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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 Nineteenth Century. 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. 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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superman
superman posted over 6 years ago

ooh i like them.

ellisisland
ellisisland posted over 6 years ago

vampires are fucking hot.

ikaqueen
ikaqueen posted over 6 years ago

Strange. I love vampires, they are so much better then other undeads…. More stylish, I guess…

maidenka
maidenka posted over 6 years ago

Kako bi bilo cool da ti je decko vampir… Imala bi razlog da izlazis do kasno, a matorci ne smeju nista da ti kazu…:) kako sam zla, BOZE !!!

ikaqueen
ikaqueen posted over 6 years ago

Da znam! A i plus su bas cool. Bukvalno:D E ali ozbiljno, mogla bi da za celog zivota imas decka koji ne stari. Divota. A i predpostavljam da malo vise imaju pojma o zivotu od obicnih decaka, zar ne? Mozda su i bolji u krevetu :D

maidenka
maidenka posted over 6 years ago

Sigurna sam… A sta mislis, kako je izlaziti sa vukodlakom?

ikaqueen
ikaqueen posted over 6 years ago

Malo su maljavi… A i lose raspolozeni kad je pun mesec. Inace su vrlo sexy :D :)

maidenka
maidenka posted over 6 years ago

Ikoooo ko ti je najbolji drug a ko najbolja drugarica? I sta bi sa ljubavnim zivotom?

ikaqueen
ikaqueen posted over 6 years ago

Najbolji drug Bojan pa posle njega, Jane, Yorda, Gale, Daca… Drugarica Jeca, Andjela, Kata, Miha… Ljubav… sta to bese? :)

Chisaiibaka
Chisaiibaka posted over 6 years ago

I want to be one! :(

pinku
pinku posted over 5 years ago

I want to be one too…. it be awesome to have one as a companion….they’re so fricking hot xD

Yuusuke~Kiri
Yuusuke~Kiri posted over 5 years ago

To drink blood is so hot!!!! I wish I could be one.

nobodybutme
nobodybutme posted over 5 years ago

YES!!! I love them I was born in Romania!! it was so much fun to hear all the "scary" stories that my grandpa would tell me.

Jandalane
Jandalane posted over 5 years ago

Vampires are the best. Period….XD

Snoo
Snoo posted over 5 years ago

They're cool but Count Dracula wasn't a vampire…(I'm a Romanian so I should know)

Mister Boomy
Mister Boomy posted over 5 years ago

nobodybutme? Could you tell some of them scary romanian vampire stories?:)

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

okay i am obsessed with like modern day vampire stuff... i actually plan on going to NY to underground NY and meeting some maybe... i dunno, but they are very sexy, i am drawn to them

 i'd let one bite my neck!~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

mad_emo
mad_emo posted over 5 years ago

im with the comment under me they are sexi and they do pull you in… those pic up there arnt really what most ppl think of them as anymore… there more beautifuller

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

it certainly helps that they don't rot.  sex with a zombie? gag sex with a vampire? heaven

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

I agree with Silthilar… hmmm… (sighs)

And what's this about mythical creatures? They are real... some of them have a disease where they must have blood to cure themself. Some vampires feed off the psyche. Can't recall the names though.

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 5 years ago

Psychic vampires can drain your energy just by being in the same room with you.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

Yes yes, i watched a documentary on that one.

Jana
Jana posted over 5 years ago

I'd ike an vampire choked n kissed on my neck

n then bited my neck so I'd become one of thier kind.

 

Snoo
Snoo posted over 5 years ago

They are mythical creatures. The myth was started by Bram Stoker who never visited Romania.

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 5 years ago

No, Bram Stoker only made it popular. The legends have been around for a very very long time.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

For many, many, many of milleniums… since man could speak, and come up with stories.

InMyDarkness
InMyDarkness posted over 5 years ago

I love vampires and I'd like to be one of them.

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

it would suck to be undead after the first millenia or so…it'd get boring…although i guess humanity is too fastpaced for that; there are always new movies to watch, food to try, cultures to experience…so nevermind, it would be rather neat

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

You'd get to see the world transform throughout the years and become very wise.

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 5 years ago

but everyone you ever loved would die before your eyes as you never aged

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

But you could love many ^^

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 5 years ago

to love many and lose all, is it worth it I wonder?

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

It's better to love and have lost than to…

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 5 years ago

Is it really? And how can one accuratly compare those two?

Topher
Topher posted over 5 years ago

Vampires usually kill those closes to them when they were human anyway, so I don't think it would really matter.

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 5 years ago

and then they become undead too! so not only do you have infinite lifespan, you have an infinite lover too! and if you tire of her (or him), oh well, just bite someone else…

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 5 years ago

o ya simple as that silth, if vampires were real and believed in that method then 1/2 the pop. would be vamps. by now

haha i shortened vampires to vamps. I love it XD

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

My soul mate (if one exists) will most likely be a modern day vampire. ^^

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 5 years ago

panda have you ever read the book twilight

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

No, but it sounds familiar… i think a friend of mine read it. Who's the author?

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 5 years ago

Stephanie Meyer, it a really good book and there are 2 others out now too bt i think you would realy enjoy it

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 5 years ago

I will look into it. thank you

Evilone
Evilone posted over 5 years ago

Vampires are cool.

Salazar'sPrincess
Salazar'sPrincess posted over 5 years ago

Vampire's are the perfection of what man could never be. They're immortal and forever beautiful, yet they are called a sin. It's said god punshied them, but all he did was give the humans a life of perfection. So really, they're more like his pet project. Funny how that works out for the stupid priests that kill them. I'm always on the Vampiers side.

vampgirl1810
vampgirl1810 posted over 5 years ago

Vampires are brilliant! Even though I think it is a little cruel to live forever, I want to be a vampire and I want a vampire 'sweetheart' like Edward Cullen. That would be the best!

FaItHrOcKs
FaItHrOcKs posted over 5 years ago
u need to be carful of wat u think it mit turn out differnt than u thught it wuldWink
Salazar'sPrincess
Salazar'sPrincess posted over 5 years ago

Vampgirl your so wierd. Edward is a pussy! Well, he turns into one. You should go for Jasper or Emmet! They are so much better.

Keariel
Keariel posted over 5 years ago

they are amazing and really misunderstood. who came up with the idea that vampires should be evil???

SolarEquinox
SolarEquinox posted over 5 years ago

Probably the people who started the tales about them, way back in the early centuries (anywhere from the 11th to the 16th, from what I understand). Vampires, in the tales, were avatars of suicide victims, witches, evil beings, or, hell, they could have been corpses possessed by evil spirits or maybe some nice normal person who was bitten by a vampire.

 None of that screams "I'm not evil, I'm just misunderstood" to me.

Crimson_Tears2003
Crimson_Tears2003 posted over 5 years ago

Omg, after reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, I am addicted to vampires. I NEED THEM in my everyday life.

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