Are there vampires in our world? Do vampires exist in real life among us and how to recognize. Werewolf and vampire whose power is more powerful

Vampire legends are as old as the human imagination itself. Despite the lack of annals that would help establish the exact era of the appearance of these deadly creatures, vampires have always been part of folklore. And even when mankind reached a new intellectual level, they returned and attacked the consciousness of people through artistic images created by writers and filmmakers. The modern vampire is in many ways superior to its ancient counterpart of myth and legend, who was portrayed as a terrible, blood-sucking creature with long claws, pale skin, and sleeping in a coffin.

The mystery surrounding vampires further fuels interest in them. In addition, a new cult has appeared - vampirism! And as a result, today the belief in vampires is stronger than ever. The Internet is teeming with questions: Do vampires exist in real life? Are there vampires among us? Who saw the vampire? Where to find a vampire? These questions have been discussed thousands of times by people all over the world.

There is no point in denying that vampires really exist, only you need to decide who you mean by the word vampire.

Among us there are people who call themselves real vampires - Sanguinary. But the Sanguinarians are not vampires! These are the Sanguinaries! Yes, for a normal existence they need blood, from which they receive vital energy, without which they are weak and sick. They are either born vampires, or are looking for ways to become vampires because they consider it their calling. Somewhere in adolescence, they begin to acutely feel a lack of blood, which is crowned with an event called "awakening". Outwardly, real vampires almost do not differ from us, and of course, they are not bloodthirsty creatures. They are content with a small amount of blood and not every day. Most of them feed on animal blood, which they buy, for example, at a slaughterhouse. Even if it is human blood, it was obtained from voluntary donors in compliance with all precautionary rules.
As for supernatural abilities, they do not have them, as well as immortality.

I am one of many who have been looking for an answer to the question: do vampires exist in real life? Having read hundreds of books on vampirism, I will try to state my opinion on this.

Unfortunately, information about vampires is varied and often contradictory. Today's notion of vampires has developed on the basis of films and fiction, the authors of which have no idea about them, as a result of which we have received a fantasy product endowed with human principles, feelings and even morality. But vampires are not people endowed with superpowers. Vampires are other creatures from the world of the supernatural, and they are a very small and not the most powerful part of this world. Vampirism is the way these creatures exist. There are other ways of being, and other beings. The human mind is simply not able to cognize all forms of existence of the material and spiritual world. Knowing one hundredth of the vampires, we can only blindly assume what they are mysterious creatures. I have no doubts that they exist in real life and beyond!

Let's turn to history... In the distant prehistoric times, when there were very few people, and one state was at an insurmountable distance from another, that is, practically isolated, there was no possibility of influence of some peoples on others. And yet in myths, legends and folklore different countries- Persia and China, the Aztecs and India, Malaysia and Europe and many others, there are creatures that fall under the description of vampires, only they call them differently.

And what do you say to the fact that even the methods of killing vampires in South America, ancient Europe, the Scandinavians and the Greeks were absolutely identical. We are told about this by archaeological excavations of vampire burial sites, which look the same everywhere. Yes, and the ritual of killing and burial of vampires is essentially the same. Agree equally, you can only do things that really exist, dictated by life.

Many deny the existence of vampires, but have long reconciled themselves and believed in the existence of people with superpowers, such as psychics, soothsayers, hypnotists, and generally gifted people. Science also cannot explain these abilities, but recognizes the fact of their existence. Why not believe in vampires who disturbed the consciousness of entire nations.

And stop fooling us that vampires were considered patients with porphyria. It has been proven that this is a very rare form of genetic pathology, and it is not known whether people had this disease before or whether this rare genetic anomaly arose with the advent of nuclear weapons, genetically modified products, polluted ecology, etc. The study of vampires was carried out by deeply enlightened people, they would confused sick people with vampires. And vampirism is not a disease, but a different form of life. Few people know the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "If there was a true and proven history in the world, it is the history of vampires"

The cruel world of people hated and feared vampires. History is well aware of cases of the Inquisition not only over sorcerers, witches, but also vampires. Entire organizations were created to fight vampires. But from this, vampires only become stronger, smarter, more cunning. They are real masters of disguise, so they easily disguise themselves among people and know perfectly well in advance where the Inquisition can expect them. It is difficult to say what a vampire looks like because the human appearance is just an outer shell, inside which a creature lives alien to this world and you cannot evaluate it as good or bad, it is just different.

What these creatures are capable of, we also do not know. One thing is certain: they need blood to sustain life. We humans are a source of food for them and they don't give a damn about us. Personally, I believe that vampires, both before and now, kill people for blood. And vegan vampires are the invention of writers who are trying to give them human features. Where are the victims? - you ask. Hundreds of thousands of people go missing every year. In Russia alone, more than 120,000 missing people are on the wanted list, and this is the population of a large regional center. Almost 2 million people go missing every year in the world.

Scientists, doctors, historians tried to explain the phenomenon of vampirism, but the riddle remains unsolved. There is still so much unknown, inexplicable in the world that we can only hope and believe that in the near future we will be able to say with confidence: vampires exist!

Now books and films about vampires, their lives and their interaction with ordinary people have become very popular. After reading a book or watching a movie, teenagers often ask themselves the question - do vampires exist today? Where did they come from, where was the first mention of them, and do such cults threaten us with something? Today we will find out the opinion of one scientist, as well as consider a couple of important aspects of this hobby.

To begin with, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with a video recorded from an American television channel, which raises the issue of vampire fascination among teenagers. What could be dangerous about this?

Where did the vampires themselves come from in terms of history? Do they really exist?
Vampires are mythological or folklore evil spirits. They are undead that feed on human and/or animal blood. They are also a frequent subject in movies or fiction, although fictional vampires have taken on some differences from mythological vampires (see Characteristics of Fiction Vampires). In folklore, the term is usually used to refer to a blood-sucking creature from Eastern European legends, but similar creatures from other countries and cultures are often referred to as vampires. Characteristic features of the vampire in different legends vary greatly. Some cultures have stories of non-human vampires, such as bats, dogs, and spiders.

Popular beliefs about vampires
It seems that before the 19th century, vampires in Europe were described as terrible monsters from the grave. Vampires were usually suicidal, criminals, or evil sorcerers, although in some cases the "spawn of sin" that became a vampire could transfer its vampirism to innocent victims. However, sometimes the victim of a cruel, untimely or violent death could also become a vampire. Most Romanian vampire beliefs (with the exception of strigoi) and European vampire stories are of Slavic origin. A vampire can be killed by thrusting a stake or something silver (bullet, dagger) into the heart or burned.

