot of people in Hungary and surrounding countries really do believ in vampires.

Answer 4

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not sure who first publicised vampirism.....but the first vamp's name .....i forgot...****, sangi is gonna kill me....


im a sanguinarian by the way....

you should look up what that means. :)


or visit this site.....
sanguinarius.org

have fun

Answer 5

no idea. but have you read "I am legend" - great book.