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I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN VAMPIRE MOVIES... THE BLADE MOVIES, UNDERWORLD.... AND SUCH SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SEE WHAT INFORMATION I COULD FIND THAT WAS INTERESTING REGAURDING VAMPIRES.....
~Vampire legends date as far back as ancient Egypt and Sumeria
~Folkloric vampires of Eastern Europe especially the Balkans did not have fangs and were described as having ruddy and bloated appearances. They were afforded the gaunt, pale look by novelists such as Bram Stoker.
~Vlad the Impaler is credited as the inspiration for Dracula. Vlad was guilty of sadistic torture of his enemies, including impaling but as far as is known he never drank his victims' blood.
~In the 16th century, Countess Bathory of Romania slit her maidservants' throats and drank their blood with the mistaken notion that it would give her longevity and it is alleged that this gave rise to the blood drinking activities of vampires in fiction
~In Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1973 a Polish expatriate, Demetrius Myiciura died from choking on a clove of garlic. He was found in his home surrounded by salt, garlic and crucifixes all reputed to stave off vampires.
~There is also a report that another Polish man, Jan Dbworski, died in similar circumstances in Stoke on Trent but in 1966
~Nicolae Ceausescu, communist dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989 was portrayed by protesters against his regime as a vampire
~There are people who genuinely believe themselves to be vampires. In 2002 in Edinburgh, a Scot tried to convince a jury, unsuccessfully, that he believed himself to be a vampire and that it was the reason for his murder of a friend.
~In Cuba in 1977 there were reports of goats being attacked and drained of their blood. The creature attacking them was called a "Chupacabra". It is still not known what the creature was.
~'Nosferatu' was the first ever vampire movie that followed the "Dracula" storyline. It was released in 1922, silent and black and white. The first ever vampire movie is believed to be the German silent "Nachte des Grauens" aka "Night of Terror" released in 1916 and featured vampire-like beings.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.socyberty.com/Folklore/10-Cool-Facts-About-Vampires.51310)
TOP 18 VAMPIRE MOVIES I RECOMMEND SEEING IF YOU HAVEN'T
1. Twilight
2. Underworld and Underworld Evolution
3. Blade, Blade II and Blade Trinity
4. Lost Boys: The Tribe
5. 30 Days Of Night
6. Bram Stoker's: Dracula
7. The Lost Boys
8. From Dusk Till Dawn
9. Queen Of The Damned
10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
11. Vampires
12. Interview With The Vampire
13. Ultraviolet
14. Vampire In Brooklun
15. Dracula 2000
16. Salems Lot
17. Nosferatu
18. Fright Night
QUESTIONS I FOUND...SOME ARE INTERESTING AND OTHERS ARE JUST USELESS INFO ...WHICH HEY ISNT THAT WHAT THESE BLOGS ARE ALL ABOUT?? HAHHAH
Do Vampires Still Exist?
There is little tangible evidence available on the existence of
Vampires, and undue weight has to be placed on circumstancial evidence.
1. Every occurrence of human combustion - especially 'spontaneous'
combustion - needs thorough examination. In practice, this is patchy and
details often emerge too late for firm conclusions to be drawn.
A trickle of reports has arisen in Eastern and Central Europe, most provided by professional Vampire hunters. Several isolated
reports have come from urban areas in the USA - 50% of these in New York.
2. Vampire-Typical injury reports (neck bites, severe bleeding from small wounds), also need investigation. This is almost impossible, as no health service categorises wounds in a useful way - and victims often go to great lengths to disguise or deny such injury.
3. Exsanguination deaths and missing bodies: A significant number of such
events have occurred in key locations; reports of body snatching have continued, some with no evidence of external assistance, and few with any possible motive for such theft.
4. Vampire sightings have increased in recent years; this may be in part due to unwelcome and inaccurate televisual displays - a badly educated public is in increasing danger, and compounds this by false reports
Verification is difficult, but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence, and individual experiences, to assert that not only do Vampires still exist - but they are thriving.
