Can you plese tell me everything you know about vampires?!


Question: Can you plese tell me everything you know about vampires!?
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The Vampiric legend has changed through out time!. Everything from the physical appearance to the psychological aspects of it very being have changed to satisfy the needs of it's believers!. The myth of the Vampire has changed drastically since the days of Peter Polojowitz!. The Vampire has gone from an undecaying corpse who strangled their victims in a ghostlike form to the evil bloodsucking undead that we love, hate, and love to hate!. Several written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries portrayed the Vampire as never leaving the grave and haunting from individuals to whole communities like ghosts!. The Vampires of the past centuries were little like the Vampires of today's society!. When compared to the Vampire of today you can see the transformations it has gone through!. In the time of Plogojowitz Vampirism was considered a disease or plague that spread through the stench of rotting corpses!. That idea was held for a very long and did not only pertain to Vampirism!. Many of the so-called signs of Vampirism varied in that time era!. Some corpses stank and others didn't, others held fresh blood in their chest cavity and others didn't, but one that held strong through out many cultures was the fact that their bodies did not decompose!. Their bodies stayed in tact and their flesh looked healthy and held color!. Some accounts described the old skin falling away and new skin growing from under!. Other accounts illustrated the Vampire's hair and finger and toe nails continued to grow!.

The Vampires of today never go to the grave to be dug up again!. Their skin and bodies do not decompose like those of the past, but the Vampires of the past never left the grave!. Their is no written account describing the undead walking the earth!. The only thing written about the interaction between mortals and the undead, the `Vampire` came to them as ghosts or in fevered dreams!.

In most legends vampires and werewolves both have unnatural life spans but they are not immortals!. The word immortal means, "not subject to death - everlasting - cannot be killed!." Both vampires and werewolves can be killed and it is believed that werewolves can die from old age although that might take several hundred years!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants, who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living!. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive!. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 1800s!. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[1] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania!. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to what can only be called mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism!.

In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures!. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death!. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited!.

The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century!.[2] However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend!. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows!. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre!.

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vampires are a myth and i watched a bbc program that explained where it came from:

There is a disease called porphyria!.

t has been long believed that the condition associated with vampire legends is porphyria!. Vampire characteristics are similar to those of porphyrics and this may have led to the misconception in the early 1400-1600's that porphyria sufferers were vampires!. Vampire legends are in every country and porphyria is also found throughout the world!. Porphyria comes from the Greek word meaning purple!.

Of course, we now know that porphyria patients are NOT vampires, but porphyria might have contributed to the origin of the vampire legends!.

EXPLAINING PORPHYRIA

Porphyria is a group of disorders caused by the abnormal production of heme which is the base material responsible for making hemoglobin and chlorophyll!. Most types of porphyria are inherited!. A child needs to inherit the defective gene from only one parent to develop the disease!.

Heme is a substance found in all body tissues!. The largest amounts of heme are found in the blood and bone marrow, and heme is also found in the liver and red blood cells!. Multiple enzymes are required for the body to convert chemical compounds called porphyrins into heme!. If any of the enzymes are abnormal, the process is disturbed and cannot continue!. This allows the porphyrins to build up in the body!.

Excessive porphyrin in the body causes photosensitivity which is oversensitivity to sunlight!. When porphyrins are exposed to light and oxygen, they generate a charged, unstable form of oxygen that can damage the skin!. Nerve damage, pain and paralysis can occur in some porphyrias!. Sometimes an attack is so severe it can also lead to respiratory paralysis and the patient is unable to speak, breath or swallow!. At times, this if fatal!.


So BASICALLY

these patients can't go out in day time because sunlight harms their skin, their gums retract and their fangs appear to be bigger than normal and they had bleeding gums And garlic infact worsens their disease (coagulates blood)!.
this is how the myth started!
they associated it with bats because they would come out at night too and suck blood off animals!.

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well there bloodsuckers only go out at night cant touch holy crosses nor holy water also are allergic to garlic only die through a stake through heartWww@Enter-QA@Com

Vampires suck (just like your spelling)!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

its spelled please, and writing!. and vampires dont exist!.!.!. they are called bats!.!.!. go to google and look up bats :)Www@Enter-QA@Com

Did the book fall over, or did you mean "writing"!?

They don't exist!. That's all you need to know!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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