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Porphyria has been suggested as an explanation for the origin of vampire and werewolf legends, based upon certain perceived similarities between the condition and the folklore. In January 1964, L. Illis's 1963 paper 'On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werewolves' was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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 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)
Get your turtlenecks ready, it's time to talk vampires. If you're fascinated by creatures of the night, the kind that prey on human blood, you aren't alone.From dressing up in vampire costumes on ...
Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren't in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty ImagesThe vampire is a common image in today’s pop ...
Ukrainian folklore also described vampires as having red faces and tiny tails. [59] During cholera epidemics in the 19th century, there were cases of people being burned alive by their neighbors on charges of being vampires. [53] [60] In South Slavic folklore, a vampire was believed to pass through several distinct stages in its development ...
Unlike modern-day myths about vampires, in older myths, vampires were not thought to be nearly as sexy as we think of them today. "A lot of stereotypical images of vampires (a noble person ...
Porphyria, a group of diseases in which substances called porphyrins build up; Vampirism, a term describing being a vampire This page was last edited on 30 ...