Slavic vampires
In Slavic beliefs, the causes of vampirism could be the birth in a water shell ("shirt") of the fetus, with teeth or a tail, conception on certain days, "wrong" death, excommunication and wrong funeral rituals. To prevent the dead from becoming a vampire, one should put a crucifix in the coffin, place some object under the chin to prevent the body from eating the funeral shroud, nail clothes to the walls of the coffin for the same reason, put sawdust in the coffin (the vampire wakes up in the evening and must count each a grain of these sawdust, which takes a whole evening, so that he will die when dawn comes), or pierce the body with thorns or stakes. In the case of stakes, the basic idea was to drive the stake through the vampire into the ground, thus nailing the body to the ground. Some people preferred to bury would-be vampires with scythes over their necks so that the dead would decapitate themselves if they started to rise.
Evidence that there is a vampire in the area includes the death of cattle, sheep, relatives or neighbors, an exhumed body that appears to be alive with regrown nails or hair, a body swollen like a drum, or blood on the mouth paired with a ruddy face.

Vampires like the rest devilry"Slavic folklore, they were afraid of garlic and liked to count grains, sawdust, etc. Vampires could be destroyed with a stake, decapitation (the Kashubians put their heads between their feet), burning, repeating the funeral service, splashing the body with holy water (or exorcism, the rite of exile evil spirits).
The name of the Serbian vampire Sava Savanović was introduced to the general public by Milovan Glišić in his novel Ninety Years Later (Posle devedeset godina, Ninety Years Later). Another "Danubian vampire" Mihailo Katic became famous thanks to his ancient family, which was once in the "Order of the Dragon" (Dracula's father was also there), and also due to his habit of captivating women and drinking blood from them after their complete submission him. Presumably born in the 15th century, but the date of death is unknown. According to one version, he is still wandering somewhere restless.

In the old Russian anti-pagan work The Word of St. Gregory (written in the 11th-12th century) it is stated that Russian pagans made sacrifices to vampires.

Romanian vampires
Tales of vampiric creatures have also been found among the ancient Romans and among the Romanized inhabitants of Eastern Europe, the Romanians (known as Vlachs in a historical context). Romania is surrounded by Slavic countries, so it's not surprising that Romanian and Slavic vampires are similar. Romanian vampires are called strigoi, from the ancient Greek term strix meaning a screaming owl, which also came to mean a demon or witch.
There are different types of strigoi. Living Strigoi are living witches who become vampires when they die. At night, they can send their souls to meet other witches or strigoi, which are reanimated bodies that return to suck the blood of their family members, livestock, and neighbors. Other kinds of vampires in Romanian folklore include the Moroi and the Prickly.

Those born in a "shirt", with an extra nipple, extra hair, born too early, born to a mother who crossed the path of a black cat, born with a tail, illegitimate children, as well as those who died unnatural deaths or died before baptism were doomed to become vampires, as well as well as the seventh child of the same sex in the family, the child of a pregnant woman who did not eat salt or who was looked at by a vampire or a witch. What's more, being bitten by a vampire meant an undeniable doom to vampire existence after death.

Vârcolac, sometimes mentioned in Romanian folklore, refers more to a mythical wolf that could devour the sun and moon (similar to Skoll and Hati in Norse mythology), and later became more associated with werewolves than vampires. (A person suffering from lycanthropy could turn into a dog, a pig or a wolf).
The vampire was usually seen attacking family and livestock, or throwing things around the house. It was believed that vampires, along with witches, were most active on St George's Day (April 22 in the Julian calendar, May 6 in the Gregorian calendar), the night when all kinds of evil come out of their lairs. Saint George's Day is still celebrated in Europe.

A vampire in a grave could be identified by holes in the ground, an undecomposed corpse with a red face, or if one of the feet was in the corner of the coffin. Living vampires were identified by distributing garlic in the church and observing those who did not eat it. Graves were often opened three years after the death of a child, five years after the death of a young man, and seven years after the death of an adult, to test the deceased for vampirism.

Measures to help prevent transformation into a vampire included removing the "shirt" from the newborn and destroying it before the infant could eat even a small part of it, careful preparations for the burial of dead bodies, including preventing animals from stepping over the corpse. Sometimes a thorny stalk of a wild rose was placed in the grave, and to protect against a vampire, garlic was placed on the windows and rubbed with garlic on cattle, especially on the day of St. George and St. Andrew.
To destroy a vampire, they would behead him, put garlic in his mouth, and then drive a stake into his body. By the 19th century, some also shot through the coffin with a bullet. If the bullet did not pass through, the body was dismembered, the parts burned, mixed with water, and given to family members as medicine.

Gypsy beliefs in vampires
Even today, gypsies feature prominently in vampire fiction books and films, no doubt influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which gypsies served Dracula by carrying his boxes of earth and guarding him.

Traditional gypsy beliefs include the idea that the soul of the deceased enters a world similar to ours, except that there is no death there. The soul remains close to the body and sometimes wants to return. Gypsy legends about the living dead enriched the legends about vampires in Hungary, Romania and the Slavic lands.

The ancestral home of the gypsies, India, has many vampire personalities. Bhut or Pret is the soul of a person who died an untimely death. At night, she wanders around the reanimated dead bodies and attacks the living, just like a vampire. In Northern India, according to legend, BrahmarākŞhasa, a vampire-like creature with a head topped with intestines and a skull from which it drank blood, can be found. Vetala and pishacha are slightly different creatures, but in some form they have a resemblance to vampires. Since Hinduism believes in the transmigration of souls after death, it is believed that through leading a vicious or dissolute life, as well as through sin and suicide, the soul is reincarnated into a similar type of evil spirits. This reincarnation is not determined at birth, etc., but is “earned” directly during life, and the fate of such an evil spirit is predetermined by the fact that they must achieve liberation from this yoni and re-enter the world of mortal flesh at the next reincarnation.

The most famous Indian deity associated with drinking blood is Kali, who has fangs, wears garlands of corpses or skulls, and has four arms. Her temples are near cremation grounds. She and the goddess Durga fought the demon Raktabija, who could multiply with every drop of shed blood. Kali drank all his blood so that not a drop was spilled, thus winning the battle and killing Raktabija.
Interestingly, the name Kali is an appendix to the officially unrecognized gypsy saint Sarah (Sara). According to legend, the gypsy Sara served the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene and landed with them on the coast of France. Gypsies still hold the ceremony on the night of May 25 in the very French village where the event is supposed to have taken place. Since the sanctuary of Sara Kali is located underground, local residents have long been suspicious of the nightly worship of the "gypsy saint", and among the versions put forward by them were the involvement of the cult of Sara Kali in Satanism and vampire orgies organized by gypsies.

