Question about vampires

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Okay, since there seems to be a growing of vampire-based literature around, I just have to ask a few questions:
One: Do vampires really exist- Is there any historical support for actual vampirical existence, or are they just mythical creatures?
Two: If vampires do exist, are they a ‘race’, or persons associated with a demonic cult or possessed by demons?
Three: Has the Church, at any time, persecuted ‘vampires’? It seems to be a common idea when vampires in literature cross paths with the Church.
 
I don’t think vampires exist. Nonetheless, I will certainly watch the topic for updates. 🍿
 
There are no vampires.

There is life, and there is death, but no-one in between.

The Church has no position on vampires, zombies or the like. Those are just ancient superstition made into modern pop culture.

Blessed Lent and ICXC NIKA.
 
i guess Satan can manifest himself in whatever form he wishes to take on. its a sad state of our world when vampires and zombies get more attention than God, especially with our young people.
 
God created angels (or fallen angels known as demons) and humans.
There is no such thing as vampires, the bogey-man or the toothfairy etc.

The vampire myth started when, in 1987, Bram Stoker Dracula released the gothic horror novel Dracula. Interestingly, Bram Stoker based his vampire character Count Dracula on a real life historical person known as Vlad the Impaler, who is one of the most evil person in the history of mankind.

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Yes we are real, ManInTraining. And that garlic you hang around your bed at night will not protect you.
 
lilelvispresley said:
Interestingly, Bram Stoker based his vampire character Count Dracula on a real life historical person known as Vlad the Impaler, who is one of the most evil person in the history of mankind.
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TimeEntrance said:
Yes we are real, ManInTraining. And that garlic you hang around your bed at night will not protect you.
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Somehow I knew both of these would happen. Someone mentioning Vlad the Impaler, and one of my fellow vampires revealing himself.

Oh, and for the record, NO, we do NOT sparkle, so stop asking
 
Mathematical fact as to why vampires cannot be real:

Assume that a vampire can go only 1 week without feeding off human blood. Suppose each victim too becomes a vampire. If we start off with 1 vampire, after 1 week we will have a second. The next week goes by, we now have 4. Another week, another 4 to make 8 total. Keep on going until you hit the 33rd week and every single person on the planet is a vampire.

Even if you said a 25% infection rate was a more accurate figure than the 100% infection rate I give, you still have to deal with the dead victims (rather than the undead victims), which does not actually change the figures–that is, vampires cannot drink blood of vampires or of the dead.
 
Alberti_Devoveo said:
Mathematical fact as to why vampires cannot be real:

Assume that a vampire can go only 1 week without feeding off human blood. Suppose each victim too becomes a vampire. If we start off with 1 vampire, after 1 week we will have a second. The next week goes by, we now have 4. Another week, another 4 to make 8 total. Keep on going until you hit the 33rd week and every single person on the planet is a vampire.

Even if you said a 25% infection rate was a more accurate figure than the 100% infection rate I give, you still have to deal with the dead victims (rather than the undead victims), which does not actually change the figures–that is, vampires cannot drink blood of vampires or of the dead.
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Isn’t it obvious? We have blood substitutes. 🤷
 
Razanir said:
Isn’t it obvious? We have blood substitutes. 🤷
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Vampire lore (at least as we know it, the ancient Mesopotamians had a vampire-like entities in their folk lore) started in the 18th century. They could not possibly have created blood substitutes 300 years ago.
 
There are varieties of angel, there are demons and there are hints of other tricks of the enemy which are anthropomorphic, that may look more like bona fide angels than monsters and perform miracles rather than drinking people. The appearance of them would be a super bad portent though - shockingly bad romance novels would probably be the least of our worries.

Nothing like vampires exists as far as I’m aware beyond that.
lilelvispresley said:
God created angels (or fallen angels known as demons) and humans.
There is no such thing as vampires, the bogey-man or the toothfairy etc.

The vampire myth started when, in 1987, Bram Stoker Dracula released the gothic horror novel Dracula. Interestingly, Bram Stoker based his vampire character Count Dracula on a real life historical person known as Vlad the Impaler, who is one of the most evil person in the history of mankind.

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He is much maligned but actually genuinely misunderstood, you know. Really.
 
Alberti_Devoveo said:
Vampire lore (at least as we know it, the ancient Mesopotamians had a vampire-like entities in their folk lore) started in the 18th century. They could not possibly have created blood substitutes 300 years ago.
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That’s just what we want you to think :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for replying. I was actually asking because of the possibility of me writing literature of the fantasy type, and I was wondering whether or not there were the possibility of ‘biological vampires’ ie: having snake-like fangs and sedative venom, injection or consumption of hormones from humans, stuff like that.
So now, at least I don’t have to worry about ‘historical correctness’ when it comes to stuff like that, for the most part.
Specifically, in case you were wondering, I was going to have the mythological figure ‘Santa Claus’ be a vampire due to a curse placed on him. Like, how instead of helping the girls that Saint Nicholas gave the gold coins to, he tried to steal the money after Saint Nicholas left. However, he was stopped and was required to give gifts every Christmas as a result, becoming a being with classical vampiric abilities but no fangs.
Thanks for the help, everyone.👍
 
Nearly every culture on earth has some version of the two monomyths - Vampires and Shapeshifters - werewolves, weretigers, werefoxes, skinwalkers, etc. You can find them in Africa, in China, through Europe, in South America, among Native American tribes, and so forth.

Why are they so common in world folklore?
  1. They could be real.
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  1. We know that myths, legends, fairytales, and folktales are told for reasons, sometimes more than just being good stories. They can also be teaching stories. As Bruno Bettleheim pointed out, Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 Little Pigs are both on some level a warning to children against letting in the stranger. Hansel and Gretel is a warning against going into a stranger’s house, however appealing it might be. So, the Vampire/Werewolf legends might exist in almost every culture because they constitute a warning against…something.
I would argue that vampires are creatures that seduce an innocent and gradually drain his or her soul away, until finally the victim becomes just like them and begins to seek out their own victims, because that’s what child molesters do.

I would further argue that the werewolf (or other shapeshifter) appears to be a harmless human, but can change into a blood-thirsty, ravenous beast that will savage its victims, because that’s what psychopathic serial killers are.

Those two great enemies of the human race have existed in every culture and every time, not just in modern times, and the monomyths were created as a warning to people to be aware - and to beware - of such dangers.
 
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