Is anyone still investigating Vampires; Where?
Most sightings, and indeed most legends, still arise in Central Europe;
there is little doubt that the species arose in this area, and was probably
confined there until about 150 years ago. Recent evidence suggest that the
anonymity of large cities has attracted an fast-growing network of vampire
communities, attracted by a transient, dislocated population, as well as an
active nocturnal life. Most serious researchers are at work in the great
cities of the western world, with just a few in the Carpathian Mountains.
Do Vampires Turn To Dust When Staked?
In a word, No. This device, popularized by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was actually a television convenience devised by Joss Whedon to evade the need to justify a stack of corpses littering the graveyards.
Staking actually starts an incendiary process, likely to end in a pile of fine white ash, with some boney remnants.
Do Crucifixes Kill Vampires?
A wooden crucifix could cause serious superficial burns, and, given enough time, could prove fatal. But this is a chemical effect, not a religious one.
Many vampires are of devout Christian, Central European descent, and a crucifix could well trigger severe guilt feelings; in some cases, self-loathing. But not fatality.
Do Vampires Fear Water?
Yes; A vampire really is an incendiary device waiting to be detonated (check the theory), and water, even steam, presents a real risk to the vampire.
Can Vampires Fly?
Only if they get a ticket. Vampires have been shown turning into bats, wafting effortlesly upward, even leaping out of windows with a 'bat flight' soundtrack to suggest flight. It's all hokum; an exhausted vampire could not fly across Los Angeles and look fresh afterward, any more than I can - whatever Nick Knight might suggest. And why a vampire should even want to turn into a swarm of bats, as suggested by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, beats me.
Vampires can probably utilize stored energy better than normal folk, and a vertical leap - or rapid escape from pursuit - might suggest flight. But it's not.
Are Vampires Evil?
Not necessarily; vampires just "are"; as a lion is not evil when it kills a zebra, so a vampire is not evil for feeding off a person; living creatures do what they must to survive. The consensus is, however, that for the most part, Vampires are "not very nice".
However, like the fox killing all the chickens in the hen house, rather than just the one, some Vampires are particularly unpleasant - and as they have intelligence, those that choose such a lifestyle are probably evil. Just as some humans are evil ...
Have Vampires Evolved?
If Vampyrism began somewhere in Eastern Europe in the1400's, and given the extremity of their physiology, it would be logical to assume that if they have survived this long that they may have evolved in order to survive.
Long-lived creatures are doomed to evolve more slowly, whatever the
pressures on them; a longer life means fewer generations, slower
reproduction and so fewer opportunities for evolutionary change.
Parasitic organisms might appear to have the freedom to reproduce at will;
but most are subject to limitations, in some cases a complex life cycle,
involving more than one host species, in others a simple population
pressure.
Vampires who allow their community to grow too large risk discovery and
destruction; individuals and small groups might get by for ages - especially
in isolated communities. The act of vampirification creates a potential
competitor, as well as a blood relative - a community that can support one
vampire's appetites might not be able to support two; from such instability
mobs, riots and flaming torches are born!
How Do Vampires Survive?
The advance of technology must pose a threat to the vampire; bureaucracy, finger print identification and security photography may force vampires to finally decide whether to risk life within the 'normal' community - or to survive in the netherworld of the drug and crime community, illegal immigrants and the homeless: they must be tempted to want the advantages of each, without the disadvantages of either. I suspect a fear of the tightly-ordered modern world will make the decision for them.
Long life brings opportunities and knowledge; a stable community has the
chance - and the need - to plan for the long term. Legends of lonely castles and huge empty estates are probably close to the truth.
The modern equivalent would be the Swiss bank account, the off-shore trust ... but still an emphasis on property, the safest deposit of them all - and the one vital to the Vampire life style.
