Future Vampires
Scientists predict that in the next twenty years, they will have figured out how to keep us alive and young for 150-200 years. What will this longer life span mean
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History of vampires
It is hard to tell if vampires were “discovered” often prior to written records, or if an obscure legend found root and flourished with the written word. Certainly the vampire’s fame and popularity as a literary and film figure has grown since that time. It is only through putting away a modern notion of the vampire and studying sources that were will be an answer to where the vampire originated and how it flourished.
Although blood-sucking creatures have been recorded in most cultures, 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.
The Vampire Timeline
6500 B.C. The tomb of the Sphinx is erected in Giza, Egypt 2000 B.C. The early Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh clearly described vampires as the Ekimmu. 31 Jesus is claimed
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The True American Vampire
The vampire we all know and love today has been created and refined over the years by Hollywood. Movies such as Dracula, The Lost Boys, The Hunger, and Queen of
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Modern Vampires
Vampire belief still persists across the globe. While some cultures preserve their original traditions, the modern notion of a vampire tends to be influenced, even for those who believe in
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Consumption in America
During the late 18th and 19th centuries the belief in vampires was widespread in parts of New England, particularly in Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut. Rhode Island had the dubious
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The Rise of the Vampire
The attention given to vampirism coincided (and maybe contributed to) a rising interest in gothic literature, first in Germany and later (during the last decades of the eighteenth century) in
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The 18th-Century Vampire Controversy
Despite being called the Age of Enlightenment, the belief in vampires increased dramatically, resulting in a mass hysteria throughout most of Europe. It was around 1730 that the declining Ottoman
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The Middle Age Vampire
Many of the myths surrounding vampires originated during the medieval period. The 12th-century English historians and chroniclers Walter Map and William of Newburgh recorded accounts of revenants, though records in
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