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REAL VAMPIRES

Vampires have held the fascination of the public for hundreds of years. Many
point to Bram Stoker's Dracula as the source of this fascination, but vampire
obsession has existed for much longer.

Like all legends, the vampire has evolved throughout history. Vampires exist in
many different cultures under many different names. In ancient times, the word
vampire did not exist. Gods, demons, and evil spirits were often associated with
drinking blood or eating human flesh.

Ancient Times (Pre 500 AD)

The Egyptian goddess Sekhmet is one of the earliest known accounts of vampirism.
When Ra became angry because mankind was not following his laws he sent Sekhmet
as punishment. She was called the Lady of the Bloodbath. She would slaughter
humans, rip their bodies apart, and drink their blood. Sekhmet can be traced to
at least 3000 BCE. She is one of the earliest known versions of the modern day
vampire. The Feast of Sekhmet was held each year in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians
would drink beer mixed with pomegranate juice. Beer turned red, beer that
symbolized blood.

Around the same time in nearby Mesopotamia, there were numerous blood-drinking
demons. The Persians may have been the first to tell tales of these demons.
Excavated Persian pottery shards contain images of demons attempting to drink
human blood. Estries was a female demon who was a shape shifter. She appeared to
men as a beautiful woman. She would seduce them and then drink their blood. In
Babylon, Lilitu was the Temptation Demon. She appeared as a seductive woman who
drank the blood of men.



Lilitu led to the Hebrew myth of Lilith. There are numerous contradictory
stories of Lilith. In some, Lilith is Adam's first wife. In others Lilith is a
demon of the night that lives by drinking the blood of babies.

In Ancient Greece there was Empusa. She was a blood-drinking demon who
transformed into a young woman and seduced men. Lamia, daughter of Poseidon, was
one of Zeus's many human lovers. When Hera found out, she killed all of Lamia's
children. Lamia swore vengeance and began preying upon young children in their
beds at night, drinking their blood.

The most common theme in ancient times was a demon that shape shifted into a
beautiful woman. The demon seduced and preyed upon men, drinking their blood.



In 130 BCE the Silk Road opened and connected the Egyptian port of Alexandria to
southern Europe and eastern Asia. The Silk Road is credited with intermixing
cultural beliefs throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. Egyptian mythology was
particularly inspiring as it introduced the concepts of eternal life after
death, reincarnation, and numerous deities. Legends, folklore, and tales spread
across the continents.

Medieval Times (500 AD to 1500 AD)

In Hungary, belief in vampires has persisted since at least 800 AD. The demon
Izcacus was a blood-drinking demon. The word has roots in ancient Turkish. The
Hungarians and Turks made contact along the Silk Road in the late 8th century.
The Turks introduced the Hungarians to these early vampires, who were in turn
most likely descendents of the Mesopotamian vampires. Later, in the 12th
century, a pagan shaman was on trial in the city of Saeospatak. The shaman again
tells of Izcacus and issues a warning. Izcacus would be called upon to destroy
the Hungarians (who were now Christian).

The upir (upyr, upior, upier, upyri, upor, and numerous other variants) has
Russian, Ukrainian, and Slavic origins. In 1047 AD a manuscript of the Book of
Psalms is transcribed by a priest from Glagolitic into Cyrillic for the Russian
Prince Vladmiri Yaroslavovich. In a colophon, the priest writes his name as is
Upir' Likhyi, which means Wicked Vampire.



Across Slavic culture, the upir is traditionally an unclean spirit that
possesses a dead body. This undead creature requires the blood of the living to
survive. The upir is jealous and vengeful toward the living. To kill an upir you
must stake it in its heart, burn it by fire, drown it in holy water, or
decapitate it.

Vlad III Dracula, ruler of Walachia (modern-day Romania) lived 1431 - 1476. He
was the son of Vlad II Dracul. Locally he was considered a hero. He was charged
with protecting Christianity in Eastern Europe. He led raids against the
invading Ottomans and protected the Romanians and the Bulgarians. He gained
additional notoriety for the unusually cruel and brutal punishment of his
Ottoman enemies. Although there are no convincing historical accounts of Vlad
drinking blood, he would later become the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Modern Times (1500 AD to Today)

Elizabeth Bathory (Hungarian, 1560 - 1614) was born in Transylvania. She was a
countess and a serial killer. She tortured and killed hundreds of young women
between 1585 and 1609. Her victim count may have been as high as 650. To retain
her youth, she bathed in the blood of her victims, young virgin girls. She would
later become known as the Blood Countess.

Greek folklore tells of the vrykolakas. A person became a vrykolakas when they
led a sacrilegious way of life, suffered excommunication, or were buried in
unconsecrated ground. After death they would rise from their grave and their
bodies did not decay. They would roam the village at night and cause all kinds
of havoc. Then, each night before dawn, they would return to their grave to
rest. In 1645 Leo Allatios, a Greek catholic, wrote a letter to his friend about
the vrykolakas. It was titled De quorundam Graecorum Opinationibus.



