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The vampires we have now are a creation of literature, conscious borrowings, and deliberate de- and reconstructions. Ancient beliefs were varied and inconsisten
by 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 agoThis 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 agoI hope it is canon that Count Chocula turns to "chocolate cereal dust" upon death.
- tim333 7y agoI 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.