Vampires in gypsy folklore are often called simply mullo (dead, dead). It is believed that the vampire comes back and does evil things and/or drinks the blood of someone (usually relatives who caused their death or did not observe the proper funeral ceremony, or who kept the deceased's property instead of destroying it, as required by custom). Vampire women may return, lead a normal life, and even marry, but will exhaust the husband.

In general, in gypsy legends, vampires are distinguished by an increased sexual appetite.
Anyone who had an unusual appearance, such as missing a finger or having animal-like appendages, a cleft lip or palate, bright blue eyes, etc., could become a vampire. If no one saw how the person died, then the deceased became a vampire; as well as if the corpse swelled up before it had time to bury. Plants, dogs, cats, and even farming tools could become vampires. If a pumpkin or melon is left in the house for too long, it will begin to move, make noise, or show blood on it.

To protect themselves from the vampire, the gypsies inserted steel needles into the heart of a corpse or placed pieces of steel in his mouth, over his eyes, ears, and between his fingers during burial. They also put hawthorn in the sock of a corpse, or drove hawthorn stakes into the legs. Further measures were to drive stakes into the grave, pour boiling water over it, decapitate the corpse or burn it.

According to the late Serbian ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović, the Romani people of Kosovo believed that vampires were invisible to most people. However, they could be seen "brother and sister, who are twins, were born on Saturday and put on their underpants and shirts upside down." So the settlement could be protected from vampires if such twins were found. This couple could see a vampire on the street at night, but immediately after the vampire sees them, he will have to run away.

Some Common Features of Vampires in Folklore
hard to do general description folklore vampire, as his features vary greatly between cultures.
A vampire is a relatively immortal creature, you can kill him, but he does not age. In various works of European folklore, vampires are mentioned, whose age is more than 1000 years. A vampire is a supernatural being and possesses physical strength that is many times greater than that of a human, not to mention supernatural abilities.

The appearance of a European vampire consists largely of features by which it can be distinguished from an ordinary corpse, one has only to open the grave of a suspected vampire. The vampire has a healthy appearance and ruddy skin (possibly pale), he is often plump, he has grown hair and nails, and everything else he is completely undecayed.
The most common way to destroy a vampire is to drive a stake through its heart, decapitate it, and completely incinerate the body. To prevent someone who might become a vampire from rising from the grave, the body was buried upside down, the tendons at the knees were cut, or poppy seeds were placed on the alleged vampire's grave ground to force him to count them all night. Chinese vampire stories also state that if a vampire stumbles upon a sack of rice along the way, he/she will count all the grains. Similar myths are recorded in the Indian peninsula. South American tales of witches and other kinds of evil or mischievous spirits and beings also speak of a similar tendency in their characters. There are cases when people suspected of vampirism were buried face down, and a large brick or stone was pushed into their mouths. Such remains were discovered in 2009 by an Italian-American team of archaeologists in the historic center of Venice. The remains of a supposed vampire with a brick driven into its mouth.

Items that protected from vampires (as well as from other supernatural beings) were garlic (more typical of European legends), sunlight, wild rose stem, hawthorn and all sacred things (cross, holy water, crucifix, rosary, star of David etc.), as well as an aloe hanging behind or near the door, according to South American superstitions. In Eastern legends, sacred things such as the Shinto seal were often protected from vampires.

It is sometimes believed that vampires can shape-shift beyond the common stereotype of a bat seen in movies and cartoons. Vampires could transform into wolves, rats, moths, spiders, snakes, owls, ravens, and more. Vampires from European legends do not cast shadows and have no reflection. Perhaps this is due to the lack of a soul in a vampire.

There is a belief that a vampire cannot enter a house without being invited. In particular, this is mentioned in S. Lukyanenko's novels "The Night Watch" and "Day Watch", Stephen King's "The Lot", the series "The Vampire Diaries", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", "True Blood" and the anime series "Departed" (Shiki). And also in the films "Salem's Lot", "Let Me In" and "Fright Night".
In Christian tradition, vampires cannot enter a church or other sacred place, as they are servants of the devil.

Vampire controversy in the 18th century
In the 18th century, there was a serious panic about vampires in Eastern Europe. Even civil servants were drawn into the hunt for vampires.

It all started with an outbreak of complaints about vampire attacks in East Prussia in 1721 and in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1725 to 1734. Two famous (and for the first time fully documented by the authorities) cases involved Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole from Serbia. According to history, Blagojevich died at 62, but returned a couple of times after his death, asking for food from his son. The son refused and was found dead the next day. Blagojevich soon returned and attacked some of the neighbors, who bled to death.
In another famous case, Arnold Paole, a former soldier-turned-farmer allegedly attacked by a vampire a few years earlier, died while haymaking. After his death, people began to die and everyone believed that Paole was hunting the neighbors.

These two incidents were very well documented. Civil servants studied the cases and bodies, described them in reports, and after the Paola case, books were published that circulated throughout Europe. The debate raged for a generation. The problem was exacerbated by the village epidemic of the so-called vampire attacks, and the locals began to dig up the graves. Many scientists have argued that vampires don't exist and have cited rabies and premature burials.

Nevertheless, Antoine Augustine Calmet, a respected French theologian and scientist, collected all the information and in 1746 reflected it in a treatise in which, if not confirming the existence of vampires, then at least admitting it. He collected reports of vampire incidents and numerous readers, including both the critical Voltaire and his fellow demonologists, took the treatise as a statement that vampires existed. According to some modern research, and judging by the second edition of the work in 1751, Calmet was somewhat skeptical about the idea of ​​vampires as such. He acknowledged that some parts of the report, such as the preservation of corpses, could be true. Whatever Calmet's personal beliefs, his explicit support for the belief in vampires had a significant impact on other scientists at the time.

Eventually, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria sent her personal doctor, Gerhard van Swieten, to investigate the case. He concluded that vampires did not exist, and the empress issued a law forbidding the opening of graves and the desecration of bodies. It was the end of the vampire epidemic. Although by this time many people knew about vampires and soon the authors of fiction adopted and adapted the idea of ​​vampires, making it known to most people.

New England
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the belief in the rumor about vampires reached not only the ears of the king of England, but also spread throughout New England, in particular to Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut. In these areas, there are many documented cases of families dug up loved ones and removed hearts from corpses, believing that the deceased was a vampire responsible for illness and death in the family (although the word "vampire" was never used to describe him/her). It was believed that the night visits of those who died from deadly tuberculosis (or "consumption", as it was called in those days) to their family members became the cause of this disease. The most famous (and last recorded) case was that of nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown, who died in Exeter, USA, in 1892. Her father, assisted by the family doctor, pulled her out of the tomb two months after her death. Her heart was cut out and burned to ashes. A record of this incident was found among Bram Stoker's papers, and the story bears a close resemblance to the events in his classic novel Dracula.

