The Hunger For The Blood
Did you know the vampires exist? No, this is not some kind of the fairytales. It is for real. Official medicine knows about them. The science knows about them. These real vampires are known as persons who are suffering from the so- called Renfield’s syndrome. According to the medicine, the vampires are people who have a strong mental obsession to drinking the blood.
Nasty Bloodsuckers
So, what should we do? Should we chasing these people to poke wooden stake into their hearts or just to cut off their heads? No, of course not. These modern vampires are completely harmless. They have mental fixation on the blood, but not the real need for killing people and sucking their blood. They are clinical cases, not murderers.
What is about the other kind of the vampires- the kind that really sucks the blood from the victim’s neck, turns into a bat, disappears in the fog and do not have reflection in the mirror. These nasty bloodsuckers are completely different story- scarier story.
These creatures were people’s obsession for the centuries, and according to some texts, their persistence was known thousands of the years before the Christ.
It is believed that French and Germans were the first people who were so unlucky to find themselves face to face with a vampire. We do not know how this meeting ended, but we know the term vampire comes from the French word “vampyre” or, which is more likely, from the German “vampire”.
Serbian Vampire
However, the real hysteria about these undead creatures was widespread especially in Eastern Europe. These people were truly terrified with the vampires and the stories about them. They believed the vampires were evil creature that were rising from the graves and killing people for revenge or the hunger.
It is lesser known that the first vampire in the Europe was appeared in the medieval Serbia. His name was Sava Savanovic. According to the legend and Serbian folklore, Savanovic lived in the watermill and after his dead, he became the vampire. He was killing the millers and drank their blood.
However, the vampires did not become famous across the world by Sava Savanovic and it watermill. All credits for that goes to the Bram Stocker, Irish writer, and his gothic novel from 1896- the well-known “Dracula”.
Bizare Count
Although Stocker never explained how he made this character and from where he got the idea for the bloodthirsty count, the critics believe the writer found inspiration in the real historical figure. That was Romanian prince from Transylvania province Vlad III, the member of the secret society “House of the Dracula”.
Vlad was a very bizarre person, and he became famous thanks to the courage he showed in battles against the Turks. On the other hand, he was also known as extreme brutal man, who enjoyed torturing people. The one of his favorite amusements was to lunch in front of the prisoners who were skinned alive and lanced with wooden stick.
Allegedly, Vlad would have gone mad if some prisoner died before he finishes lunch! The perfect inspiration for the Dracula!
