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The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
To prevent vampires from rising from the dead, their hearts were pierced with iron nails while resting in their graves, or their bodies burned and the ashes scattered. Because the Church opposed burning people who had received the myron of chrismation in the baptism ritual, cremation was considered a last resort. [35]
To get rid of a vampire people would hire a Dhampir (the son of a vampire and his widow) [4] to detect the vampire. To ward off vampires, Romani people drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial.
Whether those disappearances have anything to do with vampires is up for debate. But according to Weiss, strange things — things we don’t really want to know about — happen all the time.
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The Vampire Watchers Handbook by "Constantine Gregory" and Craig Glenday, 2003 St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 62–63 Mysteries of Mind Space and Time , The Unexplained series 1992 Orbis Publishing Limited, Westport, Connecticut, po. 150–151
Other popular series: DC's I Vampire, Marvel's Blade and the various Buffy books from Dark Horse. Magazines such as Rue Morgue and Fangoria also feature vampires on a regular basis. 4. Halloween ...
Dead people thought to be upiórs had garlic heads, bricks, or iron chunks placed in their mouths before burial. [20] Branches of wild rose, hawthorn, or blackthorn were put into their coffins. The coffins were sprinkled with poppy-seed, so the upiórs would have a chore (picking all the seeds up) to occupy them. [ 20 ]