Modern Beliefs in Vampires
Belief in vampires still exists. While some cultures have retained their original beliefs about the undead, most modern believers are influenced by the artistic portrayal of the vampire as portrayed in films and literature.

In the 1970s there were rumors (spread by the local press) of a hunting vampire in Highgate Cemetery in London. Adult vampire hunters crowded the graveyard in large numbers. Among the several books that describe this incident are those of Sean Manchester, a local resident who was one of the first to suggest the existence of the "Highgate Vampire" and who claimed to have banished and destroyed the entire vampire nest in the area.

In modern folklore of Puerto Rico and Mexico, the chupacabra is considered to be a creature that eats flesh or drinks the blood of domestic animals. This gives reason to consider her another type of vampire. "Chupacabra hysteria" has often been associated with deep economic and political crises, particularly in the mid-1990s.

In late 2002 and early 2003, hysteria about so-called vampire attacks spread throughout the African nation of Malawi. The mob stoned one to death and attacked at least four others, including Governor Eric Chiwaya, based on the belief that the government was in cahoots with the vampires.

In Romania in February 2004, some relatives of the late Toma Petre feared that he had become a vampire. They pulled out his corpse, ripped out his heart, burned it, and mixed the ashes with water to drink. In January 2005, there were rumors that someone had bitten several people in Birmingham, England. Then there were rumors of a vampire wandering the area. However, the local police claimed that no such crimes were reported. Apparently, this case was an urban legend.

In 2006, the American mathematical physicist Costas J. Efthimiou (Ph.D. in mathematical physics, associate professor at the University of Central Florida), along with his student Sohang Gandhi, published a paper that used a geometric progression to try to expose the eating habits of vampires, arguing that if every feeding of a vampire produces another vampire, then it is only a matter of time before the entire population of the Earth consists of vampires, or when vampires become extinct. However, the idea that the victim of a vampire becomes a vampire does not appear in all vampire folklore, and is not generally accepted among modern people who believe in vampires.

The Natural Phenomenon That Spread Belief in Vampires
Vampirism in folklore was usually associated with a series of deaths due to unspecified or mysterious diseases, usually in the same family or in the same small community. The epidemic character is evident in the classic cases of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole, as well as in the case of Mercy Brown and New England vampire superstition in general, when a specific disease, tuberculosis, was associated with outbreaks of vampirism (see above).
In 1725, Michael Ranft, in his book De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis, made the first attempt to explain vampire beliefs in a natural way. He says that in the event of the death of each peasant, someone else (most likely a person who had some kind of relationship with the deceased), who saw or touched the corpse, eventually died either from the same disease, or from insane delirium caused by just by looking at the deceased.

These dying people said that the deceased appeared to them and tortured them in various ways. Other people in that village were digging up the corpse to see what it was doing. Ranft gave the following explanation when talking about the case of Peter Plogojowitz: “This brave man died a sudden violent death. This death, whatever it was, may have triggered the visions that the survivors had after his death. Sudden death created anxiety in the family circle. Anxiety was paired with grief. Sorrow brings melancholy. Melancholy causes sleepless nights and painful dreams. These dreams weakened the body and spirit until the disease eventually led to death.

Some modern scholars object that the vampire stories may have been influenced by a rare disease called porphyria. This disease spoils the blood by disrupting the reproduction of heme. It was believed that porphyria was most common in the small villages of Transylvania (about 1000 years ago) where closely related breeding may have taken place. They say that if it weren’t for this “vampire disease”, there would be no myths about Dracula or other blood-drinking, light-fearing and fanged characters. For almost all the symptoms, a patient suffering from an advanced form of porphyria is a typical vampire, and they were able to find its cause and describe the course of the disease only in the second half of the 20th century, which was preceded by a merciless centuries-old struggle with ghouls: from 1520 to 1630 (110 years) in France alone executed more than 30,000 people recognized as werewolves.

It is believed that one person out of 200 thousand suffers from this rare form of genetic pathology (according to other sources, out of 100 thousand), and if it is recorded in one of the parents, then in 25% of cases the child also becomes ill with it. It is also believed that the disease is a consequence of incest. About 80 cases of acute congenital porphyria have been described in medicine, when the disease was incurable. Erythropoietic porphyria (Gunther's disease) is characterized by the fact that the body cannot produce the main component of blood - red cells, which in turn is reflected in the deficiency of oxygen and iron in the blood. Pigment metabolism is disturbed in the blood and tissues, and under the influence of solar ultraviolet radiation or ultraviolet rays, the breakdown of hemoglobin begins. Moreover, in the course of the disease, the tendons are deformed, which in extreme manifestations leads to twisting.

In porphyria, the non-protein part of hemoglobin, heme, is converted into a toxic substance that corrodes the subcutaneous tissue. The skin begins to take on a brown tint, becomes thinner and bursts from exposure to sunlight, so in patients over time the skin becomes covered with scars and ulcers. Ulcers and inflammation damage cartilage - the nose and ears, deforming them. Together with ulcerated eyelids and twisted fingers, this is incredibly disfiguring a person. Patients are contraindicated in sunlight, which brings them unbearable suffering.

The skin around the lips and gums dries out and tightens, resulting in the incisors being exposed to the gums, creating a grinning effect. Another symptom is the deposition of porphyrin on the teeth, which may turn red or reddish brown. In addition, patients' skin becomes very pale, during the day they feel a breakdown and lethargy, which is replaced by a more active lifestyle at night. It must be repeated that all these symptoms are characteristic only for the later stages of the disease, in addition, there are many other, less terrifying forms of it. As mentioned above, the disease was practically incurable until the second half of the 20th century.

There is evidence that in the Middle Ages, allegedly, patients were treated with fresh blood in order to replenish the deficit of red cells, which, of course, is incredible, since it is useless to use blood “orally” in such cases. Those suffering from porphyria could not eat garlic, as the sulfonic acid released by garlic aggravates the damage caused by the disease. The disease of porphyria can also be caused artificially, by using certain chemicals and poisons.

Some forms of porphyria are associated with neurological symptoms that can cause psychiatric disorders. However, the suggestion that porphyria sufferers crave heme from human blood, or that blood consumption can reduce the symptoms of porphyria, is based on a serious misunderstanding of the disease.

Rabies is another disease associated with vampire folklore. Sufferers of this disease avoid sunlight and do not look in mirrors, and have frothy saliva near their mouths. Sometimes this saliva can be red and resemble blood. However, as with porphyria, there is no evidence to indicate that rabies could have inspired vampire legends. Some modern psychologists identify a disorder called "clinical vampirism" (or Renfield syndrome, after Bram Stoker's insect-eating henchman Dracula) in which the victim is obsessed with drinking human or animal blood.