The vampire down on its luck would be at the mercy of everything life could throw at it - including sunlight - and would probably not survive for long.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.vampyreverse.com/facts/faq.shtml)
~Vampires : are mythical creatures who try to avoid their own deaths and demise by literally sucking out the blood of their victims. The fear of vampires has been around for a very long time. Indeed there are a number of countries such as: Bulgaria, Russia, the Orient, Babylon and Greece that have been cited as being the origins of the vampire lore. Although there is much anecdotal evidence for the existence of vampires, as yet there appears to be no physical evidence of their being.
~Bram Stoker's Novel Dracula which was based around a 15th century warrior called Vlad the Impaler has served over the years to popularise this mythical creature. With the help of Stoker's book, and film makers alike, a number of variations have been added to the vampire theme. Vampires were no longer the mythical creatures who survived by simply sucking their victims blood, they had evolved into strange creatures that required all manner of methods to repel or kill them.
~Some Hollywood films suggested that vampires could be dispatched in one of the following ways:
- pierce the vampire's heart with a stake
- expose it to sunlight
- fill the vampire's corpse with garlic
- bury the corpse at a four-way crossroads
- sever the head and cremate the remains
- form a cross with the arms over the chest
- entwine thorny vines over the corpse to ensure it cannot walk again.
~The symbol of the Christian cross was also supposed to help to repel vampires although it would not kill them.
~Today the chupacabra is one of the more well known and popular blood suckers of our time.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.paranormality.com/vampires.shtml)
HOPEFULLY I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FINDS VAMPIRE MOVIES PRETTY KICK ASS.....?
OH AND ON ANOTHER NOTE.... WAY RANDOM.... I KNOW... UMM I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS.. THESE OLD MEN CAN STILL ROCK OUT.... I LOVE THIS SONG... AND THEY NEVER GET OLD!!!
WHO AGREES WITH ME HERE???
MUCH LOVE.. TALK SOON... AND THANKS FOR ALL THE CHRISTMAS WISHES.. I HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON HOWEVER IT IS THAT YOU ARE CELEBRATING!!!
OXOXOXOXOX
XOXOXOXOXOXO
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN VAMPIRE MOVIES... THE BLADE MOVIES, UNDERWORLD.... AND SUCH SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SEE WHAT INFORMATION I COULD FIND THAT WAS INTERESTING REGAURDING VAMPIRES.....
~Vampire legends date as far back as ancient Egypt and Sumeria
~Folkloric vampires of Eastern Europe especially the Balkans did not have fangs and were described as having ruddy and bloated appearances. They were afforded the gaunt, pale look by novelists such as Bram Stoker.
~Vlad the Impaler is credited as the inspiration for Dracula. Vlad was guilty of sadistic torture of his enemies, including impaling but as far as is known he never drank his victims' blood.
~In the 16th century, Countess Bathory of Romania slit her maidservants' throats and drank their blood with the mistaken notion that it would give her longevity and it is alleged that this gave rise to the blood drinking activities of vampires in fiction
~In Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1973 a Polish expatriate, Demetrius Myiciura died from choking on a clove of garlic. He was found in his home surrounded by salt, garlic and crucifixes all reputed to stave off vampires.
~There is also a report that another Polish man, Jan Dbworski, died in similar circumstances in Stoke on Trent but in 1966
~Nicolae Ceausescu, communist dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989 was portrayed by protesters against his regime as a vampire
~There are people who genuinely believe themselves to be vampires. In 2002 in Edinburgh, a Scot tried to convince a jury, unsuccessfully, that he believed himself to be a vampire and that it was the reason for his murder of a friend.
~In Cuba in 1977 there were reports of goats being attacked and drained of their blood. The creature attacking them was called a "Chupacabra". It is still not known what the creature was.
