how can a vampire become human?

Question

Like, what do they have to do? Or is it even possible? (Yeah, I know vampires don't exist, but I've been wondering for a while. lol

Answer 1

Restricting the answer to the realm of mythology and folklore and excluding modern fiction (which pretty much started from Stoker's "Dracula"), it just can't happen because a "vampire" is either a corpse possessed by a demonic entity, a demonic entity, or otherwise innately inhuman. The closest a folkloric/mythological vampire could get to "becoming human" would be to become a normal, dead corpse.

If one wishes to introduce modern novels into the question, then any way at all. Write a novel wherein vampires can become human by eating Menthos, and now vampires can become human by eating Menthos. Your method is every bit as "authentic" as anything written by Ms. Rice.

Answer 2

Depends on the mythos. Within folklore. No. Once you became a vampire you were dead and the only release from that curse was to be slain and thus really dead. Some novels allow it. Anne Rice in the Tale of the Body Theif (a novel in which Lestat shows the worst judgement remotely possible and is surprised at the out come for some reason) allows a version of a return to humanity. the TV show Angel had a vampire become human too. But for the most part the transformation is one way only.

Answer 3

In traditional folklore, no they can't become human again. They're already dead (or "undead" rather). The only way to release them from what they became was to kill them... Again.

In modern fiction, I haven't read a lot of vampire novels, but on tv and movies...lemme think. There was one episode of Angel where he got some special type of demon's blood into a cut while they were fighting, and when absorbed by his body it turned him human.

Seems like I seen or read somewhere that by killing the vampire that sired you, you could become human again, but I'm not 100% sure if I'm right on that. Maybe it was something else like if you killed one vampire, you also killed every other vampire he had turned. I dunno.

But modern fiction typically doesn't follow the traditional folklore and myths about vampires too closely. If a writer wants to add a new twist to the traditional myth, then people will probably accept it and go with it, even if it doesn't completely match up with what they have always heard about vampires.

Answer 4

here you go a answer to your problems
Vampirism, or the practice of drinking human blood, dates all the way back to ancient Greece (even earlier, by some accounts). If you wish to become a bloodsucker, here's some advice you can sink your teeth into.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Steps
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Step One
Find another vampire and let him or her bite you. Employ the swiftest, easiest and most painful method.
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Step Two
Become an evildoer and die in a state of sin. Note, however, that this technique (which comes from France and Greece) is not very plausible; there would be millions of beasts roaming the streets as we speak.
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Step Three
Have an undead person gaze at your pregnant wife or yourself, if you happen to be expecting. Employing this method will not help you change into a vampire, but it may change your unborn into one.
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Step Four
Chronically lie to your parents or die without being baptized. (Note that these ways can't be very credible either.)
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Step Five
Instruct your father to scream this at you in anger: "May the ground reject thee!" Having yourself cursed in this or another way by your parents could turn you into a fanged one after death.
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Step Six
Gobble up a sheep that was killed by a wolf and eventually, you'll become a bloodsucker.
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Step Seven
Travel back in time to the Greece of several centuries ago, where people who were excommunicated from the church were considered good vampire candidates.
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Step Eight
Come down with chorea (a disease associated with uncontrolled twitching).
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Step Nine
Ask your descendants to make a cat leap over your body when you've reached the hereafter.
Tips & Warnings

* Remember not to smile too much once you've undergone your transformation. Be certain th

Answer 5

In the movie Near Dark, which is one of the best vampire movies ever, they replace their blood with human blood, so became human again. That's one idea.

Now, the idea of a vampire is they lose their soul, there by becoming evil creatures, so they also lose their humanity. The main thing would to get their soul back. Even then, I don't anyone has really figured out a way to make a vampire human again, keeping in mind all possibilities.

Answer 6

Well, on the tv show Angel it basically said (in a prophecy) that he would become human when he saved enough lives to make up for the ones he took (he had also been given his soul back via a gypsy curse. I think it would take something of that magnitude for a vampire to become human again.

Answer 7

According to Dark Shadows and Forever Knight, vampirism can be "treated", but a permanent cure has yet to be found.

Answer 8

Read Anne Rice's Tale of the Body Theif.

Answer 9

Figure it out yourself, and then write a story about it. That's the fun thing about vampire stuff - you can make up your own. If you like vampire stuff, try Nora Robert's "Morrigan's Cross" trilogy.

Answer 10

depends on the trail of fiction you're following (e.g. ann rice disagrees with buffy the vampire slayer type fiction)