Mental disorder
There have been a number of murderers who performed seemingly vampiric rituals upon their victims. Serial killers Peter Kurten and Richard Trenton Chase were both called “vampires” in the tabloids
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Origins of vampires
Despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th-century southeastern Europe.
Belief in such legends was so pervasive at this time that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.
Many theories have been proposed to explain the cultural roots of vampire lore. Comments from scholars range from premature burial to the early ignorance of the body’s decomposition cycle after death.
There are also number of real medical conditions that might result in vampiric behavior or appearance.
Last but not least, vampires are often associated with occult rituals and paranormal experiences where blood is the metaphore of something more subtile.
Sleep paralysis
Symptoms Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that
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Natural-born vampires
Frequently people become revenants through no fault of their own, as when they are conceived during a holy period, according to the Church calendar, or when they are the illegitimate
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How to become a vampire
Hollywood has focused the propagation of vampirism through the vampire bite or vampire kiss. However, the prevalent mythological routes are usually a sort of curse or predestination. The bite The
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Paranormal
The common experience of out-of-the-body travel or astral projection has sometimes been associated with visits to other individuals, as well as contacts with frightening elementals on the astral plane. Some
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Psychology
In his 1931 treatise On the Nightmare, Ernest Jones noted that vampires are symbolic of several unconscious drives and defense mechanisms. Emotions such as love, guilt, and hate fuel the
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Medical conditions
Many humans have been accused of being vampires over the centuries due to the fact that their physical characteristics resembled the traits of these blood-sucking monsters. However, modern science has
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