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Ukrainian folklore also described vampires as having red faces and tiny tails. [60] During cholera epidemics in the 19th century, there were cases of people being burned alive by their neighbors on charges of being vampires. [54] [61] In South Slavic folklore, a vampire was believed to pass through several distinct stages in its development ...
The Blow Vampire (1706 Kadam, Bohemia) Blutsauger (Germany) – Variant: Blutsäuger; Boo Hag (America) Boraro – Colombian folklore; Brahmaparush (India) Breslan Vampire (17th Century Breslau, Poland) Bruja (Spain and Central America) Bruxa (Portugal) – Males being called Bruxo; the Buckinghamshire Vampire (1196 Buckinghamshire, England)
An anime film about a vampire girl named Saya. A live-action adaptation. Coming Out (커밍 아웃) 2000 South Korea: Kim Jee-woon: Gu Hye-ju, Shin Ha-kyun, Jang I-ji: A short vampire film. Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire: 2000 United States: Steve Boyum: Matt O'Leary, Laura Vandervoort, Myles Jeffrey, Caroline Rhea: A Disney Channel original ...
The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
The legend tells that, for 16 years after his death, Jure would arise from his grave by night and terrorize the village. [4] The village priest, named Giorgio, who had buried Jure sixteen years previously discovered that at night, somebody would knock on the doors around the village and on whichever door he knocked, someone from that house would die within the next few days.
Then in the Victorian era the vampire becomes an indisputable character of theatres and nightlife (chap. 4, 'The Reawakening of the Vampire', pp. 65–95). It is not Bram Stoker's Dracula, but The Vampyre of John Polidori is the first published modern vampire story, the book is therefore dedicated to this Romantic writer.
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The 1986 French video game Vampire was one of the first video games to feature vampires, along with the similar 1986 Spanish game Vampire. [18] One of the earliest video games featuring a vampire as the antagonist is The Count, a 1979 text adventure for various platforms, in which local villagers send the player to defeat Count Dracula. [19]