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Dying to be a "Twilight" vampire? You can look like one for the movie opening today. The movie, from the novel by Stephenie Meyer, tells the story of vampires who stray from the typical stereotype. "Twilight" vampires are beautiful, angelic creatures with colorful eyes and a body scent which attracts their human prey. If you would... more »
Vampires have been popular in novels and the movies for many centuries. Our fascination with vampires began in the 1700s, when the bodies of suspected vampires were dug up and destroyed. One of the first artistic references to the vampire was in the poem "The Vampire" in 1748. Bram Stoker immortalized the vampire in his novel... more »
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Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures regardless of them being undead or a living person.Levkievskaja> "Cremene89">Créméné, Mythologie du Vampire, p. 89.Bunson, Vampire Encyclopedia, p. 219. Словник символів, Потапенко О.І., Дмитренко М.К., Потапенко Г.І. та ін., 1997. online article.
In folkloric tales, 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. This is markedly different from modern fictional portrayals of gaunt, pale vampires beginning in the early 19th century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures and according to speculation by literary historian Brian Frost that the "belief in vampires and bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself," and may go back to "prehistoric times,"Frost, Brian J. The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature, Univ. of Wisconsin Press (1989) p. 3., the term vampire was not popularized 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,"SU223">Silver & Ursini, The Vampire Film, pp. 22–23. although local variants were also known by different names, such as vampir (вампир) in Serbia and Bulgaria, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.
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."SU378"/> Howeve read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire
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