There are vampires, yes or no?

We humans enjoy the terror that we believe we can control and the stories about vampires and other fantastic beings fall within these parameters.Novels, movies, series..., but also medical cases that Sometimes they sow doubt in our minds and lead us to ask ourselves this question: There are vampires, yes or no?

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There are vampires , Yes or no? Let's see!

To begin with, you have to be clear about what a vampire is.A vampire , according to the most common tradition, is a creature that It feeds, in order to remain active, something that steals from other living beings: its vital essence.In Western European culture what is believed that the vampire extracts from the living is the blood , but at other times it simply sucked energy and health.

There are vampires, yes or no?

Actually, there is a disease whose symptoms are very similar to those of vampirism: congenital erythropoietic porphyria.Those who suffer from it do not tolerate garlic , they have extremely pale skin, they are photosensitive, since sunlight causes them damage to the skin and therefore they prefer to go out at night, and suffer dental alterations that cause the gums to retract and perpetually redden as well as strong anemia, which used to be prescribed blood-rich foods.Perhaps porphyria is at the base of the myth of modern vampires , but people affected by this disease do not feel the need to suck the blood of others.

There are vampires, yes or no?

Psychiatrists have classified a disorder that they have called« clinical vampirism »that develops as a type of post-traumatic stress in which the witness of a particularly traumatic and bloody event develops a pleasure to see blood and subsequently the need to drink it, first of animals and then of human beings.This is the only type of "vampire" that exists .Its disorder, although it is very rare, it has psychiatric treatment.

Real vampires?

Most stories about real vampires they are based on superstition and lack of medical knowledge.In many places, for centuries, a certain type of death was attributed, in which previously the patients were especially due to the existence of characters that sucked their blood.There were two cases in which even members of sick families were unearthed and the hearts of two girls whose corpses had not been corrupted.

Vampire men ??

You may think that Vlad Tepes III, the count of Romania who inspired the figure of Dracula, was really a vampire , however it is not so.This ruler went down in history for being extremely cruel and bloodthirsty, but not for drinking anyone's blood.

Among recent events crossed out by vampirism or real vampires is the case of the vampire from Turkey.The name of the young man who is unknown is unknown.He starred in the matter.Apparently it was a man who started to feel throwing an insatiable need for blood, he made cuts in his own body and when he did not have enough, he got bags of blood from the local bank.Finally he dedicated himself to attacking people on the street, with a knife or bites, to suck the blood from the wounds.The doctors determined that he had a serious psychiatric disorder, a result of having witnessed several crimes during his childhood and adolescence.Psychiatrists have diagnosed him "clinical vampirism" , but now he is spare part of his ailment.

Vampire women ??

Few women throughout history have been labeled as " women vampire «.In Mysterious we have seen the cases of Elizabeth Bathory or Magdalena Solis.The case of Elizabeth Bathory and some other show us women who enjoyed high social positions and held some kind of power.The profile of these women, supposed vampire women , leads directly to the question of the reason why they were accused: it was a way to undermine the power they or their families had with accusations that, although in most cases they had a real base, they were exaggerated and falsified to discredit them.

There are vampires, yes or no?

Magdalena Solis, a murderer considered a vampire woman

In other cases, such as Magdalena Solis, it seems to be simply women who committed incomprehensible murders and were accused of vampirism since in their death rituals there was a great deal of sadism and blood ceremonies of the victims.

Vampire stories from around the world ??

There are many cultures around the world that count among their myths with vampire stories , which for them confirm that if there are vampires , either n female or male.The best known are the Vrykolakas or brucolacos, the aswang, the Philippine vampire, the baobhan sith, the Scottish vampire fairies or the jubokko, the Japanese vampire trees.They are all folk figures that scare people, but that really has not been proven to exist in any case.

There are vampires, yes or no?

In Europe the novel" Dracula "(1897) by Bram Stocker opened the way to hundreds of works on this type of characters, however before the work of Stocker there was another novel that I speak of vampires and that is believed to inspire Dracula's "father".The novel, with female protagonists and had subtle lesbian tones, is called "Carmilla" and was written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in 1871.If you want to know more about this work we invite you to read the post: The story of gay vampires that existed before Dr acula.

In conclusion, to the question of whether there are vampires , we must answer no, beyond the diseases we have mentioned, however, we will continue to enjoy the same the novels and movies about them.What do you think? For you, there are vampires, yes or no? If you want to meet another type of vampires who don't drink blood, but seem to be more common than you think, you can read the post:

-Emotional vampires: Beware of them!

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