There have been several assassins who have performed vampire-like rituals on their victims. Serial killers Peter Kurten (German: Peter Kurten), who terrorized the surroundings of Dusseldorf (sometimes called the German Jack the Ripper), he lay in wait for his victims on country roads, killed them and drank their blood, and Richard Trenton Chase (Eng. Richard Trenton Chase) in The tabloids were called vampires after they were found drinking the blood of the people they killed. There were other cases of manifestation of vampirism: in 1974, 24-year-old Walter Locke was caught kidnapping 30-year-old electrician Helmut May, he bit through a vein in his arm and drank a cup of blood. In the same year, the police in England even received an order to patrol the cemeteries and to capture such subjects. Before that, in 1971, there was a court precedent related to the manifestation of vampirism, in one of the towns of North Wales, the local magistrate issued a court decision forbidding farm worker Alan Drake to drink blood.

Finding vampires in the graves
When the coffin of a suspected vampirist was opened, it was sometimes found that the corpse looked unusual. This was often taken as evidence of vampirism. However, corpses decompose at different rates, depending on temperature and soil composition, and some signs of decomposition are not widely known. This has led vampire hunters to falsely conclude that the dead body did not decompose at all, or to interpret signs of decay as signs of continued life.

Corpses swell as gases from decomposition gather in the torso and the blood tries to leave the body. This gives the body a "chubby", "fat" and "ruddy" appearance - changes that are most noticeable if the person was pale and thin during life. In the case of Arnold Paole, the exhumed corpse of an old woman, according to the neighbors, looked more well-fed and healthy than she was in life. It should be noted that folklore records almost always note that a suspected vampirist has ruddy or dark skin. Darkening of the skin is also caused by decomposition.

A decomposing corpse can be seen bleeding from the mouth and nose, which can give the impression that the corpse is a vampire that has recently drunk blood. If you drive a stake into the body, the body may begin to bleed, and the accumulated gases will begin to leave the body. A groan may be heard when gases begin to pass by the vocal cords or a characteristic sound when gases exit through the anus. The official reports on the case of Peter Plogojowitz speak of "other wild signs which I will not mention out of the highest respect".

After death, the skin and gums lose fluid and shrink, revealing some of the hair, nails, and teeth, even those that were hidden in the jaw. This creates the illusion that hair, nails and teeth have grown back. At a certain stage, the nails fall off, the skin comes off, as in the case report of Plogojowitz - the skin and nails that appeared were perceived as "new skin" and "new nails". Finally, as it decomposes, the body begins to move and warp, adding to the illusion that the corpse was moving.

In modern cinema, mystical heroes are quite popular, presented in the form of dead people who feed on human blood. Watching such films makes you think about the question, or is it just a figment of the directors' imagination. Oddly enough, but the exact positive or negative answer has not yet been received. The statements of individuals are known, both confirming and refuting this fact.

Who are vampires and do they really exist?

It is believed that dead people who have risen from their graves are vampires. However, certain reasons can change the essence of an ordinary person, turning him into a bloodsucker.

hallmarks of vampires

The most common include the following:

• magical influences;
• suicidal tendencies;
• maintaining an asocial lifestyle;
• lack of faith in God.

How to recognize a vampire among people

In addition, such people have distinctive external features, by which it is quite easy to determine their belonging to evil spirits. Pay attention to the relevant external data:

• pale skin;
• unusual shade of eye pupils;
• fangs appearing at the moments when this entity is ready to attack.

What is the power of energy vampires

The organs of bloodsuckers most often do not function, while stable brain function is observed.

• For life, they need constant nourishment, which they receive in the form of blood or energy of living people.
• Most often, creatures tend to unite in certain groups, each of which has its own leader. The constant desire for management implies high leadership positions in reality.

Are there real life vampires exact signs

How to recognize a vampire and is it possible for an ordinary person. If we talk about the exceptional abilities of these fictional creatures, then they are rather extraordinary and endowed with the following powers:

• possess immortality, superhuman strength;
• master hypnosis,
• able to walk on vertical walls;
• own fast movement;
• have a constant need to produce creatures equal to themselves.

Learn more about how to harness people's energy:

Werewolf and vampire whose power is more powerful

Entities belonging to different clans are in a state of constant unspoken competition in strengths and abilities. So who's cooler: vampires or werewolves?

Who are werewolves

No one can boast of having witnessed such a competition. However, if we talk about the abilities inherent in each of them, then the primacy in this duet is given to werewolves.

• His consciousness can be compared both with human capabilities and with the skills of an animal.
• Such a store of knowledge, supported by instincts, gives unlimited strength and powerful potential.

How to recognize an energy vampire

The possibility of meeting a real ghoul in real life is questioned by many people. But the existence of individuals with extraordinary abilities who consume human energy and feed on it is not denied even by psychologists. Hence the name - energy vampires, absorbing the emotions of others.

Distinctive characteristics by which it is possible to determine whether a person belongs to this type bloodsuckers are as follows:

• a constant desire to unbalance the interlocutor in order to get enough of raging emotions;
• the ability to maintain meaningless conversations for a long period of time;
• the need to talk about their failures or about the tragedies of friends and acquaintances, focusing on suffering;
• openness and desire to tell the truth in the face of the interlocutor, without the selection of phrases and expressions.

Learn more about how to protect yourself from an energy vampire:

The existence of vampires today

The desire to discover the truth, whether vampires exist in real life, is inherent in any of us. Bloodthirsty monsters, constantly consuming other people's blood, are found even in literature. At the same time, each country has its own information about pale-faced entities, for which one of the main goals is the need to bite. Such facts give a faint hope that bloodsuckers still exist.

Real facts from life

AT modern world there is not much evidence of real-life encounters with ghouls. Statistical data speak of a hundred such episodes. Interestingly, the descriptions of the incidents have a clear similarity, although the participants in the events are completely unfamiliar with each other. Such things make one involuntarily think that this evil spirit actually exists.

Mythology about vampires

Fans of the mystical and experts in the other world are well aware of the well-known names of the risen dead.

• Among various nationalities, they are often found in legends and myths.
• Names and titles vary depending on the location and religion of the inhabitants.

But common signs of bloodsuckers are still present.

Where do vampires appear?

• Those who have risen from the graves most often appear at the bedside of sleeping people to refresh themselves.
• So that the victim could not resist, she begins to have terrible nightmares.
• In many beliefs, it is stated that the dead most often turn into vampires, leading an impious life during their lifetime.

The most famous vampire names

To understand who vampires are and whether they really exist, one should plunge into the thick of ancient history. Almost all peoples in their annals mentioned the dead, who do not like sunlight and seek to get enough of someone else's blood.

