There are a considerable number of myths and theories about what a real vampire looks like. Some say that the creature must be tall and skinny, but this is just a legend. There are many legends that witches and vampires were extremely light in weight and tall in stature. It is possible that such a description was suitable for the evil spirits that lived in ancient times. Nowadays, their build can be completely different.
If you decide to become a part of this evil community yourself or find one of them, then you should definitely know all the features that distinguish this evil spirits from ordinary people.
In fact, there are both tall and short, thin and plump creatures. They can be plump, stocky and completely squat. Regarding the myth about the paleness of their skin, so opinions differ here. On the one hand, yes, a vampire can be identified by their deathly pale skin, but they don’t always have it like that. Certain eyewitnesses say that after the vampire finishes “feeding,” his cheeks turn sharply pink and his lips become scarlet, although before that they were almost bluish.
As for the obvious protruding fangs, it is also impossible to give any definite answer. Some say that their fangs always protrude, even when their mouth is closed. However, there is a theory that they stretch only as the feeding process approaches and during it. That is, when a creature sees its victim, feels its pulsating veins, the blood seething in them, and it is ready to attack. In this case, the teeth increase in size due to thirst.
There is another common myth - Vampires have a fear of light. It is widely believed that a vampire simply needs to be exposed to sunlight and his body begins to collapse, his skin literally explodes with a hiss and the creature turns to ash. Maybe something similar happened to the ancient ancestors of modern evil spirits. However, modern offspring have long been adapted to light and do not experience such reactions. Still, they don’t like to appear under the scorching rays of the sun, but there will be no hissing and special effects with burning in the sun’s rays, as in films.
How do modern descendants of Dracula live?
Is it possible to turn into a vampire in our time? These creatures have always attracted people with their mystery, the charm of dark forces and their enormous power, with which comes enormous opportunities. Attitudes towards these creatures have always been very different: for some they aroused only adoration, while others ran away in fear. The former were always looking for a way to summon them and join the ranks of these incredible creatures. Some people despised them for this, some simply laughed, and some generally believed that such people belonged in psychiatric hospitals. However, there were those who had incredible knowledge and shed some light on this question of “How to become a vampire?”
At this moment, a person looking for an answer to a question and already doubting the reality of all this, lost all doubts about this truth hiding in the darkness of the night. But where does such a desire come from? Unanswered love, suffering, incredible loneliness. Many of those who have thought about such a transformation cannot fully explain their cherished desire and, in addition, they do not fully understand the improbability of the process, as well as the complexity of their future survival. They naively believe that vampires are the rulers of the human race and can do absolutely anything. In fact, this is not true at all.
From today's elite there are very few such representatives of darkness. In fact, they hide because of their lifestyle and stay away from public life and socialization.
They stay away from crowds of people because they fear for their existence, and some of them are simply trying to cope with the incredible madness that is inextricably linked with their “life.” If you have thoughts like “How to become a vampire’s girlfriend?” just because you are bewitched by this “eternal love”, the spirit of which is saturated in science fiction books and films, then you need to know that this is just a myth. These creatures are ghouls who mainly care only about ensuring that fresh blood does not stop regularly flowing into their body. Blood is their most basic need. They will do absolutely anything for her.
Often dreams of becoming a creature of the night come to those who extremely dissatisfied with my life and simply wants some changes. These people naively believe that replacing their humanity with something else is exactly what they need, and only after that they will be able to experience incredible, all-encompassing happiness. However, this is just another myth, since a creature that is dependent on human blood as if on drugs cannot be happy by definition.
All that awaits a good person who sets foot on this path after he converts is eternal torment, suffering, sorrow and loneliness. And, of course, boredom, from which there will simply be no escape, no matter where the transformed person goes.
What awaits those who decide to become a ghoul?
However, there is also such a thing that a strong desire to join the small “army” of darkness appears out of nowhere and only increases every day. If you actually start to feel the urge to go somewhere and look for someone, then it is likely that you have fallen under vampire "call". This call, which the people around you cannot feel, will be the beginning of something new for you. Here you don’t need to look for any opportunities, since fate has already decided everything for you. And “life” awaits you ahead, filled with incredible strength and abilities, growing with every active day, as well as an incredible thirst for blood and longing for your old life.
