THE LEGEND OF THE ORIGINAL VAMPIRE

There are legends of vampires since 125aC, occurred when one of the major stories of vampiresknown. It was a Greek legend. In fact it can be said that this was the first written record, as the origins of the myth are lost centuries and centuries ago when the oral tradition prevailed.Legends about vampires originated in the east and traveled to the West through the Silk Road to the Mediterranean. From there they spread to the Slavic lands and the Carpathian mountains.The Slavs have the richest vampire legends. They were originally more associated with theIranians and from the eighth century is that spread to Slavic lands. About the same time thesestories began to spread, we began the process of Christianization of the region, and the legends of vampires survived as myths often associated with Christianity.

Later, the Gypsies migrated westward across northern India (where there are also a number oflegends about vampires), and their myths have been confused with the myths of the Slavs.Gypsies arrived in Transylvania shortly after Vlad Dracula was born in 1431. The vampire here was a ghost of a dead person, which in most cases was a witch, a wizard, or a suicide.

Vampire creatures were feared because they killed people at the same time that they looked like. The only difference was that they had no shadow, nor is it reflected in mirrors. In additioncould change its shape to that of a bat, made ​​them difficult to catch and very dangerous. Duringthe daylight slept in their coffins at night to drink human blood, since the rays were lethal to them.The most common method was at midnight, flying through a window in the form of a bat and bitethe victim's neck so that his blood was totally sucked. The vampires can not enter a house if they were not invited. But since they were could return at will. Vampires Slavs were not dangerous just because they killed people, (many people did too) but also because its victims after death, alsoturned into vampires. The most feared vampire was the fact that they are virtually immortal. Only a few could kill a vampire rites such as: pierce your heart with a stake, decapitated him or burn his blood. This kind of vampire is also the best known, having been immortalized in the figure of the most famous vampire of all time, Count Dracula by Bram Stoker.