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Weren't vampires originally not-so-subtle symbol for aristocracy to begin with?

• msla 7y ago
  The vampires we have now are a creation of literature, conscious borrowings, and deliberate de- and reconstructions. Ancient beliefs were varied and inconsistent, as you'd expect from a vague category comprised of "various folklore people used to believe about dead bodies getting up and being pests to the living"; in some ways, ancient vampires are closer to what we'd call zombies, and ancient zombies are closer to what we'd consider robots, in terms of being used for slave labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
  • kej 7y ago
    This is one of my favorite Wikipedia page, and I don't get to bring it up very often: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_fo...
    • DogOnTheWeb 7y ago
      I hope it is canon that Count Chocula turns to "chocolate cereal dust" upon death.
      • tim333 7y ago
        I found this from the talk page amusing: >This article is AWFUL. I'm trying to do some research on comparative mythology of vampires, by culture, and am literally seeing Count Chocula in the same list as this broad-stroke "European" generalization.