Your Daily Facts about Vampires
Vampire legends has been based on Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476).
A female Vampire is a Vampiress.
The most famous vampire of all time, Count Dracula.
Garlic, a traditional vampire repellent. Other methods include holy water, crucifixes, hawthorn branches, rowan trees, and fire.
Prince Charles is a direct descendant of the Vlad the Impaler.
A group a vampires has variously been called a coven, pack, clutch, brood, or a clan.
Vampires may suffer from haematodipsia, which is a sexual thirst for blood. Necrophilia is sexual attraction to corpses, or sexual intercourse with a dead body.
Over 1,000 vampire novels were published.
Chinese vampires were called a ch’iang shih, identified by the greenish-white hair covering their bodies.
Secrets of House No. 5 in 1912, is supposedly the first vampire movie. F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu came about, in 1922.
Accused of biting the flesh of girls Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) tortured them and bathed in their blood.
Dracula 1931 Bela Lugosi Movie Stamp was published in 1997 by the U.S. Postal Service.
Over 100 movies has featured Dracula.
Egyptian goddess Sekhmet was known to drink blood.
Vampires supposedly can turn into a bat, owl, rat, fox, moth, or wolf.
Female vampires (Vampiress) were blamed for spreading the bubonic plague throughout Europe.
“Carmilla,” a book by Joseph Sheridan Le Fany in 1872, is considered the prototype for the female lesbian vampires.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897.
In most legends Vampires cannot cross a threshold Without an invitation.
In some cultures, drinking the blood of a victim allowed the drinker to absorb their victim’s strength.
A vampire body could be buried face down to prevent it from escaping the grave.