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Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder
- rurban 6y agoHe should have least mentioned the Carmilla story, which was the origin of the Vampire story. From an porphyria autopsy report from Graz, Austria about a dead noble girl from Eastern Styria, which a horror writer in England caught up by a popular press report from Vienna, and then wrote the erotic/gothic Carmilla novel, about lesbian night creatures longing for blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla (Btw Wikipedia doesn't know the real background story for this) Which Stoker mixed with the Romanian Vlad Dracul story, who was not blood obsessed, but obsessed with anal torture. But he beat the Turks and therefore he was quite famous.