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Fascinating. I'd be extremely surprised if this disorder was not somehow related to vampire myth origins long ago. Poor understanding of the world before scien
by lamename 8y ago
Fascinating. I'd be extremely surprised if this disorder was not somehow related to vampire myth origins long ago.
Poor understanding of the world before science came around lead to lots of folklore and myths (i.e. fake explanations), given the facial features I'd be interested to know of any historical link.
- openasocket 8y agoThis disease may be the root for some mythological creatures, but probably not vampires. In folklore, vampires are corpses that continue to walk around and attack people at night. Not a person born with these sort of features, but rather an ordinary person who died. The details vary widely between cultures and time periods, but many folkloric depictions of vampires did not actually include fangs, and some don't even mention blood sucking. It likely would have been considered a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_birth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_birth