Ok heres the thing I AM OBSESSED WITH VAMPIRES so give me any thing you know about them...?

Question

Ok heres the thing I AM OBSESSED WITH VAMPIRES so give me any thing you know about them...?

Answer 1

erm they are men or women. normally a myth. they suck blood. they love munching ******. erm thats about it

Answer 2

In Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse which was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead

Answer 3

TWILIGHT BOOK!******* FIERCE<STRONG<AND HAWTTT!

Answer 4

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.[2] 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.

It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, though there are several elements common to many European legends. Vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open.[21] It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, and nails may have grown somewhat, though in general fangs were not a feature.[22]

Other attributes varied greatly from culture to culture; some vampires, such as those found in Transylvanian tales, were gaunt, pale, and had long fingernails, while those from Bulgaria only had one nostril,[23] and Bavarian vampires slept with thumbs crossed and one eye open.[24] Moravian vampires only attacked while naked, and those of Albanian folklore wore high-heeled shoes.[24] As stories of vampires spread throughout the globe to the Americas and elsewhere, so did the varied and sometimes bizarre descriptions of them: Mexican vampires had a bare skull instead of a head,[24] Brazilian vampires had furry feet and vampires from the Rocky Mountains only sucked blood with their noses and from the victim's ears.[24] Common attributes were sometimes described, such as red hair.[24] Some were reported to be able to transform into bats, rats, dogs, wolves, spiders and even moths.[25] From these various legends, works of literature such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the influences of historical bloodthirsty figures such as Gilles de Rais, Elizabeth Bathory, and Vlad Ţepeş, the vampire developed into the modern stereotype.[20][24]

Creating vampires

The causes of vampiric generation were many and varied in original folklore. In Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse which was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead.[26] A body with a wound which had not been treated with boiling water was also at risk. In Russian folklore, vampires were said to have once been witches or people who had rebelled against the Church while they were alive.[24]

Cultural practices often arose that were intended to prevent a recently deceased loved one from turning into an undead revenant. Burying a corpse upside-down was widespread, as was placing earthly objects, such as scythes or sickles,[27] near the grave to satisfy any demons entering the body or to appease the dead so that it would not wish to arise from its coffin. This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore. This tradition persisted in modern Greek folklore about the vrykolakas, in which a wax cross and piece of pottery with the inscription "Jesus Christ conquers" were placed on the corpse to prevent the body from becoming a vampire.[28] Other methods commonly practised in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains.[29] Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.[30]

Identifying vampires

Many elaborate rituals were used to identify a vampire. One method of finding a vampire's grave involved leading a virgin boy through a graveyard or church grounds on a virgin stallion — the horse would supposedly balk at the grave in question.[24] Generally a black horse was required, though in Albania it should be white.[31] Holes appearing in the earth over a grave were taken as a sign of vampirism.[32]

Corpses thought to be vampires were generally described as having a healthier appearance than expected, plump and showing little or no signs of decomposition.[33] In some cases, when suspected graves were opened, villagers even described the corpse as having fresh blood from a victim all over its face.[34] Evidence that a vampire was active in a given locality included death of cattle, sheep, relatives or neighbors. Folkloric vampires could also make their presence felt by engaging in minor poltergeist-like activity, such as hurling stones on roofs or moving household objects,[35] and pressing on people in their sleep.[36]

Answer 5

Here's something.... They don't exist!

Answer 6

Int eh Twilight Books;; THEY ARE FUKKING HOT!!!!

have u read them?

Answer 7

1) They aren't real.

...And then the list ends there.

Answer 8

Read Anne Rice books and paint stuff, very vampiric. I AM A VAMPIRE. hehehe fabulous.

Answer 9

Well for one vampires aren't real. But.... they are people who act like vampires because they think it's cool.

So fact number one:vampires dont' exist.

and fact two:I despise people who try to fit in by drinking blood.

Answer 10

Vampire (Homo-Nocturnus)

The Embrace: How a vampire becomes a vampire. Generally only humans become vampires, but it has been noted of other species becoming vampuric.  To make a vampire, one needs a vampire. A vampire bites a human, and drains them almost completely of blood. Then, some of the vampire's blood must be passed on to the human. This is called the embrace.  The vampires blood enters the humans bloodstream and the following occurs.