Notable ghoul names

Nationality	Vampire name	Characteristic
Babylonian demonology	Leela	Spirits that are similar in essence to vampires.
Sumerian mythology	akshars	Effeminate demons, the main victims of which were pregnant women and newly born babies.
Ancient Armenian mythology	Dahanavar	The owner of superhuman strength was the defender of his own country and never touched fellow countrymen who were in the vastness of his habitat.
Hindus	Vetala	Vampire-like creatures that inhabit corpses. They were also associated with bats. Their habitats were cemeteries and rooms where the cremation of the dead took place.
Chinese	Lame corpse	The mythology of the peoples of China tells that each person has the life essence of qi. It is she who is the main goal and source of nutrition for this creature.
Filipinos	Mananangal	The evil spirits that eat people do not like the smell of spices and vinegar, they are afraid of being hit by a whip and cannot stand the tail of a stingray. Most often effeminate in appearance, has wings with membranes. Going in search of a victim, it is divided into two parts, one of which remains on the ground. Looks for sleeping (more often in the position of women) and sucks their blood with a tongue-proboscis.
Ancient Roman legends	Empuz, Lamin, Lemur, Strix bird	They live only at night and eat not only human blood, but also flesh. The Romanians called vampires “striga”.
Albanian etymology	shtriga	Most often they appeared in male form and sought to inflict as much harm on people as possible.
African tribes	adze	Inhabited the human body in the form of a clot of fire.
Arab peoples	Algul	It was believed that this ghoul is especially cruel and organizes feasts on cemetery graves.
Vampire female names	Brooks	Her goal is young guys, for whom she leads a fierce hunt and kills them.
The most famous ghoul	Count Dracula	He is known for having a coffin as a bed for sleeping, always wears a black cloak and is endowed with incredibly sharp fangs.

Modern Legends

The ancestor of the myth about blood-consuming creatures was Eastern Europe. In addition, he appeared there under the influence of the folklore of the Slavs. They ranked as vampires creatures that fed on the blood of people, killing them or strangling them.

In order not to be exposed to the negative influence of impure forces, numerous attempts were made to cope with them.

How to kill a vampire

• Beheading,
• Aspen wood stake driven straight into the heart
• Burning a corpse to prevent resurrection.

It is important to know whether it is possible to wear the clothes of a deceased person:

Vampirism could awaken in the most ordinary person after death. Several reasons contributed to this.

The following factors are considered the most common:

• The birth in the water shell,
• Signs of a tail or tooth in newborn babies,
• Taking your own life
• Rejection from church affairs,
• Separate days when the conception of a child leads to the manifestation of bad signs.

How did you fight vampires in the old days?

It was believed that it was possible to prevent the transformation into a vampire. Therefore, if it was assumed that this could happen to a certain person, then the following actions were usually performed:

• The crucifix was placed in the coffin,
• The chin was held by some object. This prevented the dead man from eating the shroud.
• Lots of sawdust in the coffin. Since the awakening of vampiristic inclinations usually occurs in the evening, the process of counting sawdust, which was mandatory before leaving the grave, dragged on until the morning. And the sun's rays are detrimental to any ghouls.

Life stories about vampires

In numerous beliefs and traditions, they tried to convey the idea whether vampires exist in real life. For example, the story of Baron von Axtausen is known. It tells about two wanderers who accidentally wandered into the domain of Dahanavara. Realizing that they were in danger of a night attack, they decided to conduct a bloodsucker: they settled down to sleep in a rather unusual way, placing their legs under each other's heads. What he saw brought Dahanavara into confusion. He was frightened by a two-headed creature without legs and disappeared without a trace.

The most famous werewolves

In order to be able to distinguish an ordinary person from a possible blood-sucking creature, one should understand the known types into which these creatures are conditionally divided. After studying the features of each of them and looking closely at your everyday environment, you will understand whether their existence on earth is real, or is it all speculation and fairy tales.

Types of vampires

Types of vampires	Characteristic
Real	Sent by Lucifer himself to our Earth. Their purpose is to increase the number of suffering people. They have sufficient strength, but they do not tolerate sunlight and garlic smell. Pure blood flows in their veins, which is not corrupted by human genes. Most often noticeable for their fair skin and rather long teeth. Today, there are only a few of these left, but they are constantly in the crowd of people.
Modern	A hybrid formed by mixing with human data. Not as strong as the first species, but also sensitive to daylight and garlic. It is difficult to distinguish from the common man.
Energy	As the name suggests, human energy is used as a power source.
Sanguinarians	They feed exclusively on human blood.

How to protect yourself from vampires

As a matter of fact, you have already understood what vampires are afraid of and whether their existence is real in your environment. You can trust these assumptions, or you can be skeptical about this. However, various facts still confirm the possibility of the presence of such beings.

What does the dream about vampires mean?

There are people who believe that the existence of bloodsuckers in real life is possible, therefore they are afraid to meet them. If this evil creature appeared to you in a dream, then most likely expect unpleasant events. That, in order to get a more correct and expanded interpretation, try to remember every detail of the plot you saw and the emotions you experienced.

If a vampire dreamed in a dream, what does it mean

Dream	Meaning
The bloodsucker is chasing you	Possible illness or loss of strength. Upcoming important changes, entailing trouble and suffering. A certain person, endowed with a certain power, will have a significant impact on your calm and balanced life.
You are at the same table with this evil spirits	Prepare for a long trip that will not bring the desired results.
Coffin with a vampire inside	Serious damage is expected for the current course of your affairs.
The impurity has bitten you	Soon you will receive news of losses and upcoming difficulties. You can also say that the Higher Forces are warning you about an impending intrigue, as a result of which you can become dependent on a person endowed with power.
For an unmarried lady	The development of relations with a new acquaintance is coming, which will not bring anything good.
For married women	The appearance of a secret admirer who will push for impious deeds.
Werewolf attacking you	Be prepared for the difficulties that fate will present to you. The loss of a person dear to the heart is not ruled out.
You watch the ghoul drink blood	The appearance of a dangerous disease in one of the relatives or acquaintances.
You have become a vampire	Your self-confidence pushes you to rash acts. As a result, this can provoke the appearance of troubles and dangerous events. This dream may also indicate that you are used to coping with your own difficulties at the expense of others.
You personally feed on another person's blood	The desire to satisfy your own needs can push you to break the law. In parallel, you will be subject to material problems or you are in danger of a serious illness.
You defeated the evil spirit	Your wisdom and ingenuity will allow you to successfully maneuver in the whirlpool of problems and get dry from difficult circumstances.

What are vampires afraid of?

It cannot be said that absolutely all people believe in the possibility of meeting in their environment a person with vampire abilities. But some still tend to believe that this is actually the case. That is why it is important and necessary to have information on how to deal with possible attacks by night demons, which can most often end in death.

