definitely FAKE!!! how would you be able to turn into a bat???
But...., some things may be true... like people drinking blood to survive, which gives them strength... and that they hate light.... Plausible isn't it?
There are of course the vampire bats, and all other animals that drink blood of others. Concerning humans there aren't any vampires like literature or old wive's tales know them. But some people with really strange or sanguinaire behaviour have surely inspired people. There are also some diseases or disorders like various forms of Porphyria that may show symptoms that may seem vampire-like. People's imagination, and disposition to believe in things, made the rest of the work.
Oh my gawd, they are so real. this one time in october I went out to turn off the water to the sprinkler, then I saw all these vampires out roaming about. SUDDENLY 3 little vampires turn and run towards me. good thing i had my gun with me. I shot one of them, then a big vampire started screaming. then like this werewolf came out of no where with like 4 ghosts or something. but these ghosts looked kind of weird and were talking frantically among themselves. So i just ran away. moral of the story: carry guns on you so you wont get attacked by vampires, which are very real.
do any of you know where it all started, if not look up vlad dracula, or vlad the impaler.
That was a major beginning of the spread of the myth through europe, however many cultures have myths regarding blood drinking human(oid)s. Many have traced this back to the practice of tribal people sustaining themselves by drinking the blood of their livestock, as well as that of their enemies.
A common practice for many hundreds of years prior to the advent of the 'Dracula' myth was to consume the blood and/or organs of slain animals and foes to absorb their power. Also many nomadic desert people, especially in the steppes of Asia and in Africa drank the blood of their livestock by bleeding them. This served to provide nutrients as well as hydration in areas typically devoid of plentiful water sources.
In fact, the practice is still going strong today among tribal people in Africa, and many cultures still teach their young people to drink the blood and/or eat part of an organ when they slay their first animal, kind of as a right of passage.
Many of these real life practices got woven in with many different cultural myths and have evolved to our modern day myth of the vampire. Also, I have heard that the tales of Erzebeth Bathory have also contributed to the myths of Vlad the Impaler in the creation of the Dracula myth.