Do not deceive yourself into thinking that you can become a being of darkness for only a few days or hours, and then you will simply return back to your former life. There is no turning back from this path. This new “life” is filled with a wide variety of dangers. Present in it:
- Simple hunting.
- Fight against opponents equal in strength or even superior to you.
- In order to survive, you will have to learn to exist among people, constantly hide in plain sight and keep your secret with incredible caution.
When the strongest loneliness overwhelms your soul and you want someone to be nearby. Someone who will share your experiences and torments. This someone will be the so-called neophyte - this is a person who wants to become a ghoul.
How to become a vampire in real life
The most banal option for turning into a creature of the night 
is the bite of another vampire. There is no way you can summon or attract this vampire; he will find you at night. The process itself is very complex and painful; it involves a complete restructuring of the body. The process can last from several days to several weeks. Throughout the entire period of treatment, a more “mature” vampire should be nearby.
If a person has any serious health problems, then he can simply die, unable to withstand the extreme agony. No painkillers will help here, since the transformation occurs at the cellular level in the area of the brain and spinal cord.
Such attacks of agony can be survived, and the power of a nearby vampire can help you with this:
- He will constantly nourish the strength of his ward with the help of his own blood in order to support the changes that his body undergoes.
- He will make sure that in an attack of incredible pain the ward does not harm himself.
- He will protect his convert during metamorphosis, since at this time the ward is incredibly vulnerable.
The process itself can only be carried out by a vampire with a huge reserve of strength, since this process requires incredible efforts of will not only from the convert, but also from him and from this same vampire the outcome of the entire transformation directly depends. It is for this reason that a strong vampire will not make just anyone his ward.
Therefore, if you decide to do this, then be prepared for the fact that something will be required of you in return. For example, in return, you can offer an experienced vampire to introduce him to a girl who only dreams of becoming a vampire's girlfriend. Of course, in most cases nothing good awaits this girl.
However, You should never, under any circumstances, do the following:
It is important to remember that the most important reason for appealing to children of the night is for their personal gain in the process. If you have the qualities that he needs, then he will very simply agree to this process, otherwise you may simply suffer (this is in the best case).
Now you can find many advertisements on the Internet that offer to become one of the vampires. However, if you follow this ad, you are very likely to fall for ordinary fraud or some psychopath who thinks she is a vampire. Vampires have long since stopped using the Internet as a means of finding neophytes, as they have already encountered problems with the law and various authorities. Now they act much more carefully and secretly.
Therefore, if your desire cannot be quenched by the usual method of a bite, since a real vampire simply does not communicate with you, then you can very well use other methods, right at home.
How to go to the side of darkness using a spell
There is a certain “Ritual of Initiation”, which can be mentioned quite often. They say that after it, you will become a real vampire. And such a proposal is very interesting, since its conditions are much simpler and more accessible compared to metamorphoses after a bite. However, the truth of this ritual is rather doubtful.
The point here is not even that real vampire magic is wielded exclusively by selected vampire magicians, who are extremely problematic to find, because even their own people consider them hermits and unsociable. This category of vampire magicians belongs to the highest elite, of which very few can become a part.
They choose their students so carefully, as far as possible, while the students will have to undergo all sorts of tests and extremely difficult tests. This is how sifting occurs. These checks last for years and even centuries. Only after these checks does the initiation ritual become available to the adept, the secret of which is known only to dark magicians who are not accustomed to divulge their secrets in any way, therefore it is very unlikely that rituals that are in the public domain have at least something in common with the truth and will provide an opportunity become a real vampire.
At the same time, you should understand that after such a ritual, gigantic opportunities will open up for you and after training with ghoul magicians, you will be far from an ordinary vampire, but part of a special elite, which everyone fears as much as they respect. In addition, you will have access to such powers and knowledge that others can only dream of. A small feature of this caste of vampires is that they not only drink the blood of their victims, but use the victim’s entire body to satisfy certain needs, if you know what I mean... Perhaps that is why they are disliked and feared.
