CURIOSITY of vampires

TYPES OF VAMPIRES, according the Country

The deep Europe trembled before the epidemic, and the word vampire appeared for the first time to name that, that the Central European peasants called with different names for centuries. In lands of Bosnia, the “blausauger” (the bloodsucker), lacked bones and he was able to become a rat or a wolf, property that shared with the “farkaskoldus” of Hungary and the “Vlkodlak” of Serbian.

The “bruculacas” of Greece also removed an unbearable smell and its skin, the same as the Serbian vampire, was tight as that of a drum and reddish.

There were infantile vampires, as the Serbian "kuzlak" that was formed starting from a “mort blanca” pulled up to their mother and whose behaviour was more annoying than terrible. The infantile vampires, was as the “Rumanian moroï”, formed starting from a one died newly born by their own mother before being baptized, too.

There were vampires with a single hole in the nose, as the Bulgarian “Krvopijac”. There were also vampires with strange deformities, as the Rumanian “strigoi” that could have goose paws, of goat or of horse.
The Russian “upir” had the language in sting form.
The Albanian “liuvgat”, so that there was not doubt on the origin of the local fears, he had Turk aspect and he walked on some high heels.

In conclusion, the Balkan Peninsula was a place with different kind of vampires, and the means to combat them were also of the most varied thing.

SYSTEMS to combat them

To combat the vampires, you need to cut the vampire and to boil it in wine, in the case of the “burculacas”.
In the case of the “krvopiíac” they need to put on their casket a branch of wild rosebush; or of thorn, in that of the “kuzlak”.
For eliminated the “vlkodlak” that thorn branch had to put in the navel and then, to fasten him fire with a candle used to veil to a dead.

ORIGIN and DISPERSION of the legends of vampires

From where did come so much fear at the bloodsuckers?
The fear comes of the sacred consideration of the blood like creator of the eternal life: the blood of the god Bel, creator of the world in the mythology of the old Babylon; Christ's blood in the Christian ritual.

The legends of vampires originated from this to west in company of the caravans along the route of the silk for the Mediterranean, of there they extended to Asia and then to the Slavic lands and the Carpatos.

The Gypsies emigrated from north toward the west of the India (where they have several myths of vampires), their myths already there mixed with those of the Slavic town. The Gypsies arrived shortly to Transylvania before Vlad Dracula was born in 1431. The vampire here was the ghost of a dead person that he had been a witch, magician etc. in most of cases.
Everybody is afraid with the vampires, because they kill people but at the same time they resemble them. But there are certain things that they differentiate them of an alive being: it can’t project any shade type neither and it can’t be reflected in any mirror.
The vampires can also change form, as a bat for example and that makes it extremely difficult of capturing.

When beginning a new day the vampires have to sleep in their caskets because the sunbeams would kill them, but at night they wake up thirsty of blood. The most common form of being nurtured is flying for a window, in bat form and then to bite the victim in the neck and suck they all blood. The vampires can’t enter to a house without being invited, but as soon as they have the permission, they can as often as them enter they want.

The vampire isn’t dangerous only because it kills people, he’s dangerous because their victims after dead become vampires.

The more strong side of the vampires is that they are almost immortal, some very special rites can only kill them such as: to nail a stake in their heart, to cut their head or to burn their body.

VAMPIRES, his history

There are many different legends and myths of old civilizations. The vampires usually are the main characters of thrilling terrify stories, that they have fed the human imagination for centuries.

The bloodsuckers have received different names and faces in the entire world, but only one has been able to become their emblem thanks to a movie: “Dracula”. Dracula is based on a historical character, the Rumanian prince Vlad Sods, created by the writer Bram Stoker. With his piece, Bram Stoker created a modern myth of terror.

What do the deads make at night? What do they feel in their suffocating earth channel? What do the deads want? These questions have visited the imagination of the humans every night from their existence.
Between religion speculations and realist arguments, a possible answer has always emerged able to freeze the heart:
They hate who survived them and they take advantage of the darkness, the Kingdom of the shades, to return of the tomb and to torment the alive people.
The man has always looked for a name to nominate them. The illnesses, disappearances and deaths of difficult explanation have been loaded from old in the dark bill of the deads that they return of the further on, anxious of blood: the vampires.

The biography of the vampire came of the past of the human species and in the swamp of its fears. But the same as the fear has many faces; the vampire has received very different names from all over the world, although one of them has become his emblem: Dracula.
May of 1897, 20 the door of the gloomy castle of the Cárpatos where the count Dracula habits, was opened up for the first time. The Irish writer Bram Stoker was a lover of the hidden sciences and member of the occult society Golden Dawn. In that date Stoker published a novel that will consecrate the figure of the vampire literarily and to transform Dracula into a modern terrifying myth.
But the biography of the vampire goes back a lot in the time before the novelist success of Stoker. It isn’t the biography of a literary character, is the biography of a supernatural being in whose existence has believed human beings' generations. During the XIX century the vampire had become a character more than the romantic aesthetics, reason of delightful frights and chills.


One century before, the myth of the vampire was not thing of amusement and entertainment. In the middle of Century of the lights, good part of Europe lived what has called you a vampirism epidemic.


The father Calmet, made a Treaty of vampires published in Paris in 1746, where it was shown sincerely convinced of a thing:

"For around about sixty years, a new scene offers to our life in Hungary, Vioravia, Silesia, Poland: They are come to dead men for several months that: they return, they speak, they go, they infest the towns, they mistreat the men and the animals, and they suck the blood of their neighbours.”