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2007-03-05 20:41:39 · 32 answers · asked by connorschrissy 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

32 answers

Only in their own minds.

2007-03-05 20:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 3 4

This is a question that can be easily dismissed except for one small thing...every culture that we know of, and know of it's myths and legends, has stories about wizards and vampires. Since this is the case, one has to ask the question "Why these stories about something that has never and will never exist?" I've never seen a vampire, and know no wizards but this does not make a reasonable argument to proclaim their non existence. I've never seen a terrorist, but I know they exist. I'm certainly not going to say that wizards and vampires exist in the form you must mean (ie Spike, Lestat, Merlin etc), but clearly there is SOME reason for peoples all through the ages to tell the stories. I do know that there are misguided souls out there who believe that they are vampires, I actually know an individual who dated one..though I think she had other problems than being undead. As for wizards, I know people who feel that they are spell casters, and have seen some things that make me wonder if it is true. So the real answer to your question is....yes/no/maybe/ I don't know. Okay?

2007-03-05 21:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by Sartoris 5 · 0 1

YES THEY DO Vampire bats definitely do exist in South America and feast on blood including human blood. Anybody bitten and feasted on by a vampire bat while asleep would have little tooth insertion marks on them (just as described by Bram Stoker). It is also true that a protection against being bitten by a vampire bat can be wearing of very strong smelling garlic! But what is not true is that the bats can take human form nor are they really "undead" humans.

Wizards also exist and practice ritual magic, though how well this works is a matter of conjecture. The spells Wizards and Witches put out are usually beneficial not harmful.

2007-03-06 10:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by Wamibo 5 · 0 1

A wizard is a male witch, who in turn is a magician or sorcerer. Anyone who performs the seemingly impossible could be classed as a wizard - hence 'he's a wizard at maths'. There are other examples, but yes the Wizard exists in today's world. People who can perform the impossible.
A vampire in legend is a re-animated corpse, who needs to drink blood to survive. So, even if you don't believe in re-animation, there are still people about today who drink human blood. So the answer to this part is yes/no. You make up your own mind.
(You missed the werewolf out - and you wouldn't want a violation, now, would you....)

2007-03-05 21:21:10 · answer #4 · answered by Bunts 6 · 0 1

From a point of view on reality. You should define what you mean by exist. The two words that you are asking about is 'wizard' and 'vampire' they exist on many different levels. The first being as an inclusion into the Oxford English Dictionary. Therefore they are language and language exists.
If I talk about a wizard and you can create a mental image of a wizard then to you a wizard has just taken on shape. If both of us were to go and seperately draw a 'wizard' then we would have two representations of what wizard is that is no longer just language, but has physical attributes represented on paper. 'Vampire' is the same. So existance has to be there for us to use the term.

I doubt you will ever meet what you percieve to be 'wizard' or 'vampire' in our physical realm of existance though.

2007-03-05 20:59:13 · answer #5 · answered by harry_the_monk 3 · 0 3

well, that depends. you believe it or not? some people believe they exist, some others dont. there are thousands of pages written about wizards and vampires. recently a review about vampires says that they might be people with photobia or erythrodermia. means that if they get exposed to sun, their skin gets all red and feels like it burns. they are usually very white in the skin and they are afraid of the light of course. maybe in the old times, these patients were considered weird and called vampires.

2007-03-05 21:21:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0 1

Yes. The legend emanates from the 3 species of blood sucking bats of family desmodontidae occurring mainly in tropics of South America. There have been genuine cases of them getting into somebody's bedroom and having a drink of their blood, much like mosquitoes and bedbugs also such people's blood out of them when asleep in their beds. but the vampire bat takes a very much larger quantity of your blood even than 100 bedbugs in your bed would, and after being sucked dry you will indeed be very ill and weak, and if the creature returns to your bed on a following night for another meal you will suffer such a loss of blood that death could result.

However so far as I know, if somebody dies as a result of excessive loss of blood from one of these creatures having a meal off him, the victim does not turn into a new vampire bat.

As for Wizards, yes they exist too. They practise Wicca magic which does work, but this is in no way connected with vampire bats!

2007-03-05 20:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by cimex 5 · 1 1

Yes. In my country, we have ample amount of them!! There have been proofs dating back to the 11th Century.... I forgot their names though (popular vampires)... And my uncle who happens to be a seaman, was once travelling through a rather tiny island and they admitted to have seen a vampire....or vampires for that matter!

About the wizards, I do believe that some people are given such gifts. I believe those stuff. But as for the wizards, I don't have much proof.

2007-03-05 21:32:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Yes wizards do but they are called different these days such as illusionists...doctors...herbalists....faith healers hypnotists and including a society called the special people who can do almost anything by will power. Vampires....well they are linked to zombies who need blood to exist......but i've never seen a real zombie. But vampire bats are real..they drink the blood from horses and cattle.

2007-03-05 21:14:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Yes...why not?..
Especially if you don't think of them as the typecasted variation of Vampires and Wizards...

Google both Vampires-types
and Wizards -types/kinds
and answer for yourself...If you believe there are -they exist...plus people believe that they are actually one of the two -so to them at least, they exist..Either way, it's interesting...

2007-03-05 21:54:13 · answer #10 · answered by ~Gypsy~ 2 · 0 2

Wizards, Not like in the movies or under that term. Magick Is alive and well but just not so dramatic as you see in movies. To learn more research Wicca and paganism. Vampires, the same..there are those that like blood, however they can'nt become bats and can walk in the day.nor are they immortal..However there are Energy vampires that thrive on draining the spirits energy and do in fact seem to need it...

2007-03-05 20:54:18 · answer #11 · answered by Joey D 3 · 1 2

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