(This fundie is talking about vampires.)
As in Bram Stoker's mythological and historical patchwork creature, or the romanticized, Hollywood Buffy/Twilight/etc. variety? No.
As in the lifeforce-draining, demonic spirit variety predominate in Slavic and other folklore? Yes. Reports of humans becoming such a creature postmortem, of which there is ample historical evidence, could also be the result of some kind of demonic possession.
9 comments
Those reports were by people hundreds of years ago who were unfamiliar with the varying ways bodies decompose/mummify/turn into adipocere. Also; Many cases were really cases of disease epidemics or weird diseases like Porphyria.
TWO YUCKY PHOTOS COMING UP....
PARDON THE GROSSNESS....image
....PARDON MORE GROSSNESS....image
********
I'm sorry for the yucky pics (I made them small so they're not 'In your face')....image image image image image
A villager suffers from a consumptuous disease and is eventually is declared dead by unreliable means. He is buried quickly - too quickly. Still alive, he desperately screams and claws at his coffin in a vain attempt to survive - those sounds are heard by passerbys, but rather than realising that he was buried alive, they conclude that he must come back from the dead.
Vampires are really an excellent example of superstition that can actually be pretty easily explained through science.
There is no evidence for vampires, as most of the Buffy or Twilight aficionados, the sane ones anyway, know well. I suspect they were based on blood-sucking insects: fleas, mosquitos, bedbugs, etc.
However there is ample historical evidence for a prince named Vlad III of Wallachia, or Vlad Dracula, ie son of a dragon or devil. He was also known as Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, because of the horrendous way he used to execute his victims, from 40,000 - 100,000 people. 'Impalement was and is one of the most gruesome ways of dying imaginable, as it was typically slow and painful.'http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm
Bram Stoker took this true history, as the basis for his novel about Dracula the vampire. His castle in Transylvania seems even more terrifying, if you know it is a real place in Romania, where the real Vlad Dracula lived.
However your stories of vampires, demons or else zombies are nothing but myth.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
