I bet many of you are wondering how someone is turned into a vampire. We all know the most popular way involving lots of blood sucking (they suck, you suck). But if you take a look throughout folklore, old customs and tradition throughout the world you’ll learn that there are loads of ways someone was believed to turn into a vampire. Some of these are pretty ridiculous, but hey, people believed anything back in the day.
Before Birth or Shortly After Birth
- Born at certain times of the year (like a new moon or a holy day).
- Born with red caul, with teeth, or with an extra nipple.
- Born with a red birthmark, born with extra hair, born with two hearts.
- Conceived on a holy day (sex during the holidays is a no no).
- Weaned too early.
- Still being breast fed after weaning.
- Death without baptism (this goes for adults too).
- Born the seventh son of a seventh son.
- A vampire stared at the mother while she was pregnant.
- Had a curse cast on them.
- Mother did not eat enough salt during pregnancy.
- Stillborn babies.
Things Done During Life That Results In Vampirism
- Committing Suicide.
- Eating the flesh of an animal that was accidentally killed, not properly slaughtered.
- Being a Turk.
- Being a witch or sorcerer.
- Eating sheep that was killed by a wolf.
- Leading an immoral life (prostitutes, thieves, murderers…etc.)
- Saying a mass while in a state of sin.
- Being a werewolf.
- Having sex with an animal.
- Having a vampire bite three times.
- Stealing the ropes used to bury a corpse.
Death or After-Death Causes
- Being killed by a vampire.
- Wind from the Russian Steppe blowing on the corpse
- Having a shadow fall on the corpse.
- Death by violence or murder.
- Having a cat or other animal jump over the corpse.
- No burial or improper burial.
- Murder that is unrevenged.
- Having a candle pass over the corpse.
- Having one’s brother sleepwalk.
- Death by drowning.
- Death by plague.
- Being buried face up (this is from some parts of Romania).
- Dying during childbirth.
- Moonlight
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Well, I think you can be a vampire but none of those things have to happen cant vampires live off human food? And how do you know if your a vampire cause i sure dont know yet do you have the answers tp my questions
i’m really a vampire fan and so want to be one but i think i don’t believe you completely… still i want to be a vampire to ave immortal beauty and life…. to watch over the person you love always until his death…. to live forever….i want that but the thing i really believed is the ‘murderer is unavenged’ cuz i know all ghosts can to to heaven or hell after having no need to do anything in this world…. even after all my negative comments it doesn’t change the fact that i…..i……i……i……
“I WANT TO BE A VAMPIRE!”
All of these vampire methods come from folklore, they’re what people believed hundreds of years ago, so some of them are pretty crazy ;)
Trust me, immortal life sucks. No pun intended. Life gets boring. The beauty sucks, because people keep confessing their love for you, You get stalkers. If your trying to keep your being a vampire a secret, it will be hard with all your stalkers. And nowadays finding a blood source is hard. I’m working on having my girlfriend letting me drink from her. And if it makes any difference, I fall under at least two of the thins above. Call me a freak, I love blood, and I have extra nipples.
Do you don’t.
I must say, most of those things were very silly! arent there anyother, simpler ways to become a vampire?? I need to know because, i am finally admitting it, I WANT TO BE A VAMPIRE!!!!!!!
Lol. Especeally – being a vampire by being a werewolf, or by being a TURK, a WITCH :) People had nice imagination then. Semewhere I have read more facts like these, well some people even imaginated vampires to be purple! Hard to miss people that are purple in collor isn’t it?
I really belive in vampires and i am a real life vampire no lie and i know stefan and damon from vampire diaries and there real names r stefan real name is paul westly, and damon real name is ian somerholder and they r so hotttttt. and plus i know edward from twilight he is hot to his real name is robert pattision. and i know the wolf tribe from twilight and they r sam,paul,jacob,jared,and embra. and they r the hottest guys i mean hottest shirtless guys ever.
prove it
i know that the twilight stuff at the end was fake because i researched and are you really a vampire?
If u was a vampire you would have to keep it a secret
Totally agree Kate, if any of you are truly Vampires, why would you tell. Why would you bring that attention to yourself. You would risk yourself as well as the rest of your coven. Although Vampires are very egotistical they are not naive. I believe in Vampires and other supernatural creatures, the sounds that go bump in the night are not always our imagination. To be in the presense of a true vampire could be awesome, maybe one day you’ll get the opportunity, but how would that day end?
who knows whether vampire lives. i don’t even know. your friend could be a vampire,no doubt. a vampire could be following you, and you won’t even know. my mom says that vampires live in america but i don’t know.
gee it makes me quite scared.
save the chit chat. =p
Well, as I said in another comment, vampires are everywhere! They could be your penpal, the guy in front of you in line at a bookstore, the guy you dance with in dance class (i swear i think i danced with 2 or 3), your neighbor, maybe your cousin even, the person in your camp group, maybe the super hot camp consular that is only at camp at the overnight, the night security guard (well how do they stay up all night?), or maybe even your own best friend!