Vampirism by nature
There are people in this world who, from birth, have a certain inclination. They are usually called "natural vampires". They are quite rare. However, it should be understood that having a tendency towards vampirism and being a vampire are two completely different things. Since innate skills still need to be developed.
This development occurs through intensive training and meditation. At some point, certain tendencies will begin to manifest themselves more and more strongly.
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During the Renaissance, the existence of vampires was thought about when there was an unexpected surge of deaths in one area. After the romanticization of the image of vampires, interest in them grew into a cult. You will be surprised, in real life they are officially recognized.
Ghouls in history
Vampires have become one of the popular types of evil spirits in the plots of films, songs, poems and paintings. Horrible deeds are attributed to these creatures, and in legends it is very difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.
Anyone who decides to commit suicide or goes against church canons can become a bloodsucker.
There is a belief that if at a funeral a black cat jumps over the coffin, or the deceased’s eyes open slightly, then the deceased will turn into a vampire. Having noticed something strange, they put garlic or hawthorn branches in the grave.
In the 21st century, at the beginning of the 2000s, the African republic of Malawi was gripped by an epidemic of vampirism. Local residents threw stones at several dozen people who were suspected of blood drinking. And the authorities were accused of conspiring with vampires.
In 2004, Tom Pere's parents, fearing that their son would become a bloodsucker, dug up the grave and burned his heart.
The first publication about the existence of vampires was in 1975. It said that death from a bite occurs due to poisoning with cadaveric venom. And the visits of the dead to their relatives are caused by hallucinations of impressionable people. Now in every country there is a belief in vampires, they just call them differently.
List of common castes of our time:
- In America they are called Tlahuelpuchi, during the day they are people, at night they are blood-sucking bats.
- The Australian creatures Yara-mo-yaha-hoo have long limbs with suction cups that they use to drink blood.
- In Romania, Vorkalak, a vampire dog.
- The Chinese believe in a vampire fox; girls who die from beatings and violence become it.
- Japan is home to Kappas, drowned children who feed on the blood of bathers.
- India is inhabited by immortal Rakshasas, who take on any form.
Scientific research is based on two opposing views on blood-drinking creatures.
First– vampires are unreal, and legends are based on frightening folk tales. Based on biology and medicine, the symptoms are refuted. The “incorruptibility” of the body can be caused by the specific composition of the soil; the unnatural postures of the dead are explained by the punishment of ancient times - burial alive.
Second– the myth about the existence of vampires is based on a genetic disease – Porphyria. Blood cells do not form in the patient's body, which leads to a lack of iron, due to which the skin becomes pale and susceptible to sunburn. People with porphyria do not perceive the smell of garlic; the acid contained in it has a negative effect on a weak body. More often the disease is a consequence of consanguineous marriages. Incests were recorded to a greater extent in the territory of Transylvania, where the legends about Dracula originated.
There is Renfield syndrome. This is a mental disorder when the patient drinks the blood of animals and even people. Some serial killers suffer from this disease.
The science of vampires asserts their existence in the real world, but does not define who they are. Some researchers believe that these are dead people who have suffered gene mutations or were bitten by an animal vampire. Features are inherited.
Other vampirologists claim that followers of the “blood-eating” ritual became vampires. For example, the ancient Aztecs believed that by eating human blood, you become immortal.
There is an opinion that vampires are people who have made a deal with the devil for eternal life, which must be fueled with blood.
Scientist Stefan Kaplan began searching for evidence of the existence of vampires in 1974. He created a center for the study of blood-drinking creatures in New York. According to the researcher, he found a large number of living vampires who appeared to be ordinary people.
What conclusions did Kaplan make:
- They really exist in our world.
- Fear of the sun can be overcome with the help of protective glasses and cream.
- Nails and fangs are not suspicious.
- The thirst for blood is not strong; one glass several times a week is enough.
- They are not aggressive and can create happy families. Friends, understanding, supply them with blood.
- Bloodsuckers can drink animal blood, but it has a different taste.
