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Sucker For Blood Suckers
Posted by GuestPoster in -TV and Entertainment
Teens go gaga over vampires with the sparkling bodies, eyes like the color of amber, lips red as cherry. This is totally not the conventional vampire description. But where and how did tales about vampires originate? What is the meaning of names of the famous vampire in history? And what does your name mean in vampire name generator programs?
Conventional vampires are mythical beings believed to be reanimated from human corpses by undeparted souls or demons. They usually leave the graves and go on disturbing the living until they are impaled, burned or driven a stake through the heart.
Vampires are mythological beings who feed on human essence that is primarily from their blood.
There are even beliefs that vampires are as old as human being itself. Vampires originated in the 18th century in Western Europe , where vampire superstitions even created mass hysteria.
The word vampire appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary on 1734, and it is even discussed in early German Literature.
Vampires are oftenly described as bloated in appearance, dark in skin color or ruddy in complexion due to the drinking of human blood. Some cultures believe that vampires have pale skin, they grow fangs and they do not have reflection in mirrors. . Also it is believed that they would die if they bask themselves in the sun in just seconds.
Also there are things called Apotropaics which are believed to grant you protection from vampires. A common example is the garlic, also wild rose branch and hawthorn plant is believed to cause harm to vampires. Other examples are sacred items such as holy water, crucifixes and rosaries. Destroying vampires include decapitation or staking a wooden stake through the heart.
The most famous vampire known in history is probably Count Dracula, from the famous book of Bram Stoker published in May of 1897.
The etymology of the name Dracula was derived from the Wallachian Ruler Vlad III also known as Vlad Tepes. He was known as Vlad the Impaler because he had killed almost 100,000 people using his favourite method of impaling them on a sharp pole. Vlad’s father, Vlad II is a member of a secret order of knights called Order of the Dragons, founded by King Sigismund in Hungary. This order upholds Christianity and they defended the Roman Empire against the Turks. His bears the symbol of Dragon for his coinage and in Romania the word for dragon is ‘drac’ and ‘ul’ as the definitive article. So Vlad II was known as ‘Vlad the Dragon’.
If you are wondering what does your name mean in vampire literature, or if you wanna have a cool vampire name, you can access the internet for free vampire name generators. Some of them are Vampire.com , Horrorphile.com, and vampirenamegenerators.com , you can try them just for fun!
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