History of the Vampire
Vampire myths and legends go back hundreds, and thousands of years. They occur in almost every culture. The different types are many, although the vampires we are familiar with today, are mainly based on Eastern European myths.

The modern concept of a vampire retains many of the original traits from the East European stories. Traits such as drinking blood, preying on humans, only coming our at night, rising from the dead. Other aspects of the Vampire, such as Goth type clothing, cloaks, turning in to bats etc are much newer innovations.

Other features of some of the old myths are now all but gone, such as sprinkling salt, or seeds over the Vampire in order to keep them counting all night, rather than preying on human blood.

There are lots of different types of Eastern European Vampires here is a little information about the various ones:

Slavic Vampires
Romanian Vampire Mythology
Bats and Vampires
The Vampire in England
Vampire beliefs in the world today

Vampire, Gothic and related literature

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