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“Throughout the shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both.”
Montague Summers
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 since shed some light on the vampire myth, highlighting three medical conditions that may well explain why some unfortunate souls were mistaken for these dark … Read more
Since H.G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” in 1894, there has been many writings and movies exploring the possibility of a space alien taking over a human body in order to live off the life energies of others. Those space aliens are some kind of parasites that control our mind and draw our … Read more
Most historic accounts of undead vampires end with,or at least include, the corpse or corpses being exhumed and found to be in such a condition that the allegations of vampirism seem to be confirmed. The corpse is then of course treated in such a way that the threat is removed. In quite a number of … Read more
Lilith, according to Hebrew Jewish texts, was the first woman created for Adam. After his failure, she was allowed to stay out on her own, as a witch, mother of all demons. She was allowed to kill infants up until their naming day (7 days for girls and 8 days for boys), unless they had … Read more
Vampirism has been described as “a corpse that comes to the attention of the populace in times of crisis.”. Those times of crisis are mostly times of death and suffering such a wars and worse, epidemics. Folkloric vampirism has typically been associated with a series of deaths due to unindentifiable or mysterious illnesses, usually within … Read more
In 2005, Costas Efthimiou, a physics professor from University of Central Florida whose work attempt to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, such as vampires and zombies, made the headline by claiming that vampires are a mathematical impossibility. In Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality (PDF), Efthimiou and fellow Sohang Gandhi use math and physics … Read more
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 the Damned have continually fed the legend of the vampire as a desirable, beautiful creature of the night. However, there are no legends, regardless of … Read more
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 it, by the well known fictional image of the vampire as it occurs in films and literature, rather than by folkloric prototypes. Beyond the vampyre … Read more