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The vampire lifestyle, vampire subculture, or vampire community (sometimes spelled as "vampyre") is an alternative lifestyle and subculture based around the mythology of and popular culture based on vampires.
Vampire lifestyle is a term for a contemporary subculture of people, largely within the Goth subculture, who consume the blood of others as a pastime; drawing from the rich recent history of popular culture related to cult symbolism, horror films, the fiction of Anne Rice, and the styles of Victorian England. [192]
Tales of the undead consuming the blood or flesh of living beings have been found in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. [3] Today these entities are predominantly known as vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood; even the devil was ...
Vampires are frequently represented in popular culture across various forms of media, including appearances in ballet, films, literature, music, opera, theatre, paintings, and video games. Though there are diverse and creative interpretations and depictions of vampires, the common defining trait is their consumption of blood for sustenance ...
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)
With the development of mass culture, he returned as a "vampire" recognizable in literature and film. [8] In Slavic folk culture, the upiór has features that are strongly present in strzyga, [9] and so Adam Mickiewicz has theorized upiór developed from an ancient Roman and Greek strix. [10]
Fiction about human–vampire romance (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Vampires in popular culture" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
In Russia the common name for vampire (or wurdulac) is upyr (Russian: упырь). Nowadays the three terms are regarded as synonymous, but in 19th century they were seen as separate, although similar entities. The Russian upyr was said to be a former witch, werewolf or a particularly nasty sinner who had been excommunicated from the church.