Re: My friend; The Vampire
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Toxic stares at you dumbfounded. I myself am a bit more patient. [/b]
Mudpuppy<<<<giggling like a girl....
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While I was born a vampire as you must now realize there are of course myths and legends of the first vampyre.[/b]
True. The original story was actual taken from history. From that story came the fictious story tie-ins to Dracula and Vampyrism. The original story goes like this:
The infamous vampire Count Dracula was in part based on a real person: the 15th century Eastern European ruler Vlad Tepes, (also called Prince Dracula)Prince of Wallachia, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad Tepes' father was Vlad Dracul, who ruled Wallachia before him, and Tepes preferred the name "Dracula", by which he was widely known in his own time. Bram Stoker's Count Dracula appears to have been inspired by stories of Vlad the Impaler along with the vampire folklore of the region that the historical Dracula dominated. Vlad the Impaler has never been considered a vampire by his countrymen, and similarities to the fictional Count are superficial, but they are enough to indicate more than coincidence: The two men have the same name. Count Dracula is from Transylvania, while Prince Dracula was from neighboring Wallachia, but his castle was on the Transylvanian border. Both men led their nations to victory against the incurring Ottoman Turks. And both were widely feared. Vlad the Impaler was and still is considered to be one of the most bloodthirsty and Machiavellian leaders to have ever lived, having murdered an estimated one fifth of his own population. Legend has it that the ruthless Prince ate bread dipped in the blood of his victims. That's not substantiable, but it may provide a further connection to Bram Stoker's fictional Count. Count Dracula and Vlad Tepes have nothing in common beyond these few traits, and the horrific truth of Vlad Tepes' rule in the mid- to late- 15th century is far more frightening than any gothic horror novel, but not nearly as seductively allegorical.
If I am to understand what you have posted so far Adrian, you are far removed from all of these stories. You are a Dahmpir, not a Vampyre. Hence, all the confusing questions. Here is some more information for those out there interested:
A
Dhampir is a being in
Roma folklore that is half-
vampire and half-
human, born from a vampire father and a human mother. They are sometimes said to be able to kill vampires.
The harsh reality</span>
In reality, dhampirs were charlatans traveling the regions around the Carpathian mountains and elsewhere in eastern Europe. Operating by the original myth of <a href=\'http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Vampire&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1\' target=\'_blank\'><span style=\'color:#0000ff\'>vampyr</a> (old spelling, both singular and plural) as spirit creatures, they were the only ones who could see the spirit and would put on elaborate shows for villages, often wrestling with an invisible foe until it was then trapped in a brass vessel. Usually a dhampir would wait until there was a death in a village. As superstitious as people were out in the wilderness, grief and the environ led to unnatural happenings in the villagers minds... such as seeing the dead walking the village at night. (NOTE: vampyr would take over the recently dead corpse, for as long as it would last, to invade villages. They fed off life force directly, not by blood, sometimes killing victims in close proximity so life leaving the body could be consumed more quickly.) Once fear, grief and superstition took hold in a village following a recent death, the dhampir would "come to the rescue".
Adrian, Please do not be offended by any of the above definitions. Please feel free to set the record straight. I am sure if you googled "mortals" or "humans" you would find inaccurate discriptions as we are all unique and do not easily fit into either a shoebox mentality or definition. We are all more than the sum of our parts......or the perceptions of others.