~'Nosferatu' was the first ever vampire movie that followed the "Dracula" storyline. It was released in 1922, silent and black and white. The first ever vampire movie is believed to be the German silent "Nachte des Grauens" aka "Night of Terror" released in 1916 and featured vampire-like beings.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.socyberty.com/Folklore/10-Cool-Facts-About-Vampires.51310)
TOP 18 VAMPIRE MOVIES I RECOMMEND SEEING IF YOU HAVEN'T
1. Twilight
2. Underworld and Underworld Evolution
3. Blade, Blade II and Blade Trinity
4. Lost Boys: The Tribe
5. 30 Days Of Night
6. Bram Stoker's: Dracula
7. The Lost Boys
8. From Dusk Till Dawn
9. Queen Of The Damned
10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
11. Vampires
12. Interview With The Vampire
13. Ultraviolet
14. Vampire In Brooklun
15. Dracula 2000
16. Salems Lot
17. Nosferatu
18. Fright Night
QUESTIONS I FOUND...SOME ARE INTERESTING AND OTHERS ARE JUST USELESS INFO ...WHICH HEY ISNT THAT WHAT THESE BLOGS ARE ALL ABOUT?? HAHHAH
Do Vampires Still Exist?
There is little tangible evidence available on the existence of
Vampires, and undue weight has to be placed on circumstancial evidence.
1. Every occurrence of human combustion - especially 'spontaneous'
combustion - needs thorough examination. In practice, this is patchy and
details often emerge too late for firm conclusions to be drawn.
A trickle of reports has arisen in Eastern and Central Europe, most provided by professional Vampire hunters. Several isolated
reports have come from urban areas in the USA - 50% of these in New York.
2. Vampire-Typical injury reports (neck bites, severe bleeding from small wounds), also need investigation. This is almost impossible, as no health service categorises wounds in a useful way - and victims often go to great lengths to disguise or deny such injury.
3. Exsanguination deaths and missing bodies: A significant number of such
events have occurred in key locations; reports of body snatching have continued, some with no evidence of external assistance, and few with any possible motive for such theft.
4. Vampire sightings have increased in recent years; this may be in part due to unwelcome and inaccurate televisual displays - a badly educated public is in increasing danger, and compounds this by false reports
Verification is difficult, but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence, and individual experiences, to assert that not only do Vampires still exist - but they are thriving.
Is anyone still investigating Vampires; Where?
Most sightings, and indeed most legends, still arise in Central Europe;
there is little doubt that the species arose in this area, and was probably
confined there until about 150 years ago. Recent evidence suggest that the
anonymity of large cities has attracted an fast-growing network of vampire
communities, attracted by a transient, dislocated population, as well as an
active nocturnal life. Most serious researchers are at work in the great
cities of the western world, with just a few in the Carpathian Mountains.
Do Vampires Turn To Dust When Staked?
In a word, No. This device, popularized by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was actually a television convenience devised by Joss Whedon to evade the need to justify a stack of corpses littering the graveyards.
Staking actually starts an incendiary process, likely to end in a pile of fine white ash, with some boney remnants.
Do Crucifixes Kill Vampires?
A wooden crucifix could cause serious superficial burns, and, given enough time, could prove fatal. But this is a chemical effect, not a religious one.
Many vampires are of devout Christian, Central European descent, and a crucifix could well trigger severe guilt feelings; in some cases, self-loathing. But not fatality.
Do Vampires Fear Water?
Yes; A vampire really is an incendiary device waiting to be detonated (check the theory), and water, even steam, presents a real risk to the vampire.
Can Vampires Fly?
Only if they get a ticket. Vampires have been shown turning into bats, wafting effortlesly upward, even leaping out of windows with a 'bat flight' soundtrack to suggest flight. It's all hokum; an exhausted vampire could not fly across Los Angeles and look fresh afterward, any more than I can - whatever Nick Knight might suggest. And why a vampire should even want to turn into a swarm of bats, as suggested by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, beats me.
Vampires can probably utilize stored energy better than normal folk, and a vertical leap - or rapid escape from pursuit - might suggest flight. But it's not.
Are Vampires Evil?
Not necessarily; vampires just "are"; as a lion is not evil when it kills a zebra, so a vampire is not evil for feeding off a person; living creatures do what they must to survive. The consensus is, however, that for the most part, Vampires are "not very nice".
