The Vampire in England
In the modern world most people are familiar with the Vampire. However, in Britain, very little of Vampire mythology was known prior to the 18th century. During the 18th century there was a massive Vampire scare i9n Eastern Europe. This was a major thing at the time, with massive Vampire hunts taking place, with even government officials taking part in the hunts.

It was in this time period that educated people started to consider the existence of Vampires for the first time, rather than accepting they were myths and legends. There were also a couple of well documented Vampire attacks at this time, and a large part of the population was obsessed by Vampires and protecting themselves from them. The controversy raged for years and years, with an epidemic of people digging up graves not really helping matters. Many Scholars argued that Vampires simply didn't exist, and there were rational explanations for all of the things that were going on. Eventually physicians declared that Vampires didn't exist, and the opening of graves and desecration of bodies was made illegal. This was pretty much the end of the Vampire epidemics, but it also ensured that the Vampire lived on in the pages of books, and the minds of the general population.

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