As a blood-sucking undead who can turn into animals and mist and is destroyed by daylight? I hope not!!!
Nevertheless, all myths contain some thruth in them. While Dracula only walks in movies, there are many reasons why the vampire myth is common among many cultures:
1) There are people with a strange psychological disease that makes them crave for blood (not necessarily human, though). It is not clear if vampire novels started this disease, so maybe this is not the reason why
2) There are also many egotistical people who demand so much attention and care from their friends and family that they just seem to "drain the energy" of their closest associations. Such thing as an "energy" does not exist, but you know some people are so intense and demanding, they just tire you. Their character and demeanor to others reminds us in an archetypical way of the vampire.
3) Once it was not rare to bury people who had actually not died. Imagine the horror of opening the grave of a "dead person" who screamed and yelled in horror all night, and finding him with blood on his lips from biting himself and a look of horror of dying of insanity and asphixia.
4) There were once rituals and tribes who drank human blood as part of the custom. Both could have stayed within human folklore as part of a group of monsters who needed human blood. Combined with the conservative view on sexuality in the 18th and 19th century (and people who were not conservative as degenerates), and you can create the myth of the modern vampire.
2007-04-13 04:48:42
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answered by Historygeek 4
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Do vampires exist no. HOWEVER, in many cultures in the world there are tales of the dead craving the blood of the living. There was also Vlad III (the Impaler) Dracula and his cruel ways served as a basis for the book Dracula. NOW, there are vampire bats and they do drink the blood of living animals too.
2007-04-13 03:37:35
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answered by starystorms 2
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nope..... most of it is based on legend and parts of history that have been embellished to make the story more interesting. Count Dracula is a character based on Vlad the Impaler - who lived in Romania in the 15th century... he was considered to be a 'blood thirsty barbarian', which is why, i assume, he got labelled as a vampire.... Bram Stoker wrote a very successful book which linked Vlad with vampirism, and thus the modern legend was born.... u do get the occasional nut who believes that they are a vampire, but i think u can put that down to mental illness more than supernatural powers.
2007-04-13 03:35:03
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe most things are possible. They could be like the vampires in Underworld.
2007-04-13 03:30:22
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answered by Anonymous
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No, not unless you class blood sucking insects as vampires... or vampire bats...
I'm hungry.
2007-04-13 03:27:58
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answered by zer0tux 3
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Bats do
but o of course not
human vampires
inwhich you are talking about do not exist
2007-04-13 03:27:48
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answered by Huggles [mozzafan] 4
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Not in the blood sucking sense.
But there is a disease, pyoriah, that means it's sufferers have to drink blood to stay healthy
2007-04-13 03:28:11
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answered by Weatherman 7
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vampire bats yes. vampires well some people believe they are vampires and who am i to disappoint them.
2007-04-13 03:29:36
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answered by mamgu....... 6
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take a guess, heres a hint the answer starts with a N and ends with a O
2007-04-13 04:20:07
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answered by Anonymous
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here ,thats in your cultural belief ,be more down to earth.be more realistic minded.thats a long time ago belief to make people belief in religion, make them have more faith.its was develloped in people mind due to bad dream that might have develloped in the mind. me donn't believe in it
2007-04-13 03:34:20
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answered by kev1n2001 1
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