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ok big rant now:

I love vampires as much as any sparkler hater, but people before you defend them please, please, please be well versed in the myth. Don't act like a know it all and then shell out false info. If you don't know, thats okay, but seriously don't pretend otherwise.

first off, the first vamp wasn't Dracula, wasn't Lord Byron's the Vampyre, AND IT DEFINITELY ISN"T A TWILIGHT VAMPIRE!!!

first sign(or at least, the earliest mention) of the myth was Slavic. NOT Romanian(that was ol' Vlad the impailer)

they were hideous and usually believed to rise from the bodies of suicide victims, criminals, or evil sorcerers. They drank blood for sustenance and did not care wether it was human or animal.
Staking came up cause people believed that if they put a stake through the heart straight through to the ground they would pin them down and keep them from rising.
As for the religious aspects of it, it was the early 8-10 centuries, that should go without saying more.

anywho, rant over going to bed

Edit: Some new info has been given to me by the lovely , about vampires in Bulgarian folklore. Enlighten yourselves!

"Most often vampires are death people, buried not properly, and you may have heard of it. Or if they have committed suicide or have been killed violently. Also, very old people and people, who have been living immoral life, can become vampires according to the believes. As well-women, died while giving birth, dead born children or died before being converted. Vampire can be too a ghost of ancestor in a particular family. Some people have been build into buildings and that is one more variation of a vampire.

As for the description of the vampires, it depends on the function they have in particular moment or the way they develop with the age. The young vampire is fragile and appears like a shadow. He disturbs the peace in the house making different noises.When he grows up, he looks like a bellow, has weight and is strangle the people, while they are sleeping at night.Later, the vampire turns into an animal and is throwing down objects and stuff and its drinking blood.One year after his appearance the vampire finally looks like a human and can even marry and have children.

So, after one year vampire looks like a human again and can live with the other people like before.He can transform into cats, goats and such.Most often the legends are about vampiric males but they can also be women and children.

What is a vampire-devil soul.It is believed that the devil turns vampires into bellows, as I stated earlier.Vampire is a ghost, consisting of flesh with no bones,the man`s soul with the same image, a dead man`soul, upon which a shadow has been fallen before his funeral.

How the vampire looks like?-The vampire is invisible.He is like a shadow,a passing shadow, as if wind is passing.He can looks like a piece of a fabric, which is folding and unfolding.Odd, but he can appear also like a fire, or in the woods can be seen like a flaming balls,jumping from tree to tree.Bellow, full with blood, is one more of the possible looks of the vampire.He can be like a bagpipes, full with blood and rolling on the ground like a sphere.

Vampire can be something big, like a bull`s head,hairy,which is running and screaming.Big fearful creature with sharp nails and big polished eyes.As a pig`s or ox`s head,rolling.The vampire can transform into the animal, happened to jump over his grave-cat, chicken,dog ,donkey, goat, white horse, white cow, ox, deer,mouse goose frog snake black butterfly.It can be bigger or smaller, appearing like a human and then to disappear, as if sinking in the ground

What can cause someone to turn into a vampire-as already mentioned shadow falling on the dead man before the funeral or jumped over from a man or animal, most often cat.There are really many ways-to be born with the help of the Devil, to be cursed to become a vampire.

So, the vision of the vampire in my area is quite different.And I would say more scary, especially because the vampire is invisible or is like a shadow.More of the things he is doing-he is stealing stuff from other houses and bring it into the house he was living.It can be seen only the moving object.People, born in Saturday, and animals can recognize the vampire.My personal opinion is that these animals are mostly cats, for cats have very sharp senses and you have heard maybe, that principally they are sensing invisible forces.

The vampire can return to his wife and lie to her some things when asked how it is so he returns.And the vampire has fear from salt also.Something very interesting-old people in my area were claiming, that when the electricity has came into their homes, the vampires have disappeared.Or rather the superstitions have disappeared."