Those around them consider them mentally ill, but the scientist claims that thirst is physiological, not a mental problem. You should not treat them as wild, aggressive creatures.
Stories about vampires are very old and have become part of folklore. It is the mystery that surrounds them that increasingly sparks interest. Whether or not there are certain creatures that feed on blood is up to everyone to choose.
With the release of the film Twilight, the topic of vampires has increased dramatically. Fans of the film began to dream about the appearance of vampires in real life, like the main character - the vampire Edward Cullen. Dreams of a prince on a white horse gave way to dreams of a vampire on a silver VOLVO. And many really began to ask themselves the question: “Do vampires really exist in our time?” Let's try to figure this out.
First, let's find out what signs distinguish a vampire from a human. The vampire has fangs, feeds on human blood, is not reflected in the mirror, is wary of the sun's rays and is afraid of garlic. And such signs really exist in people nowadays, but it’s all called the disease porphyria. This is a very rare disease.
But still, legends and myths of ancient times spoke of the existence of vampires on earth. The blood-sucking dead were known to almost all Volga and Turkic peoples. An old belief says that if any animal jumps over the coffin of a dead person, the dead person will definitely turn into a vampire. In such cases, a hawthorn branch or a clove of garlic was placed in the coffin.
It turns out that nowadays vampires are not a fictional character. A huge number of people claim the title. Doctors call this nothing less than a mental disorder. These people deliberately make fangs for themselves, dress in black clothes, have an unhealthy attitude towards death and are very fond of blood. Some individuals actually hurt themselves and drink their own blood.
What do modern ufologists and specialists in similar fields say about the existence of vampires? For example, one famous ufologist claims that when a person’s body dies, his soul, or the so-called extracellular information structure, still lives for some time. Thus, after death, a person has a piece of self-awareness. For some time, VIR has reserves of energy and continues to exist. But the intellectual part of a person’s consciousness immediately disappears upon death. Only the primitive parts remain. Hence, the main goal of a field werewolf is to preserve its existence at any cost.
In fact, it is currently quite difficult to disprove or confirm that vampires actually exist. For many years people have been trying to figure out this question, but there are many disagreements and contradictions in this difficult research.
Do vampires exist?
The only person in the world who devoted himself to studying this problem was New York professor Stefan Kaplan, who created the Vampire Research Center for the study of vampires, where he conducted research for 25 years. He also created a test to identify a vampire.
Kaplan proved that they exist, but are not as terrible as they are described in the literature, they really need to be supported by blood, and their friends help them with this, sacrificing theirs. There has been a lot of debate among scientists about what kind of deviation this is and whether the disease is psychological or physiological. Kaplan adhered to the second version. They, and a specially conducted large-scale search, identified many human vampires, data about which is stored in the Kaplan center and classified.
In addition to energy vampires, there are also natural ones.
Bats are considered the most famous natural vampires, although in fact most of them feed exclusively on insects. However, in Central and South America there are so-called vampire bats that drink the blood of mammals and birds. Biologists have assigned sonorous names to three species of these mice: the common vampire, the white-winged vampire and the bushy-footed vampire. Typically, the victims of natural vampires are sleeping animals, in which a bat can drink up to 40 ml of blood in 20 minutes. Occasionally, vampire bats also attack sleeping people, but the threat is not blood loss, but the fact that bats are carriers of infectious diseases.
Today, some scientists have taken it upon themselves to say: vampires exist. Vampirism, according to scientists, is just a manifestation of a gene disease - porphyria, which is treatable.
In 1963, the English doctor Lee Illis presented his monograph On Porphyria and the Etiology of Werewolves to the Royal Society of Medicine, where documentary records of cases of vampirism and werewolves in Europe in the 12th-19th centuries were analyzed. Dr. Illis made a revolutionary suggestion that most of these stories are not based on superstition, but on real cases associated with porphyria.
Porphyria is a rare form of genetic disorder affecting one in 200,000 people. If one of the parents has porphyria, then there is a 25% chance that it will be passed on to the child. Like many other genetic disorders, porphyria is often the result of incest, so European monarchs often suffered from it, forced to choose wives from among close relatives.
