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What makes a vampire?
what is a vampire Is anyone born this way or choose the vampire lifestyle? Or will a strange twist turn you into a vampire?
In our modern culture, we seem to be in the midst of some sort of golden age of vampires. Apparently there are a lot of people out there who think vampires are pretty cool. So cool that today countless people are looking for ways to get closer to vampire life.
This may be due in part to certain trending pop fiction YA novels and their corresponding movie treatments. Many people think of vampires as distant, mysterious characters with vulnerable but unbeatable hearts of gold hidden in their undead chests.
But most vampires throughout history weren’t brooding, terrified teenagers with perfectly braided hair. Real vampires were quite evil characters, and turning into a vampire was once a very unfortunate life event.
How did vampires go from hated to praised?
Stephanie Meyer wasn’t the first to fiddle with the vampire definition. Bram Stokers Draculapublished in 1897, ushered in the modern interpretation of vampires disguised as charming if somewhat enigmatic gentlemen.
But it was Anne Rice who catapulted vampires into a new dimension, making them way sexier, way cooler, and somehow even more mysterious. Her 1976 novel Interview with the vampire is perhaps the greatest vampire story ever told, spanning two centuries of immortal life. The following film, starring Tom Cruise and a young Brad Pitt, cemented the vampire mysticism.
Fiction might make vampire life exciting and unique, but on the other hand, people don’t dig up someone’s coffin and stick a stake in their heart for nothing. Before duskbefore Ann Rice and even before that dracula the vampire legend terrified people from all different cultures around the world.
Is there any truth to these old myths and if so, do you really want to be a vampire?
Before you answer, read on.
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Real vampire stories and legends
Many people cite a true historical figure as the inspiration for the modern day vampire legend. In 15th-century Wallachia, there lived a nobleman with a particularly bad reputation and a habit of impaling his enemies on high stakes.
Some say he even consumed her blood with his meals. This gentleman became known as Vlad the Impaler after his death, but while he lived he was called Vlad the Third, Prince of Wallachia. His father, Vlad the Second, was known by the name draculwhich would have made Vlad the third Dracula.
So there really was a real Dracula that Bram Stoker based some of his characters around. But Vlad the Impaler was a lot more menacing than Stoker’s Dracula.
The vampire legend goes much deeper. Especially in Eastern Europe, the faith has prevailed. In 1726, a Serbian farmer named Arnold Paole died, only to be spotted days later wandering through his village, now with fangs and a thirsty look in his eyes. Hysteria naturally ensued, and the villagers dug up his body only to find that it had not decomposed, leading to the vampire cure with wooden pegs.
Such was the case with Peter Plogojowitz, another Serb who took on the ill-fated autopsy of vampirism. In both situations, authorities documented eyewitness accounts and supervised the digging up and staking out of the offending undead.
Much of this hysteria was due to the fact that most people at the time did not understand how the body breaks down after death. A dead body swells with gases in the torso, causing blood to seep through the nose and mouth. This change in body composition led people to believe that the body looked well nourished, especially if the living person had a slim build.
In addition, the evaporation of the bodily fluids causes body parts such as hair, fingernails and teeth to become more exposed. This can give the illusion that these body parts have grown.
For the typical uninformed villager, all of these signs pointed to one thing: it’s time to raise the stakes.
Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula
Real vampires in America and around the world
The vampire phenomenon also spread to America. In 1892, the body of a New England woman named Mercy Brown was exhumed after two months in the ground on charges of vampirism. When her corpse showed no signs of decomposition, the appropriate anti-vampire measures were taken.
While these accounts represent the best-documented cases of actual vampires, the tales date back to ancient times. Both the Greeks and Romans had legends of vampire-like creatures, as did the Persians, Babylonians, and Hebrews. In some cases, these beings resemble the undead vampires we’re used to seeing, such as vetala of Hindu folklore. In other cases, they are demonic beings with no earthly ties.
In ancient Serbian folklore, the Kudlak is a blood-sucking vampire who is in an eternal battle with the Krsnik, a shamanic vampire hunter. The two represent the conflict between the pagan god Perun and the evil serpent of the underworld Veles.
In Chinese mythology, the Jiangshi is a reanimated corpse that hops around with outstretched arms to grab people and drain their life force. The creature hides in caves and other dark places during the day, then roams the countryside at night in search of victims.
Even more recently we see the reinvention of the vampire myth in creatures like the terrifying chupacabra.
From Europe to Africa, from South America to the British Isles, to the Far East, tales of vampires date back to ancient times. Could that mean the vampire phenomenon is more than a legend?
How do you become a vampire?
If vampires are real, where are they from? Since we cannot possibly examine each culture’s explanation for the origin of vampires, let’s consider the most common Western definition.
While this is subject to considerable debate, the consensus is that in order to become a vampire you must somehow tangle with someone who is already a vampire. Whichever way it turns out, the point is that it involves an interaction with a real vampire. You cannot make yourself a vampire or simply decide that you are one. You have to be chosen.
Some people claim that you can be born a vampire, which is a fascinating idea in theory. This implies that vampires are a different race from hominids, meaning they evolved along a very similar lineage to humans and must have preyed on humans throughout history. Like vampire bats, they would have evolved to subsist on blood rather than solid food.
This is extremely implausible, but interesting to think about. Of course it eliminates the supernatural aspects of the vampire story.
But by most accounts, the transformation from human to vampire is a supernatural event. This poses several problems, not the least of which is finding an actual real-life vampire who is able and willing to transform you. (Hint: That weird pale-skinned guy down at the comic store who says he’s a vampire, almost certainly isn’t.)
Sure, there are many people today who claim to be true vampires, but think about it logically for a moment: If you were really a vampire, how would you live your life?
Would you announce it to everyone? Would you blog telling everyone about it or brag about it on social media? Would you tell your classmates or work colleagues? would you say it everyone?
It would be wise to be suspicious of anyone so boldly claiming to be a vampire. A true vampire in today’s world would have to be among the most wary and secretive of creatures. We’re talking about an undead being that may have been around for hundreds of years, a predator of humans that will probably have to do some pretty horrible things to get what it needs.
Such a creature could only survive by keeping its true nature secret, and such a thing would be almost impossible to detect. Therefore, it is pointless to go in search of vampires at night.
Odds are against it, but your only hope would be to run into a vampire by accident. Then what?
The whole idea of becoming a vampire then seems very unlikely.
Living the vampire life
Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of being a vampire based on the traditional western definition. Of course, there are many differing views on the natural and supernatural rules governing vampires, and you probably won’t really know what you’re getting yourself into until it’s too late.
However, the following thoughts are based on traditional vampire stereotypes.
Lack of dining options (Con)
There’s only one item on the menu: blood. Fancy a cheeseburger? A pity. And where do you get all that blood from? It is unethical to take it from humans, let alone illegal. blood bank? No. They have their hands full tending to hospitals and don’t have the time or resources to deal with vampires.
There are probably a few unscrupulous and awkward ways you can think of to get it, but it would all get pretty tedious after a while. Remember, this is something you must endure until the end of time. Speaking of living forever.
Immortality (Con)
Living forever sounds like fun, but you better watch out. We humans struggle enough to keep ourselves in one piece for 80 years or so. Can you imagine how difficult it would be not to seriously injure yourself for hundreds of years?
As a vampire you have superhuman strength, speed and reflexes, but eventually bad luck would catch up with you and you would damage a body part that you will need for the next thousand years. Let’s hope these super regenerative powers work their way through for you.
Being immortal also means you have to watch as those you care about grow old and pass away over and over again.
Antipathy…
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