Who created vampires?
Hi! I found something about this : Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead 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, markedly different from today’s gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire lavirtual http://lvr.no-ip.
From what I’ve read…I’m betting it comes from the ways in which people would have nightmares about loved ones that have died…and I bet that made them go dig up dead people to “check” on them. When a body decomposes, the skin shrivels up and recedes, making the hair look as if it has grown, and also making it look like the teeth got longer, since your gums shrivel as well. Also when the body decomposes, gasses and fluids make the belly swell (looking well fed) and are expelled up through the throat and around the mouth, making it look like someone has been eating blood. Hence, blood sucking vampires with long pointy teeth….I don’t know if that’s how the myth began, but I can see where people back then would think that way.
