Do/ have vampires existed?

Question

ok so im not talking Buffy style vamps or ones who cant stand crosses/wooden stakes/cnt go out in daylight/kill viciously etc

after reading a few Immorality Bites books-tongue in cheek modern day of people who annoyingly get bitten by vamps and therefor become 1. yet dont change really as a person, only their health changes.

theyre alive, their heart beats,tolerate sunlight, bit pale etc but really theyre no diffrent to who they were before except need blood. most even buy blood rather than *rather grossly* neckin someone.

so 2 me this sounds like 'vampirism' is nothing but a blood disease. they need a fresh supply of blood as theirs doesnt produce properly. lots of serious illnesses mean regular blood transfusions. paleness- aneamia- lack of iron...The ability to stay looking youthful? surely 1day someone will find a gene/dna etc that allows ur body to reproduce new cells that do not age in appearance+health!

mayb our fancy vamps r based on sumthin much simpler

Answer 1

Baby, Im a vampire, I know you are cute and will definetely sink my canines into your beautiful silky neck!!! LOL.

No, Im not a psycho...

Answer 2

Well... you kinda answered ur own question. ^_^ Yes vampirism is an actual disease, but there are people who just like to have blood.

Answer 3

No, there is no such thing as this. There are people who suffer from a condition similar to Leukemia in which they can no longer produce blood cells. It is called dysplastic anemia and is life threatening. The only treatment for it is blood transfusions, done in a medical facility of course intravenously, or a bone marrow transplant. Not fun.

And vampire myths did not start with Countess Bathory. She was not dubbed a "vampire" until much later, and it's likely that a lot of what she was accused of was hype.

Answer 4

well, i've never seen one b4, but if some ppl lilke blood,  they call them blood freak not vampire. (i think)

Answer 5

Evidently (according to a history channel program), the myth may have started with Elizabeth Bathory. Who would kill virgins and bath in/drink their blood. A very notorious serial killer, a long time ago.

Answer 6

Unless anyway has any simptons of a vampire they might be or thy're very senstive... I'm not sure though..

Answer 7

I do belive in vampires so i am going to give a more possitive answer.

I like to think of vampires as humans. Its just sterotyps like to belive that they have white skin and wear a black cape and drink enyones blood when ever.

But i think that vampires can look like normal people too.

Like if you or me got bitten we would still have the same personaltiy just we can not go into sunlight and drink blood that is about it! And i do not belive that the crosses can kill a vampire even a preist could be a vampire I belive!

Answer 8

Vampires don't exist they are folklore

Answer 9

that sounds like porphyria to me. people who suffer need to regular blood supplies, as they cannot tolerate too much sunlight, they are very pale and have a major lack of iron in the blood.

psi-vampire, as we are known (not the best of terms, but it will have to suffice) feed off other people's energy. this is not a deluded state of mind, and can be controlled yby the person to a degree, but it's just something that. we drain others around us and become energized, leaving those we feed off feeling very tired and exhausted.

then there are jus some people who have a blood fetish (it's just for fun!)

Answer 10

i think what we need to bear in mind is the fact that whaatever fantasy, no matter how outrageous, has to have some basis in fact. its like, imagine an animal that doesnt exist. obviously whatever you think of is fictional, but every aspect will be based on animals we have seen and know to be real ( head of a dog, wings of a bird, etc), so the idea of a vampire had to start somewhere.

i remember seeing a programme trying to find out if they are real or not, and they were on about a transylvanian dutchess who thought that human blood could restore her youth. she basically got her servants to abduct young girls, who would be brought back to her castle, and while the dutchess was lying in a tub, the girl would be brought in, held upside down over the tub and her throat cut, thus covering her in blood. i think that this might explain one aspect of the vamire myth, but the other aspects escape me.

Answer 11

It sounds like you answered your own question. But most of the info I can tell you relates to psi-vampires. I can give you a site for blood vampires. The official term for the being you are describing is sanguinarius, or "sang" vampire. I don't think everyone who believes they are one is correct, but with so many people claiming to be one at least a few people must be the real thing. The main problem is that the information on sangs conflicts from site to site, esp. when concerning longevity & aging, which undermines their authenticity.

Answer 12

Vampires have, and do exist.

Though that book does sound like it has a bit more of a grasp on vampirism than most modern books, it still has one important misconception. You cannot become a vampire by being bitten. You are born with it. You don't die and come back to life, and you are certainly not a different person. It's like puberty.

The idea of it being a blood disease is slightly insulting. We aren't a disease, we are a species. We may show a few of the symptoms of anemia, but other changes occur that anemia can't explain.

Vampires always have, and always will be around. And we will probably be just as misunderstood in 100 years as we are now.

Answer 13

Yes. When people were buried immediately after dying, they would swell, as if engourged with blood and driving the steak would release the pressure and make it appear as if they were moaning and still alive.

Answer 14

hi,

they dont exist.