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This disease may be the root for some mythological creatures, but probably not vampires. In folklore, vampires are corpses that continue to walk around and atta
by openasocket 8y ago
This 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