However, like the fox killing all the chickens in the hen house, rather than just the one, some Vampires are particularly unpleasant - and as they have intelligence, those that choose such a lifestyle are probably evil. Just as some humans are evil ...
Have Vampires Evolved?
If Vampyrism began somewhere in Eastern Europe in the1400's, and given the extremity of their physiology, it would be logical to assume that if they have survived this long that they may have evolved in order to survive.
Long-lived creatures are doomed to evolve more slowly, whatever the
pressures on them; a longer life means fewer generations, slower
reproduction and so fewer opportunities for evolutionary change.
Parasitic organisms might appear to have the freedom to reproduce at will;
but most are subject to limitations, in some cases a complex life cycle,
involving more than one host species, in others a simple population
pressure.
Vampires who allow their community to grow too large risk discovery and
destruction; individuals and small groups might get by for ages - especially
in isolated communities. The act of vampirification creates a potential
competitor, as well as a blood relative - a community that can support one
vampire's appetites might not be able to support two; from such instability
mobs, riots and flaming torches are born!
How Do Vampires Survive?
The advance of technology must pose a threat to the vampire; bureaucracy, finger print identification and security photography may force vampires to finally decide whether to risk life within the 'normal' community - or to survive in the netherworld of the drug and crime community, illegal immigrants and the homeless: they must be tempted to want the advantages of each, without the disadvantages of either. I suspect a fear of the tightly-ordered modern world will make the decision for them.
Long life brings opportunities and knowledge; a stable community has the
chance - and the need - to plan for the long term. Legends of lonely castles and huge empty estates are probably close to the truth.
The modern equivalent would be the Swiss bank account, the off-shore trust ... but still an emphasis on property, the safest deposit of them all - and the one vital to the Vampire life style.
The vampire down on its luck would be at the mercy of everything life could throw at it - including sunlight - and would probably not survive for long.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.vampyreverse.com/facts/faq.shtml)
~Vampires : are mythical creatures who try to avoid their own deaths and demise by literally sucking out the blood of their victims. The fear of vampires has been around for a very long time. Indeed there are a number of countries such as: Bulgaria, Russia, the Orient, Babylon and Greece that have been cited as being the origins of the vampire lore. Although there is much anecdotal evidence for the existence of vampires, as yet there appears to be no physical evidence of their being.
~Bram Stoker's Novel Dracula which was based around a 15th century warrior called Vlad the Impaler has served over the years to popularise this mythical creature. With the help of Stoker's book, and film makers alike, a number of variations have been added to the vampire theme. Vampires were no longer the mythical creatures who survived by simply sucking their victims blood, they had evolved into strange creatures that required all manner of methods to repel or kill them.
~Some Hollywood films suggested that vampires could be dispatched in one of the following ways:
- pierce the vampire's heart with a stake
- expose it to sunlight
- fill the vampire's corpse with garlic
- bury the corpse at a four-way crossroads
- sever the head and cremate the remains
- form a cross with the arms over the chest
- entwine thorny vines over the corpse to ensure it cannot walk again.
~The symbol of the Christian cross was also supposed to help to repel vampires although it would not kill them.
~Today the chupacabra is one of the more well known and popular blood suckers of our time.
(TAKEN FROM: http://www.paranormality.com/vampires.shtml)
HOPEFULLY I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FINDS VAMPIRE MOVIES PRETTY KICK ASS.....?
OH AND ON ANOTHER NOTE.... WAY RANDOM.... I KNOW... UMM I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS.. THESE OLD MEN CAN STILL ROCK OUT.... I LOVE THIS SONG... AND THEY NEVER GET OLD!!!
WHO AGREES WITH ME HERE???
MUCH LOVE.. TALK SOON... AND THANKS FOR ALL THE CHRISTMAS WISHES.. I HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON HOWEVER IT IS THAT YOU ARE CELEBRATING!!!
OXOXOXOXOX
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