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.”
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.”
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