Hello. Your comment seemed interesting. My name is Agatha. I totally agree with you… a vampire can be everywhere…
Doesn’t matter if you are a believer or not. Vampires do not care about your beliefs… So it does not matter if you deny their existance… they will always be watching.
Anyways… for the “twilight lovers”
Mr. Cullen… does not exist… I’m sorry, but the truth is that vampires… are killers. There is not such thing as “Veg. Vampires” (as some of you were saying). And again… Vampires are not ment to be a “game”, a “joke” or some way of making money.
For the ones who “wish” they were vampires… Please open your eyes… if you know any vampire… (I’m not talking about all of you) it is probably from a book…,these vampires… (or many of them) are not real… which means that “real” vampires are not as these “book” vampires. You don’t want to become a “real” vampire… you probably want to become a “book” vampire… because that’s your concept of vampire. Please… don’t say such thing of becoming a vampire… these things… believe it or not are serious.
-Agatha.
And in old days, drinking vampire´s blood was a CURE for vampirism.
If dying in child birth truly was a way to transform into vampire then my older sister wuold be a vampire right now…I wonder…nah. :)
I’ve read every vampire book out there: true blood, vampire diaries, night world, twilight and all the others. i’m 13 i’ve never been so obsessed and over my head i’ve been researching for 8mounths how to be a vampire!!! is there an simply way?????
i need help i not only do i want to be beautiful, strong but most of all i want to live for ever i hate the thought of dieing leaving everything i love behind, and its not just that i carn’t think of a world with out my self being alone sleeping forever!!!!!sleeping with out a nice dream. i wouldn’t be so bad if i knew and was 100% sure there was a next place. that i wouldn’t mind. its a scary thought, i have night mares about it, i wake up scearming or crying and my mums worried, is getting less end less. but when have a good vampire and go to sleep thinking there might be hope i sleep like a baby. my school work is suffering and my family is scard for me. i need help and fest.
i’m an out sider i have no friends everyone hates me, i used to be miss popular since i came to high shcool everyone bullies me. so i’ve turned to reading i learned that there nothing a good vampire book carn’t sovle.
i want help!!!!! please!!!
im 13 too and im starting to become obsessed with vampires and i have know clue why!!!
Being a vampire would never solve anything. Everyone eventually dies. Your school work would still suffer. you would probably still have no friends and your face wouldn’t change. You all need to let it go, no vampire in their right mind would change any of you. You guys are the BIGGEST liabilities. And all these vampire books only hold a little bit of truth.
im 10 and yah vampires are pretty cool……..write your thoughts about vampirse in a jurnal and maybe all your dreams will come true
I LOVE VAMPIRES AND WANT TO B ONE
So I guess if you happen to be a Turkish Werewolf Pimp with a thrid nipple who likes to make sweet, sweet love to your sheep BEFORE you eat them, then you’re pretty much screwed??
Coooool!! ;)
The Unlife the bloggish ramblings of a perpetually 25 year old Austinite of the Nocturnal Preferential Persuasion
Hmmm… We’ll never know who Vampires are… For all we know, they could be right here replying to this… Yes, if your a Vampire you must keep it a secrete… I am 16, and I have experienced alot in my days already…
Only the “real vampires” will ever know if they are a Vampire or not… I may, or may not be a Vampire… You’ll never know… Don’t judge me by my words I am typing… Vamprisem is a big difference… We…I.. Have no clue if or if not they exist. But, I do think they exist… And Twilight, does NOT I repete NOT exist! But it’s a good book!
~~~Scarlett
You all should seriously consider everything before trying to become a vampire. You would all watch your loved ones die around you, blood is nearly impossible to find so you would starve to death anyway and when people find out, they don’t react well, such as; try to kill you, inform authorities and drive you out of town. Being a vampire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
how do you even no vampires are real…….mybe all that stuff was made up and they onmly exsist in books and movies
I’m Kiind Ow Really Obsessed By Vampiires…. I Want tO Be One…
And Yeah Vamps Really Xiist Once yOu’ve Seen One yOu Will Beliieve…
so?you wanna become vampires!
i could do it!
but you dont know what are you getting into.the blood.the keping secret about your existance
living for 100 years??let me tell you something.it’s interesting first 50 years but then you get bored!!!!!im 14 since 1917.yes! i have 93 years,and im still kid its stupid.
and that sotoryes about animal blood is lie.you cant survive on animal blood you need human.in my 93 years i killed manny people and im not proud to that.so think well before you do sommething stupid.
there is no turning back!