What Is A Vampire
They literally will make you walk in your sleep
The myth portrays the vampire as a dead person who rises from his neatly tucked away coffin at night to seek his victim from the confines of a comfortable sleep, complete with Victorian windows flying open unaided.
The Legend started with Bram Stokers’s novel Dracula and soon the creative lore of legend added to the Vampire Myth the ability to fly and turn into a vampire bat; a lust for very bodaciously-endowed, beautiful women as victims who then become children of the night, aka vampires, upon being bitten.
Vampires in movie lore, fear of the symbol of the Christian cross; the repelling power of garlic, garlic flowers and even a garlic encrusted pizza.
A vampire can only be killed by direct exposure to sunlight or by a wooden stake driven through the heart.
The myth started loosely on the story of the 15th century warrior, Vlad the Impaler.
Bram Stoker did not base his vampire Count on Vlad the Impaler. He just borrowed Vlad’s nickname (Dracula) for the vampire figure he had already conceived.
Legends of bloodsucking creatures who lurk the darkness are found in many cultures throughout history.
