Vampires are beings of folklore and mythology that basically exist by feeding off the lifeforce of humans and/or animals.Usually, they are “undead” or ressurrected corpses, who live off the blood of other beings. Most popular legends refer to the blood-drinking Undead in Eastern Europe, but many other various cultures and regions have similar creatures. Some are non-human, or animal, bats, dogs, spiders, et cetera. Vampires are an extremely popular inspiration for various fictional works discussed later.
Vampirism itself is the act of drinking a human or animal’s blood. It is a form of cannibalism, however less often occurring, and is popularly regarded throughout modern fiction and legend, as a way to gain supernatural powers. Historically speaking, it was also a way to intimidate an enemy, for the opposing force to claim that they ate flesh or drank blood, and can reflect a culture’s spiritual beliefs.
The word vampire is widely distributed throughout various cultures and languages. The English word vampire, could have been derived from many possible languages, the most forestanding, the German “Vampir” and French “Vampyre”. The German word, vampir, is derived of its many similar variations in most Slavic languages.
The first recorded use of the word is believed to have been used in Old Russian, Upir, in a Book of Psalms, transcribed by a priest, in 1047 AD, who stated that his name was “Upir Iikhyi”, which means “Foul Vampire”. This was debated later, as it was the translated version of the name of a famous Swedish rune carver.
In Babylonian demonology, there were vampiric beings called Lilu, and further back, in Sumerian legend, were Akhkharu, who would prowl the night killing newborns and pregnant women. The Jewish adapted Lilith from one of the demons, called Lilitu. There are vampiric beings in India, found in Sanskrit folklore, called vetalas; ghouls who inhabit corpses. The Indian religion Hinduism has various mythological legends of blood-drinking gods and goddesses, and also humans, considering reincarnation is a part of Hinduism, and one leading a sinful, or unclean life may be reincarnated as reanimated corpse attacking the living at night. The Egyptian goddess Sekhmet became enslaved to her bloodlust after killing humans, and was only sated by drinking alcohol tinted to look like blood. The strix, appearing in Roman stories, was a nocturnal bird who fed on human flesh and blood.
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i have heard of the origins dating to the great grandmother of christ i havent realy looked into it but the story goes that jesus himself was acctualy vampire, and this is what gave him his ability’s, as you can imagine this would explain a lot of things that occur in the christian bible and the refrences to the blood of christ if this were true he would have been the first male making him soley responsible for carrying the blood line. wich by all tecnicality would have been passed to mary magdalin and to the son of christ. but like i said this is just somthing i heard.
hey yvain schaffnit i think that is kinda of a neat story. i was kinda thinking something like that but just that he was a supernatural human. but the vampire thing makes more seance. though thinking that i can’t stop laughing about what if that was true. thinking about how much alot of christens are against “magic” and here it is that the person they follow could be a vampire. though it is sad that they are against that stuff but really their religion was started with alot of people had abilities. all the disciples had abilities.
That’s very interesting and in a way makes sense. I’m going to look into it.
yvain,
first off the DaVinci code is not real. Jesus never married, never had any children and never laid with mary magdalin.
Second, Jesus was not a vampire and got his powers from God which was also himself. Just because Jesus exhibited powers simular to those which vampires have doesn’t mean he was one. There are humans that can exhibit simular powers to vampires too so there is no reason to think Jesus was a vampire.
lastly, do your research before you post something you are not sure of.
ok darkone chill.
first off if your a christen then you should know better then to jump at someone. so hold your tongue and behave like you have been taught to do and not be a hypocrite
second it’s called a theory. it can be proven and disproven. and no one can say for sure unless however YOU are able to sit down to jesus and have a good oh chat with him about what he is or is not. and if so i would love to meet this jesus of yours b/c i have a bone to pick with him and a few questions of my own.
third have a little respect for other people’s opinions as everyone is entitled to their own. and you have no right to try and push your opinions on another person. more so if you are a christen as you should know how to behave as you are to follow the golden rule “treat others as you would like to be treated” or as your jesus says “treat your nabor as yourself” and i do belief that you would want respect from others on your beliefs
forth, humans can not have powers as strong as jesus as their bodys could not handle it. we can only have a very small part of what he had. also anyone that has anything worthy enough to compare to him is not 100% human as we think of it or is a witch.
so could you pleas not jump at ppl when they have a right to their own theories and opinions.
thank you
-Enya