Description
ok big rant now:

I love vampires as much as any sparkler hater, but people before you defend them please, please, please be well versed in the myth. Don't act like a know it all and then shell out false info. If you don't know, thats okay, but seriously don't pretend otherwise.

first off, the first vamp wasn't Dracula, wasn't Lord Byron's the Vampyre, AND IT DEFINITELY ISN"T A TWILIGHT VAMPIRE!!!

first sign(or at least, the earliest mention) of the myth was Slavic. NOT Romanian(that was ol' Vlad the impailer)

they were hideous and usually believed to rise from the bodies of suicide victims, criminals, or evil sorcerers. They drank blood for sustenance and did not care wether it was human or animal.
Staking came up cause people believed that if they put a stake through the heart straight through to the ground they would pin them down and keep them from rising.
As for the religious aspects of it, it was the early 8-10 centuries, that should go without saying more.

anywho, rant over going to bed

Edit: Some new info has been given to me by the lovely , about vampires in Bulgarian folklore. Enlighten yourselves!

"Most often vampires are death people, buried not properly, and you may have heard of it. Or if they have committed suicide or have been killed violently. Also, very old people and people, who have been living immoral life, can become vampires according to the believes. As well-women, died while giving birth, dead born children or died before being converted. Vampire can be too a ghost of ancestor in a particular family. Some people have been build into buildings and that is one more variation of a vampire.

As for the description of the vampires, it depends on the function they have in particular moment or the way they develop with the age. The young vampire is fragile and appears like a shadow. He disturbs the peace in the house making different noises.When he grows up, he looks like a bellow, has weight and is strangle the people, while they are sleeping at night.Later, the vampire turns into an animal and is throwing down objects and stuff and its drinking blood.One year after his appearance the vampire finally looks like a human and can even marry and have children.

So, after one year vampire looks like a human again and can live with the other people like before.He can transform into cats, goats and such.Most often the legends are about vampiric males but they can also be women and children.

What is a vampire-devil soul.It is believed that the devil turns vampires into bellows, as I stated earlier.Vampire is a ghost, consisting of flesh with no bones,the man`s soul with the same image, a dead man`soul, upon which a shadow has been fallen before his funeral.

How the vampire looks like?-The vampire is invisible.He is like a shadow,a passing shadow, as if wind is passing.He can looks like a piece of a fabric, which is folding and unfolding.Odd, but he can appear also like a fire, or in the woods can be seen like a flaming balls,jumping from tree to tree.Bellow, full with blood, is one more of the possible looks of the vampire.He can be like a bagpipes, full with blood and rolling on the ground like a sphere.

Vampire can be something big, like a bull`s head,hairy,which is running and screaming.Big fearful creature with sharp nails and big polished eyes.As a pig`s or ox`s head,rolling.The vampire can transform into the animal, happened to jump over his grave-cat, chicken,dog ,donkey, goat, white horse, white cow, ox, deer,mouse goose frog snake black butterfly.It can be bigger or smaller, appearing like a human and then to disappear, as if sinking in the ground

What can cause someone to turn into a vampire-as already mentioned shadow falling on the dead man before the funeral or jumped over from a man or animal, most often cat.There are really many ways-to be born with the help of the Devil, to be cursed to become a vampire.

So, the vision of the vampire in my area is quite different.And I would say more scary, especially because the vampire is invisible or is like a shadow.More of the things he is doing-he is stealing stuff from other houses and bring it into the house he was living.It can be seen only the moving object.People, born in Saturday, and animals can recognize the vampire.My personal opinion is that these animals are mostly cats, for cats have very sharp senses and you have heard maybe, that principally they are sensing invisible forces.

The vampire can return to his wife and lie to her some things when asked how it is so he returns.And the vampire has fear from salt also.Something very interesting-old people in my area were claiming, that when the electricity has came into their homes, the vampires have disappeared.Or rather the superstitions have disappeared."