The Change: During the change the human basically dies. Their major organs (except for their heart) shrivel up and turn to dust. Blood replaces all of the liquids in the body. So, if a vampire cries, its tears or blood. Blood also replaces the s***n of male vampires, so they would ejaculate blood. Vampires cannot reproduce or have offspring. They can only create new vampires.

Powers or Dark Gifts: Over time vampires will become more powerful. The older the vampire, the more powerful it becomes. There are various levels to vampires, the most powerful being the Patriarch vampire (or Matriarch for a female) these are the highest and most powerful class of vampires and it requires life in the thousands of years, not hundreds, to attain.

Vampires gain powers such as psychic or psionic abilities, the ability to use telepathy, telekenisis, and other such powers of the mind.  They can also gain powers such as turning into the form of a wolf, or a bat.  Some say they can even become as mist, or become invisible.

Weaknesses:  Vampires are weak to sunlight. Sunlight will burn a vampire's skin, and if they remain in it too long, they will perish. The death is not instantanius, a vampire cought in the sun does not die in seconds, they have time to seek safety.  Some very powerful vampires can protect themselves from the sun.

Stakes through the heart do not kill a vampire despite popular culture. They only paralyze them. The second the stake is removed, the vampire can move again.

Garlic does not repel vampires. Nor do crosses on their own. However, crosses when wielded by someone with true holy reverence can be damaging to a vampire and ward them away. (So for example, a very devout priest with a cross can repel a vampire. An atheist holding a cross cannot). It is not just crosses. Someone with conviction can repel a vampire with any religious symbol.

Holy water, if it was truly blessed by someone with devout conviction, can burn similar to fire.

Vampires are weak to fire.

To Kill a Vampire: Vampires are similar to the Lazarus - they must be decapitated, their body and head burned seperatly.  The ash of the head must be burried in hollowed ground - such as a cemetary, or church property. The ash of the body must either be sprinkled in running water, or be burried in hollowed grown that is across running water from the head, as Vampires cannot cross running water, it repells them (why is unknown, at least to me).

Even if this is done, a Vampire can still come back.  If someone were to manage to collect all the ash from the body and dry it out and return it to the head, the Vampire can rebuild itself. There is no way to perminantly kill a vampire so it can never come back - however the above method is the best for ensuring that it stays dead.

Answer 11

vampires dont like garlic and they dont have d!icks

(actually im not sure about the 2nd fact)

Answer 12

the myth was originally from Transylvania

Answer 13

hey!!! maybe u should play monstersgame.. really fun ;)

Answer 14

Okay.  They're fiction.  That's all I know about them.

Answer 15

They don't exist.  The more you try to find out about them the less you really seem to know.  It's like trying to catch smoke.

Not really surprising.  It's all a lot of superstitious folklore that is best forgotten - or indulged by watching old Hammer horror films and having a laugh.

Leave "vampirology" to nerds who like to study ancient languages and collect old fairy tales and legends, or to frightfully erudite scholars like the late Dr C. G. Jung who did some brilliant analyses of the inner psychological meanings of ancient myths and legends.  Brilliant stuff, but heavy reading, even for the terribly brainy.  Not stuff fro the faint hearted academically speaking.

In short, get another hobby.  Trainspotting?

Answer 16

Sunlight makes me prickle and itch.

Answer 17

people who are obsessed with them need  mental help.

Answer 18

vampires are inspired by the real person vlad the impaler.he was a king but he was known for being cruel,torturing people,murdering millions of people.

Answer 19

they don't exist

Answer 20

They come from Cleveland, Ohio....most are Republicans....oh....and they love Jiffy-Pop popcorn....sound ridiculous?....so is the existance of vampires...get a life dude....slowly....carefully...back away from the keyboard...

Answer 21

They were based of some guy called vlad the impaler. I think he was from Lithuania and Ottomans or Turks came and they had a little biff.

Answer 22

There's really quite a lot to give, so could you be a bit more specific? Like email me questions you are uncertain about? If not, hope you find the answers you're looking for.