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Question

Why do people want to be vampires and werewolfs... For the both of them are the most cursed creatures, That will ever walk this earth.... And all they ever have to look foward to is their ow Also how can someone believe that a vampire is sexy... When all a vampire is is a dead body that has been ripped apart for its blood. And is now animated by a blood thristy demon, That is incapable of love or sex.. Their legend tells you that.. As for a werewolf they just kill and eat.. And the average human that is a werewolf has no idea of what he or she is..And the only way they find out is if someone tells them... They also always attack their love ones first and they are both controled by demons. So why would any normal human being wish to be like that..... The true legend tells you that a vampire breaks mirrior's because even the demon can stand to look at their own rotting corpse... It would be nice if someone would take the time to explain it to me please....................................

The only thing these creatures have to look foward to is their own deaths

These creatures are nothing like what you see in a movie.... So how can a human being fall in love with such a gross creature. Do they really just have to much time on their hands or is it that they just don't have a life.... I really need to know......................................................

Answer 1

Wow...you've asked one of the hard questions, really. A *lot* of ink has been used in book after book that attempts to answer just this question. At least, as far as vampires go...were-creatures (lycanthropes) aren't as "popular," having declined steadily since the fading of the witchcraft scare.

Bear with me here, folks, this'll take a little while. :-)

There are a couple of one-line answers that might help give you a direction for research:

• "[They are]...frustrated sexuality turned to aggression" (Wilson, 444).

• "Power, sex, and immortality are the qualities of vampires that Americans relate to" (Dresser, 206).

Today, the appeal of such creatures comes from the mutated image of them created by print and video fiction. Such are the sources from which most people get their idea of what a vampire (or werewolf) is from these Byron-eque Gothic villians (or the sexually ambiguous creations of author Anne Rice). Many of these are the same folks who don't know that becoming actually means being dead while a demon (or other evil bloodthirsty spirit) reanimates the body that was left behind.

In the past, recorded cases attributed by the criminal to lycanthropy have been sex-killers with cannibalistic tendancies (Wilson, 440-444). This may be traced, in part, to an old and once wide-spread belief that consuming the flesh of an animal or person would confer the postive physical, moral, and intellectual qualities of the eaten upon the eater (Frazer v2:84-90).

Similar influences to the modern idea of being a vampire might possibly be traced to other old beliefs. One was that a priest or an oracle (and by extension, anyone) could can divine inspiriation from drinking the blood of a sacrifice (usually an animal, rather than a person) (Frazer v1:33-37). Another was that the blood carried a human's soul (and an animal's spirit). This leads us back to the consumption of which imparts the qualities of the source upon the drinker. This also fits in with the types of vampires (for there are many kinds described throught the world) said to be demon-inhabited corpses. Each victim that dies through the depradations of such a creature has had their soul taken by the animating demon. (We'll skip, if you don't mind, the whole problem with such a corpse being able to exit & re-enter its grave without distrubing it in any detectable way.)

If you'll pardon a slightly longer quote, a good example that helps explain it a bit is that "vampires have always combined symbolic elements of sexually transmitted disease with elements of the disease's carrier...it feeds by what Ernest Jones, an early disciple of Freud, called 'an exhausting love embrace', which preversely combines the sucking characteristic of love with the biting of hate. It may suck blood from its victim, or force the victim to suck its own. The vampire is an outsider that is nevertheless capable of transforming others into its own form...the vampire itself is a sensual infection, spread by the sheding of vital fluid" (Bishop, 129).

Now, to keep this from becoming a tedious monograph for all involved, we can put forward a possible answers to your question, based on today's conception of what vampires and werewolves are thought to be.

• For a lycanthrope, it would represent relinquishing one's self-control, self-awareness, and responsibility for one's actions. All these are things that are stressed (and cause stress) by the great deal of weight given them in today's crowded, technocratic world. One loaded with dangers utterly beyond the control of any given individual (nuclear weapons being stock example).

• For a vampire, it would seem to run as an opposite—they tend to represent more control of one's immediate "world." A lot of it can likely be traced to a complicated tangle of sex-related impulses, as the media image of the vampire has worked for year to cultivate the idea of the vampire as a sensual monster.

And here, to spare everyone (including me) further headache-inducing speculation, I'll draw this to a close, adding a few references that might help you to arrive at your own answer (for I'll not claim to be the last word on the subject).

Answer 2

Generally the reason is because they are fascinated by a fantasy, and their own image of vampires/werewolves is simply incorrect. They don't understand the nature of these creatures. But these people also can have an attraction to heinousness of these creatures and the allure they have- especially the allure of vampires. After all, vampires were made to look sexy to humans…. though of course in reality they are demonic; far from beautiful.

Answer 3

Immortality can be a huge temptations for those that fear death. Also the mystery of the subject just adds to the appeal. To know what its about.... Curosity killed the cat

Answer 4

Sounds like you may be just as obessed by them wanting to be like these creatures....wouldn't worry so much about it.

Answer 5

Vampires and werewolves are fanciful fairy tales.

Wake up and smell the roses.

Answer 6

sure i understand the element which you try to make me understand in an comprehensible way that's amazingly un comprehensible yet nonetheless comprehensible which makes me to assert UNDERSTOOD..

Answer 7

how do we know they walk the earth. Or is it all in your head?

Answer 8

This is make believe.You do know this don't you........?