How to recognize and kill a vampire

The differences between bloodsuckers and ordinary people are not always obvious, so a simple weapon will not help you in this case. So that a meeting with a representative of the clan of the dead does not become a tragedy, you should know the ways to help defeat him.

What are vampires afraid of in real life?

1. Shine bright sunlight on the demon's body,
2. Apply holy relics: crucifixes, pectoral crosses, and more. These things have a destructive effect on the flesh of impurity, draining strength from it.
3. Use holy water. Contact with it will provoke the appearance of burns on the body. Their spread and prolonged exposure can result in death.
4. Craft a Sharp Aspenwood Stick. It should be thrust directly into the heart of a demonic creature. Why is aspen so destructive to ghouls? It is believed that Judas hanged himself on it. Therefore, many healers use this tree to make various amulets.
5. Use silver bullets. Sacred properties are attributed to this metal, destructive to various impure creatures.

Do not succumb to the provocative influences of energy vampires. If possible, avoid contact with them.

The revived dead, who consume human blood, hunt exclusively at night. In cinema, they are presented in the form of various images. It can be bats or dead people in coffins.

The ancient healers, who knew black magic, knew the rituals to summon these demons from the realm of the dead.

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How to perform a ritual

• Such actions were carried out only at night, since daylight is detrimental to bloodsuckers.
• For the ceremony at midnight, place two mirrors opposite each other in a dark room.
• Stand close by outlining yourself in a circle on the floor.
• Outside, place two black candles and light them. Sit in the lotus position and, looking into the mirrors, say the following text:

You will have the opportunity to communicate with the dark forces and clarify all the necessary information.

Then, be sure to carry out Evil with the words:

Important moments of the ceremony

• After completing the ritual, cover the used mirrors with a dark piece of cloth and only then leave the circle.
• Be sure to clean the mirror surfaces from adverse effects with the other world.
• To do this, expose them for three days under the sun's rays, having previously drawn crosses, and cover them with dense cloth at night.
• Never use them in everyday life.

How to summon a werewolf spirit

As a second rite, which can be performed independently, you can offer the following.

• Spread the covers in front of the installed mirror, arrange the candles in a circle and put a wreath.
• The latter should be reflected in the mirror surface.
• Look in the mirror for a while and say:

If your actions are correct, then you will see a dark clot of energy. This entity can be asked questions or asked to fulfill its plan.

After the end of the process, turn on the light and extinguish the candles. All things that were used should be burned outside the home.

Believe it or not

So, the mystery surrounding the real existence of vampirism is slightly ajar. The burning interest of most people in this topic is not unfounded. But it's up to you to decide what it is - a figment of the imagination of directors and famous writers, or real werewolves living in our environment. It is most likely impossible to say with certainty whether vampires exist in real life. But the fact that some people have the ability to influence our psychological state is quite difficult to argue with this truth. Therefore, it is important to recognize such people in a timely manner and not give them the opportunity to invade your thoughts.

Learn more mysterious practices.

During the Renaissance, the existence of vampires was thought about with 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.

Vampires have become one of the popular types of evil spirits in the plots of films, songs, poems and paintings. Terrible deeds are attributed to these creatures, and in legends it is very difficult to distinguish truth from fiction.

Anyone who decides to commit suicide or goes against church canons can become a bloodsucker.

There is a belief - if a black cat jumps over the coffin at the funeral, or the eyes of the deceased open slightly, then the deceased will turn into a vampire. Noticing something strange, they put garlic or hawthorn twigs in the grave.

Vampires in real life

In the 21st century, at the beginning of the 2000s, the African Republic of Malawi was swept 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 colluding with vampires.
In 2004, Tom Pere's parents, afraid 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 when bitten is due to poisoning with cadaveric poison. And the visits of the dead to visit relatives are caused by hallucinations of impressionable people. Now in any country there is a belief in vampires, only they are called 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.
• Australian creatures Yara-mo-yaha-hu have long limbs with suction cups, with which they drink blood.
• In Romania, Vorcalak, 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, taking on any form.

Vampire people nowadays

Scientific research is based on two opposing opinions of blood-drinking creatures.

First- Vampires are unreal, and legends are built 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 of the existence of vampires was based on a genetic disease - Porphyria. In the body of the patient, blood cells are not formed, which leads to a lack of iron, due to which the skin becomes pale and prone to sunburn. People with porphyria do not perceive the smell of garlic, the acid in it negatively affects a weak body. More often, the disease is a consequence of related marriages. Incest was mostly recorded on the territory of Transylvania, where the legends about Dracula came from.

There is Renfield syndrome. This is a mental disorder when the patient drinks the blood of animals and even people. This disease affects some of serial killers.

The opinion of vampirology

The science of vampires claims their existence in the real world, but does not define who they are. Some researchers believe that these are the dead, who have undergone gene mutations, or have been bitten by a vampire animal. Features are inherited.

Other vampirologists claim that the followers of the "blood-eating" ritual became vampires. For example, the ancient Aztecs believed that by eating human blood, you become immortal.

It is believed that vampires are people who have made a deal with the devil for eternal life, which must be fed with blood.

The search for evidence of the existence of vampires in 1974 took up the scientist Stefan Kaplan. 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 draw?

• They do exist in our world.
• The fear of the sun is overcome with the help of goggles and cream.
• Nails and fangs are not suspicious.
• The thirst for blood is not strong, just one shot 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 tastes different.

The environment considers them mentally unhealthy, but the scientist claims that thirst is physiological, not a mental problem. They should not be treated as wild, aggressive creatures.

Stories about vampires are very old and have become part of folklore. It is the mystery that surrounds them that fuels their interest more and more. To believe whether there are certain creatures that feed on blood, everyone chooses.

Nowadays vampires in Russia come across infrequently. Elementary logic suggests that all representatives of the "night people" who neglected conspiracy were destroyed long ago (see), therefore, today it is possible to find a vampire in Russia only by indirect signs, just as scientists are looking for black holes, guided by the distorted light of stars, passing through their powerful gravitational field. In this case, the "gravitational field" would be an anomalous spike in murders or disappearances of people in a certain geographic space. Perhaps this approach seems too radical, but I do not believe in all these Hollywood stories about vampires working out of mercy for people at blood transfusion stations or living in crypts in old cemeteries. Vampires are killers, and the desire to kill in them is no weaker than the thirst for blood (see). You can hide, disguise yourself, come up with a great “legend”, but you can’t change your own essence, so I will proceed from the assumption that vampires still kill, and it’s people, not wild animals (although this possibility cannot be ruled out). Let's start from this premise and see where it takes us.

