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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.
In "The Kiss of Death", the daughter of the demon king Ashmodai snatches the breath of a man who has betrayed her, strongly reminiscent of a fatal kiss of a vampire. A rare story found in Sefer Hasidim #1465 tells of an old vampire named Astryiah who uses her hair to drain the blood from her victims. A similar tale from the same book describes ...
In Catalan mythology, Comte Estruch—also known as Arnald Estruc or Wilfred Estruch—was a 12th-century Catalan noble who became a vampire. This legend is the oldest vampire tale in European history and is one of the few Spanish myths associated with vampirism.
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.
Petar Blagojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Благојевић, German: Peter Plogojowitz; died 1725) was a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and to have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was the earliest, one of the most sensational and most well documented cases of vampire hysteria.
The child, who died at about 10 years old, was found buried with a stone in the mouth, in a cemetery for infants and young children. ... Unlike modern-day myths about vampires, in older myths ...
"The idea of vampires in New Orleans is a very, very old concept," Weiss explains. Believed to have been built on cursed ground, New Orleans has long been known as a city steeped in mysticism ...
Banks' The Vampire Huntress Legend Series, Laurell K. Hamilton's erotic Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, and Kim Harrison's The Hollows series, portray the vampire in a variety of new perspectives, some of them unrelated to the original legends. Vampires in the Twilight series (2005–2008) by Stephenie Meyer ignore the effects of garlic and ...