Cases with the appearance of vampires periodically slip in the Western press. Humanity has known about vampires since time immemorial. There is not a single people in the world that, in myths and legends, would not have blood-sucking demons.
So some Polish vampires simply swam in coffins filled with blood. And their Russian relatives drank blood straight from the heart of their victim.
In ancient Greece, where red hair and blue eyes were extremely rare, the owner of such an appearance could be declared belonging to the world of ghosts. When this person died, the body was closely watched and tried in no case to leave it in the dark until buried. Sunlight and moonlight were considered a powerful source of life energy, capable in some cases of resurrecting the dead.
The dead, sucking blood, were also known to almost all Turkic and Volga peoples. Kazan Tatars called them garments, and West Siberian Tatars called them fats. Similar dead men were called by the Chuvash vupars, by the Karachais - by oburmi, and by the Eastern Slavs - by ghouls. In Sicily, the dead could become vampires, whose murder was not avenged: anyone who died a violent death could leave the grave as a vampire and restore justice.
Another old belief, spread from Romania to China, said that if a cat (dog, chicken, or any other animal) jumped over a coffin that had not yet been buried, the deceased would turn into a vampire. Therefore, they tried to keep a good eye on the coffins before burial. If any incomprehensible noise was heard from the coffin, or a bird suddenly flew over it, or even the eyelid of the deceased suddenly opened, then a hawthorn twig was placed in the coffin, and if it was not at hand, then a chive.
In 1672, one of the residents of the Eastern European town of Krinche, named Georg Grando, died. He was buried by the monk St. Paul. But when he went to Grando's wife to console her, he saw the ghostly figure of the deceased outside the door. The monk and everyone in the house started to run. The figure of George has more than once been seen wandering the city's night streets. He knocked lightly on the doors of houses and, without waiting for an answer, went on.
We soon noticed that after visiting Grando, someone was dying in the houses. Georg's widow was convinced that the ghost of her husband came to her at night, letting her sleep deeply and sucking her blood. The Chief Justice of the city has given instructions to take up this strange case. He himself, together with a group of townspeople, went to the cemetery. When they dug up the coffin and opened it, they saw that Grando was lying healthy and rosy. A slight smile froze on his lips. Shocked by this spectacle, the townspeople fled from the cemetery in fear, and the judge had to return them again. This time they brought a priest with them, taking a thick, pointed stake made of hawthorn.
The priest, getting down to business, knelt down next to the corpse and, holding the crucifix before his eyes, read a prayer. A tear rolled down the dead man's cheek. The more the holy father spoke, the more there were tears. The townspeople raised the stake, aimed it at the vampire's chest, and slammed it hard. Instead of piercing the body, the stake bounced to the side. People tried to drive in the tree again, but it refused to enter the body. They beat me over and over again. However, it was all in vain. One of the townspeople, unable to bear it, jumped into the grave and beheaded the corpse with an ax. Suddenly there was a piercing scream, the body twitched in convulsions, and the spirit of evil disappeared forever.
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The most famous representative of vampires is Count Dracula. The prototype of this character was a real person - the Romanian prince Vlad Tepes (Tepes), who went down in history as one of the most cruel and bloody maniacs.
Now it is difficult to establish the true number of victims of Vlad, it is only known that he tried all imaginable and inconceivable methods of execution, and was the author of several instruments of torture. In history, he remained under the nickname Tepes - "Impaling". Whether he drank blood or not, however, his image over time acquired more and more creepy details, and popular rumor endowed him with more and more creepy mystical possibilities. Over time, the line between the real and the unreal character became thinner, and, finally, completely erased. So Vlad Tepes became Count Dracula - a mystical creature who slept in a coffin during the day and committed murder at night, giving the chosen one eternal life as vampires, in exchange for their soul.
Dracula's Castle or Bran is located in Romania, in the picturesque town of Bran, 30 km from Brasov, on the border of Muntenia and Transylvania.