The disease is characterized by the fact that pigment metabolism is disrupted, and under the influence of solar ultraviolet radiation or ultraviolet rays, the breakdown of hemoglobin begins. For such patients, sunlight brings incredible suffering, so they are forced to hide indoors during the day and go outside only at night.
In severe forms of the disease, patients' tendons become deformed, sometimes leading to curled fingers. The skin around the lips and gums dries out and tightens, resulting in the incisors being exposed to the gums, creating a grinning effect. Patients experience pale and thin skin, and sometimes the teeth become reddish due to porphyrin deposits. In a word, all the signs of vampirism are evident.
Nowadays, we hear about new appearances of vampires that someone has seen somewhere. Humanity has known about vampires since ancient times. Every nation has its own myths, about terrible people, about the living dead, whose hearts do not beat, and whose hunger is washed away only by blood. Of course, these are bloodsuckers who only satisfy their hunger by killing in order to live themselves, if this, of course, can be called life.
Different peoples have different myths. Some, for example, had vampires floating in a coffin full of blood. Among our domestic vampires, it was said that they drink blood from the very heart. In many countries there were all sorts of strange customs. It is known for sure that in Greece, if someone was born with red hair and had blue eyes, then people waited until his fifteenth birthday. If the hair color did not fade, the poor young man was ordered to be killed and the coffin to be closely monitored. And under no circumstances did they leave him alone, and tried to bury the body before sunset. So what actually happens is
People are not as stupid as they used to be. Now they trust science more than prejudices and myths. It has indeed been proven that there are people who vitally need to consume blood, which is poorly absorbed and functions in the body, otherwise they will gradually fade away. But this is where all the similarities with bloodsuckers end: they do not install filters to purify water like they do for blood. They do not live in coffins, they do not turn others into others like themselves, as is said in myths. They live ordinary lives, study, work, have families, unlike myths and movie heroes.
So to the question, Do vampires exist today? You can say yes, but not in that sense. In fact, it is better to have vampires like these in the world, ours, than the vampires who existed in the distant past. It’s much calmer with ours, isn’t it?
Sources: www.topauthor.ru, www.bolshoyvopros.ru, irc.lv, zombihit.ru, kak-legko.ru
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According to ancient legends, vampires can be found in different countries, including in their homeland - Transylvania and Romania. These are eternally hungry creatures. Without the taste of blood, their “life” simply has no meaning. Despite such an encouraging title of the article, at present no one has yet been able to provide genuine evidence of the real existence of vampires. For now, we can only speculate and rely on various ancient evidence that has survived to the present day.
For example, the famous German occultist and philosopher Georg Conrad Horst seriously claimed that he personally knew several vampires. He even gave them his own: “Vampires are dead bodies that live in graves and leave them at night in search of food. They suck blood from living people. They feed on this blood. Without the taste of blood, their existence will be meaningless. Vampires are not affected by decay."
History also knows other evidence. For example, in the early culture of the Native Americans (Indians), who once inhabited Central America, there were terms such as “bloodsuckers” and “vampirism.” Unlike Georg Horst's formulations, their idea of vampires was more realistic. The fact is that the Indians called living people vampires, and not dead bodies that supposedly come to life at night.
The so-called “vampires” did not attack people, as real ghouls described in world folklore do, but simply fed on the blood of animals. However, from all of the above, it would be premature to draw any conclusions regarding the real existence of vampires, even at the present time. Such evidence is just vague guesswork. To call them facts is hard to come by.
The most famous vampire is Dracula
Perhaps the most famous vampire in the world is Vlad the Impaler. This is the same Count Dracula, the film about which was shot by director Francis Ford Coppola based on the novel of the same name by writer Bram Stoker. Tepes was a Romanian voivode and later the ruler of Romania. It is known that Count Dracula loved to kill people, torturing them in every possible way before death.
One of his favorite tortures was the so-called “bloody game”: the cruel ruler of Romania would sink his teeth into the carotid artery of the martyr and literally suck the blood out of his victim. By the way, this is where the so-called “fashion” for vampire fangs came from. Of course, we are not talking about true vampirism here, but it was Tepes who became the permanent “Dracula” of all times and peoples.
