10 Facts About Vampires

Vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood.

Vampires are said to be unable to walk on consecrated ground, such as that of churches or temples, or cross running water.

Vampires feasted on blood by transforming into a young woman and seduced men as they slept before drinking their blood.

Vampires linked this event to the lack of a shmirah after death as the corpse could be a vessel for evil spirits.

Vampires properly originating in folklore were widely reported from Eastern Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries.

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Vampires concluded that vampires did not exist and the Empress passed laws prohibiting the opening of graves and desecration of bodies, sounding the end of the vampire epidemics.

Vampires's father, assisted by the family physician, removed her from her tomb two months after her death, cut out her heart and burned it to ashes.

Vampires have appeared in Japanese cinema since the late 1950s; the folklore behind it is western in origin.

Vampires is able to detach her fanged head which flies around in the night looking for blood, typically from pregnant women.

Vampires appeared as an attractive woman with long black hair that covered a hole in the back of her neck, with which she sucked the blood of children.