No attempt to classify otherworldly beings could do without vampires. In any set of information about various supernatural creatures and phenomena, the vampire was certainly present, even if it was far from our modern idea of it.
The famous researcher E. Maple in his book on witchcraft said that in demonology a vampire was often a kind of ghost or demon, differing from them only in the way of obtaining the required power.
Vampires, like demons, were able to commit any act, just to achieve what they wanted. They were considered creatures with immense lust and passion. It was often said about vampires that they like to sneak around to young girls at night in order not only to drink their blood, but also to commit other lewd practices.
Some scientists are sure that the vampire appeared in human mythology earlier, and over time, having lost its masculinity and flesh, gave life to a ghost. Vampirism primarily implies not so much a passion for human blood, but the return of the dead to life by means of the dark force that has infiltrated him.
Ghouls, vampires, and other creatures like them are often described as the dead, revived by the devil.
In Western Europe, in ancient times, there were legends about female vampires who looked for newborns at night to drink their blood. Another type of vampire were sorcerers, rising from the grave and bringing death to the area.
In the days of romanticism, the vampire ceases to be a creature of terror. Romanticism is no longer inclined to see something extremely frightening and disgusting in the dark and cruel. The attraction of evil penetrates the works of art, and the vampire becomes their full-fledged character.
Gothic literature, which saw the world as mysterious, unknown and unknowable, containing much that eludes reason, belonging to the spiritual sphere, turned its attention to the inhabitants of ancient demonological treatises. On its pages hosts of ghosts, spirits, dark entities, mysterious castles, revived armor and, of course, vampires have found refuge.
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The devil, being the ruler of all unclean things, manifests himself through his servants, who receive a definable form and ways of dealing with them. The combination of passion and horror, which later acquired a combination of libido and thanatos from Freud, attracted romantic writers with its almost forbidden charm.
In Beckford's Vatek, the prince's love for a gentle beauty alternates with a description of demonological rituals, and the Sultana Karatis gives up the dead to be devoured by the ghoul vampires, and her ugly servants copulate with the revived corpses.
GUSAKOVA IRINA YURIEVNA