It is believed that vampires have many abilities to help them in their bloodthirsty business. The first of these should be called the ability to change the shape of the body. A buried vampire does not need at all every time he leaves the grave to break through, like a mole, an exit to the surface in a two-meter layer of soil. They say that it can seep up through the earth and, once on the surface, take its former form. At will, a vampire could become a wolf, a bat, a cat, a rat, and even a light fog. In one form or another, he could climb any wall, crawl through any window, and even penetrate a keyhole.
According to the FBI, there are several secret organizations in the world that hunt down and destroy vampires. According to the meager information at their disposal, vampires do exist. These are the living dead and must support themselves with the blood of the living. Despite the fact that the vampire is clinically dead - his heart doesn't beat, he doesn't breathe, his skin is cold, he doesn't age - but he thinks and walks and plans and talks and hunts and kills. Because to maintain its artificial immortality, the vampire must periodically feed on blood, preferably human blood.
The information that fell into the possession of the FBI members refutes the generally accepted opinion that everyone who dies from a vampire's bite rises to become a vampire. To become a vampire, like his killer, the victim must be completely deprived of blood and then receive a drop of the vampire's blood. In the beginning, the newly created vampire thinks and acts in much the same way as in life. He does not immediately turn into an evil, sadistic monster. However, the vampire soon learns her invincible lust for blood and realizes that her life depends on the nutrition of her kindred.
In 1732, a letter was circulated among the soldiers of the Austrian army, who were in the area of present-day Serbia, where they reported on the increasing incidence of vampirism and made recommendations on security measures. At the same time, the higher authorities received a report about Gaiduk named Pavel, who lived near Kosovo. Died suddenly, he began to appear near the house where the widow lived, attacked people and livestock and sucked blood. As it is written in the report, “when the body of the indicated Paul was taken out of the ground in the third month after burial, the said body was not touched by decay, while the face of the deceased was distinguished by unnatural beauty. By the decision of the village headman, the indicated Pavle was impaled with a stake, and his head was chopped off.
The only scientist who seriously tackled the problem of vampires was Professor Stephen Kaplan, from New York. For twenty-five years, this scientist was engaged in research in his scientific center. Kaplan proved: yes, vampires exist, but they are not at all as vile creatures as they used to be portrayed. Indeed, they drink human blood, moreover, they simply cannot live without it.
According to friends, Kaplan has become the world's most important connoisseur and expert in everything that concerns those who like to suck on other people's necks. Through long research in different countries, Stefan Kaplan revealed a layer of people who simply cannot live without "living blood". One of the psychologists confirmed: indeed, there are such people, and we are talking about individuals suffering from mental disorders. There is even a special name for this disease - hematomania. Stefan, on the other hand, argued that this is not so, that in fact we are talking about physiological disorders, and psychologically these people are absolutely normal. They just need to drink some warm blood from time to time, as other people need, for example, a glass of warm milk.
To identify such natural, natural bloodsuckers from all pretenders and charlatans who declare themselves vampires for the sake of advertising, the scientist compiled a special questionnaire and sent it to candidates for this honorary "title" in different countries. The results were very interesting. On average, for three hundred applicants, only one passed the vampirism test. So one and a half thousand real natural vampires were identified. Their addresses, names are in the institute's file cabinet. However, access to this information is closed in order to avoid possible complications in the relations of these people with neighbors or local authorities.
However, journalists still managed to track down one of the wards of Professor Kaplan. Having secured a promise that his name would not be made public, a resident of the city of Umbria - a slender and youthful vampire - told everything about himself. He said that he regularly drinks human blood - this helps him feel vigorous and keeps him young. He does not attack anyone, does not force anyone - the precious liquid is supplied by friends completely voluntarily, because they are aware of his needs. The vampire calmly walks the streets during the day, he is not afraid of the light, only tries to avoid direct sunlight. In addition, he wears glasses with tinted glasses all the time.
Confirming or refuting, the existence of real deceased ghouls is quite difficult. However, there is a test that allows you to recognize a vampire. If your boyfriend or girlfriend is thin, pale, wears sunglasses, prefers candles to electricity, looks much younger than his age, has a magical and soulful look, never gets sick, loves loneliness at night, eats raw meat, is not interested in sex, and loves to dress in black, run from him, in front of you is a vampire.