The main task of the Russian state, which it has been brilliantly fulfilling for thousands of years, is to make the life of its citizens as unbearable and ridiculous as possible. And because of their age vampires in Russia should experience problems with documents: passports, birth certificates, education documents and so on. Three hundred years ago, such problems not only did not exist, but today there are many databases, and anyone can be punched through them in a matter of seconds. How should vampires behave in this situation in Russia?

There are three main options:

1. Russian vampires simply kill government officials who can reveal their incognito, for example, policemen. If they really did, then the number of strange deaths among law enforcement officers would be much higher than now (more on that below). The option is gone.

2. The main way Russian citizens communicate with the authorities is a bribe in one form or another, but personally I cannot imagine that a vampire who has lived for 300-400 years meekly pays money to our officials. It turns out that Russian officials can suck money even from a vampire? I doubt. Vampires are pathologically proud people.

3. Vampires in Russia they themselves become officials in order to be able to kill people without problems with the law. The idea, of course, is tempting, but an official is a public profession, and any person here quickly becomes familiar. In addition, vampires have always had a problem with sunlight, and officials do not work at night (and they don’t really work during the day, to be honest).

I think that nowadays vampires in Russia in general, they try to stay away from the authorities and live among those who may not have any documents at all, for example, among the gypsies. People are accustomed to crime news stories about gypsies dealing drugs, but I know of at least one vampire gypsy story. In the late 80s, one gypsy family wandered around the southern regions of Russia. They killed mainly business travelers, homeless people and homeless children. They sucked out the blood, and the corpses were dismembered and thrown away. When they were caught, the parents were declared insane, and the children were sent to an orphanage. What happened to them next, I do not know, although I have some assumptions about this. Whether they were real vampires or really crazy, it's impossible to say.

You can ask the gypsies about this topic, suddenly some information will come up. Do not forget that the gypsies came to us from India, where vampires settled at least since the time of Alexander the Great and for many centuries felt great in the bowels of the bloody cult of the goddess Kali.

Another case occurred in Siberia. He was described in some "yellow" newspaper, but since no conclusions about vampires were made there, we classify him as simply dubious. I'll tell you from memory. Late in the evening, two policemen drove up to the store. One went to buy something, and the other stayed in the car. I don’t know what happened there, but when the first policeman returned, he found the corpse of his partner with a torn throat. Nobody saw it happen. Facts: the militiaman's throat was gnawed, the car door on the driver's side was open. The conclusion of the police authorities: a wild animal, possibly a wolf, got into the car and killed the policeman. And this despite the fact that the policeman had a gun with him. After all, police chiefs are rare ... dreamers.

The third story of one vampire is a very well-known tale that was circulating in near-artistic circles about 30 years ago. "Knowing people" said that somewhere in Moscow lived an underground artist-vampire. At night, he painted portraits of young female students, whom he invited as models. He painted each girl for several days, hypnotizing her and gradually drinking all the blood. And then one day this vampire fell in love with one of his models and decided to turn her into the same vampire as himself. But the girl had a boyfriend whom she sincerely loved. The artist had already lived for more than one hundred years and understood that he could not forcibly keep the girl near him, therefore, before turning her into a vampire, she had to be conquered and first made so that she stopped loving her boyfriend. In the end, the guy found out about everything and killed the vampire, after which he married the saved girl and lived with her happily ever after. The love story here is an obvious fiction, I can’t say for sure about the rest, because I don’t know the name of the artist, or at least the approximate place of his residence.

These and many other stories have nothing to do with each other. They have extremely few details in common. From this I conclude that all stories about a secret vampire organization, including about, are a myth, albeit a beautiful one, but still a myth. There will be evidence - there will be a conversation, but for now we will attribute all this to the evolution of the idea of ​​​​an all-planetary Masonic conspiracy in the mass consciousness of the era of the movie "Twilight". Now, before setting geographic search criteria, there is one more important point to be clear about. I mean the vampire "tribes" about which there is too much idle speculation.

Where to look for vampires in Russia

The usual classifications of vampires are sometimes very interesting and elegant, but they are of little practical use. In this case, I am not interested in exactly how a person became a vampire (see), much more important to me is how exactly a vampire gets his food. As a rule, vampires hunt alone or in small families, that is, they demonstrate typical predatory behavior. In this regard, two questions arise:

1. Do vampires in Russia divide territory among themselves?

2. Do vampires feud with each other in our time?

The fragmentation and small number of vampires in Russia excludes the possibility of a full-fledged war between the tribes of "shepherds" and "nomads", so I am inclined to believe that local skirmishes are possible between them, but there is no need to talk about serious conflicts. An agreement between vampires, if it exists, is unspoken, as it is between all predators belonging to the same species: do not poke your head into my territory and you will remain intact. Thugs and lawless people were liquidated back in the days of the Inquisition (see). By the way, there is an opinion that the Inquisition was created specifically to fight vampires, and the "witches" were burned just to look away. The idea is interesting, but it has no documentary evidence, in any case, they are not known to me.

So, summarizing all of the above, I can answer both questions: "Where to look for vampires in Russia?" and "How to find vampires in Russia?", and not approximate, but very accurate. According to the parameters I set, we are looking for a place where the number of violent deaths significantly exceeds the national average. To the murders of humans committed by vampires, one should also add the murders of rival vampires who wander into this territory in search of easy prey. However, local vampires do not necessarily get rid of strangers with the help of improvised means at their disposal, but also hand them over to law enforcement agencies as maniacs responsible for rampant crime in the region, and policemen are happy to attribute to them all the corpses, the investigation of which has reached a dead end. .

I know of only one place that fully corresponds to this description - this is the infamous triangle Rostov - Taganrog - Mines. Behind last years 37 serial killers were identified there, including the famous Andrey Chikatilo. The center of this triangle is the Grushovka River, where most of the bloody crimes took place. Of course, Chikatilo himself was not a vampire, just as most of the 37 maniacs were not, but how many strange corpses could be attributed to them, especially since such people like to exaggerate the number of their victims. And how many innocent people were shot for their crimes (and on whose tip?). A vampire does not always commit murders himself, sometimes he only needs to train a mentally unbalanced person who will hunt for him and then take full responsibility (formally, he is a killer - he will answer). There is a version that the famous Jack the Ripper did not act alone, and if Scotland Yard has some assumptions about his true identity, then the real name of his hypothetical accomplice is surrounded by an impenetrable veil of secrecy.

I just gave my version. It is still difficult to say how true it is. More information and, most importantly, facts are required. In any case, I have not yet heard a single intelligible explanation of the events that have been taking place in the vicinity of the Grushovka River for several decades, and I have not the slightest desire to disturb the inhabitants of this mysterious place myself once again. The rest is up to you.