In 1656 in the region of Istria (modern-day Croatia), Jure Grando died. For at
least 16 years after his death, each night Jure rose from his grave. He
terrorized the village, his former family, and drank human blood. Eventually the
town revolted and went to his grave and performed an exorcism. Jure was
decapitated and the town never saw him again.

In 1748 the word vampyre appears in the poem, Der Vampir by Heinrich August
Ossenfelder. This is considered to be the first introduction of the word vampire
into the English language.

In 1897 Bram Stoker publishes Dracula.

Fictional and real vampires have appeared in mythology, folklore, and our
writings for thousands of years.

The Vampire in Literature

Numerous vampire stories were written prior to the popularization of the vampire
myth in pop culture.

The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori (1819)
A short story that exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public of
the period. It was originally mis-published under the authorship of Lord Byron
(Polidori was Lord Byron's personal physician). The tale accounts the exploits
of Lord Ruthven, a British nobleman and vampire. Lord Ruthven bore more than a
passing resemblance to Lord Byron and became a highly influential model for the
Byronic vampires of literature.
Varney The Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer (1845-47)
A Victorian-era gothic horror story which first appeared in a series of
pamphlets between 1845 and 1847. Inexpensive and gruesome, the collective work
was published in book form in 1847. The tale runs 868 pages and is divided into
220 chapters. The story revolves around the persecution of the Bannerworth
family by Sir Francis Varney, a vampire who in the early chapters enters the
bedroom of the daughter of the house (Flora) and sucks her blood.
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
A compelling gothic novel of a lesbian vampire, set in darkest central Europe.
It tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a
female vampire named Carmilla. The story was to greatly influence Bram Stoker in
the writing of Dracula. It also served as the basis for several films, including
Hammer's The Vampire Lovers (1970), Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses (1960), and
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932).
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The most well known vampire story, the novel is mainly composed of journal
entries, letters, and newspaper clippings. It has been suggested that the story
was based on Vlad Tepes, a medieval figure of extraordinary bloodthirst. History
records that Vlad Tepes impaled his enemies and cut off their heads. He ruled
Walachia as Vlad III during the 15th century (modern day Romania) and signed his
letters as Vlad Dracula. Dracula translates into "son of the devil".


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The characters in Vampire look equally good. They're stylized to move with an
exaggerated gait, and can brandish a wide variety of great-looking deadly
weapons, which they'll use in the game's frequent combat sequences. Switching
weapons and armor will affect your character's appearance, and even his 3D
animated portrait at the bottom of the screen. Yet although Vampire's characters
are lavishly detailed compared with those in virtually any other computer game
to date, you'll still find that they could have looked a little better.
Specifically, some of the texture mapping on the characters looks too flat,
particularly Christof's own flowing cape - otherwise, the vampires' animated
faces are offset by their perfectly still posture during the game's dialogue
sequences. The in-game cinematics lack any sort of dramatic tension, as your
characters will merely stand still and deliver their lines - and often poorly,
on account of the game's almost uniformly bad voice acting. If any action occurs
during the cinematics, it's marred by stilted animation and bad camerawork. As
such, it's surprisingly disappointing how weak a lot of Vampire's presentation
is, in light of the overall quality of the game's appearance.

The weak cinematics and voice acting might begin to explain why the game has
comparatively little dialogue overall, and why it has almost no character
interaction whatsoever. You'll occasionally be faced with choosing from two
different options during the dialogue, but in hindsight - or in replaying to
test the other alternative - you'll realize that most of these decisions are
trivial. Though the game's script uses a lot of fancy language and generally
reads well, you'll likely find yourself growing weary of the game's typically
static, drawn-out monologues. Thus, you'll find that you'll meet very few
interesting characters through the course of the game. Even Christof himself
fails to develop into a strong protagonist, despite the fact that he's got a
perfectly good dilemma to work with as he struggles with his vampiric existence
in the wake of his devout religious upbringing. But by much later in the game,
Christof merely comes across as having grown used to being a vampire rather than
discovering anything about himself, which is disappointing. Therefore, just as
Vampire's dialogue sequences are largely clumsy and forgettable, its plot is
basically boring. And that's a shame - especially considering the scope of the
game's source material, which along with the fact that the game is entirely
linear, should have allowed for a more interesting story.

But because there isn't much of a story in Vampire anyway, what ought to have
saved the game was its near-constant action sequences - but unfortunately,
they're every bit as weak as the plot. Vampire's real-time combat is simplistic
and often chaotic. The game's point-and-click interface requires you to merely
keep clicking on your target until it dies. If you have one to three other
members in your party, they'll join the fray and attack with you. Unfortunately,
since the game's characters take up so much space onscreen, your companions will
have a bad habit of stepping right in front of your mouse cursor, causing you to
halt your attack against your intended target. Similarly, you'll have to
navigate through fairly narrow corridors a great percentage of the game, and in
such cases your party members will have a lot of trouble getting past you to
face your enemies. In later portions of Vampire when your group is armed with
guns and such, you'll witness your companions wasting plenty of ammunition while
foolishly trying to shoot their enemies through walls - and the guns themselves
are awkward, underpowered, and slow. The game's transition from the Dark Ages
into contemporary times is certainly its best moment, but you'll find that a lot
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