Secret behind seven seals
If we consider “vampirism” not as a medical disease, but as a mystical aspect of human existence, then at present no one has yet been able to present to the public genuine evidence of the existence of vampires. Until humanity does this, no true vampires who “sleep” in coffins during the day and leave them at night should worry anyone, much less frighten anyone! They simply will have nowhere to come from. This means that the answer to the question posed in the article will be negative.
There is even official evidence of the existence of vampires. For example, in 1721, a 62-year-old resident of East Prussia named Peter Blagojevich passed away. So, official documents indicate that after his death he visited his son several times, who was later found dead. In addition, the alleged vampire attacked several neighbors, drinking their blood, from which they also died.
One of the residents of Serbia, Arnold Paole, claimed that he was bitten by a vampire during haymaking. After the death of this vampire victim, several of his fellow villagers died. People began to believe that he had turned into a vampire and began to hunt people.
In the cases described above, the authorities conducted investigations that did not produce realistic results, since the witnesses interviewed unconditionally believed in the existence of vampires, basing their testimony on this. The investigations only created panic among local residents; people began to dig up the graves of those suspected of vampirism.
Similar sentiments spread in the West. In Rhode Island (USA), Mercy Brown died at the young age of 19 in 1982. After this, someone in her family fell ill with tuberculosis. The unfortunate girl was blamed for the incident, after which her father, together with the family doctor, two months after the funeral, took the corpse out of the tomb, cut out the heart from the chest and set it on fire.
The theme of vampirism has survived to this day.
Needless to say, tales of vampires were believed in the past. In 2002-2003, an entire state in Africa, Malawi, was engulfed in a real “vampire epidemic.” Local residents threw stones at a group of people suspected of vampirism. One of them was beaten to death. At the same time, the authorities were accused of nothing less than a criminal conspiracy with vampires!
In 2004, a story occurred related to the name of Tom Petre. His relatives were afraid that he had become a vampire, they pulled his body out of the grave and burned the torn out heart. The collected ashes were mixed with water and drunk.
The first scientific publication on the topic of vampirism was made by Michael Ranft in 1975. In his book “De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis” he wrote that death after contact with a vampire could occur due to the fact that a living person became infected with cadaveric poison or the disease that he had during life. And nightly visits to loved ones could be nothing more than a hallucination of especially impressionable people who believed in all these stories.
Porphyria disease - the legacy of a vampire
It was only in the second half of the twentieth century that scientists discovered a disease called porphyria. This disease is so rare that it occurs in only one person in a hundred thousand, but it is inherited. The disease is caused by the body being unable to produce red blood cells. As a result, oxygen and iron are in short supply, and pigment metabolism is disrupted.
The myth that vampires are afraid of sunlight is due to the fact that in patients with porphyria, under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, the breakdown of hemoglobin begins. But they don’t eat garlic because it contains sulfonic acid, which aggravates the disease.
The patient's skin turns brown, becomes thinner, and exposure to the sun leaves scars and ulcers on it. The incisors become exposed as the skin around the mouth, lips and gums dry out and become tough. This is how the legends about vampire fangs appeared. The teeth take on a reddish or red-brown tint. Mental disorders cannot be ruled out.
Dracula may have had porphyria
It has been suggested that among those suffering from porphyria was the Wallachian governor Vlad the Impaler or Dracula, who later became the prototype for the hero of the famous novel written by Bram Stoker.
About a thousand years ago, the disease was very common among the villages of Transylvania. Most likely this was due to the fact that the villages were small and many closely related marriages took place in them.
Renfield syndrome
At the end of the conversation about vampires, one cannot help but recall the mental disorder named after another of Stoker’s heroes - “Renfield syndrome.” Patients suffering from this disease drink the blood of animals or people. Serial maniacs had this disease, including Peter Kürten from Germany and Richard Trenton Chase from the USA, who drank the blood of people they killed. These are real vampires.
The beautiful legend about immortal and deadly attractive creatures that draw vital energy from the blood of their victims is just a terrible story.
