Vampire Mythology throughout History

Evrey culture has had its own mythology of vampire type creatures each with their own distinctive charecteristics. they were red-eyed monsters with green or pink hair in china or in grece they had the upperbody of a woman but the lower of a winged serpent.

The once we are familia with today are based on the Easten Europen myths. The stories orignly vame from far east and got passend on via the trade routesto the meditranian. the traits that we know vampires to have which actually came from the original myths are the drinking of blood, return from the death, praying on humans at night but some consepts are have been added more recently like the wearing of eveing cloths, capes with tall collars and turning into bats.
Also some of the original myth has nearly been forgotton like placeing poppy seads on a grave to keep the vampire counting all night.

In the 9th and 10th centurys causes of vampirism were belived to be, being born with a cau, sharp teath (fangs) or tail, being concived on certain days, iregular death, impropper beriul rituals. They also belived that they could prevent someone being turned into a vampire by placeing a crucifix in the coffin, puting a block under thier chin or stakeing the hart. once a vampire had risen it could be killed by stakeing the hart, decapitation, burning repeating the buerial ritural or exorcism.

Gypsie Myths added to the alredy fluresing vampire stories in the 14th centry. theybelived that a dead person sometimes returned to feed off thir family. They also placed steal in the coffin and through the hart witch may have lead to latter belifes about vampires not likeing silver

The conection between bats and Vampires did not come about untill the 16th century when Spanish settlers landed in American and came into contact with the Vampire bats and noticed the simmilaritys between them and the mythicle charecters.

Even after all of this the myths of vampires were not widly know throughout Europ untill the 18th centry when there was a massive vampire scare. even goverment officials were involved in the stakeing of vampires. Vampire only came into the english languge in 1732 when a German report got translated. For the first time Westen scholors started acsepting vampire as obosed to simply stateing they were superstition . The scar ended when Austrian Empress Marie Theresa sent her personal physisan to investigate he said they didnt exsist. she then outlawed the opening of graves and it ended the scare but by that time evreyone knew the myth.