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Karol Kot (18 December 1946 – 16 May 1968) was a Polish murderer who terrorized the city of Kraków between 1964 and 1966. Due to trial evidence and to the seemingly random choices of victims, which included children and elderly people, Kot was nicknamed the Vampire of Kraków (Polish: Wampir z Krakowa).
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.
Vampire Secrets is a 2006 docudrama about the mythology and lifestyle of vampires, produced by Indigo Films for the History Channel, and narrated by Corey Burton. The documentary features the history of vampires from Indian ( Hindu goddess Kali ), Greek, and Chinese origins, and references to the Bible and ancient Mesopotamia.
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 ...
In 1989, he published The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirism which contains original vampire accounts translated into English from over twenty languages, many for the first time, including a vampire trial in Dubrovnik in 1737. The book is currently being added as a chapter in his forthcoming work Vampire Lore.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1578–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. [1] He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock. [2]
John Brennan Crutchley (October 1, 1946 – March 30, 2002) was an American convicted kidnapper and rapist.A possible serial killer, he was suspected of murdering up to thirty women.
Bara's official credit is even "The Vampire", and for this reason the film is sometimes cited as the first "vampire" movie. [7] However, in the film as in Kipling's poem, the term is used metaphorically, as the character is not literally a vampire. The film was the first on-screen appearance of World War I-era film actress May Allison (1890 ...