In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires. [26]

2016年11月1日 · In the Czech town of Čelákovice, there is an 11th century graveyard which contains 14 skeletons thought to have been considered vampires. They either had their heads cut off, their hands and legs tied, metal spikes driven through their …

2017年9月13日 · Vampires are evil mythological beings who roam the world at night searching for people whose blood they feed upon. They may be the best-known classic monsters of all. Most people associate vampires...

Legends of vampires have existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demonic entities and blood-drinking spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires.

2013年5月29日 · The remains of a woman of the Middle Ages, found with a stone in his mouth, according to an established ritual to prevent her from eating corpses of neighbors and spread the plague, were recently discovered by the group of Matthew Borrini University of Florence, in the New Island Lazzaretto, an area of great historical interest in the Lagoon of ...

2022年9月30日 · In the late Middle Ages, the fear of women’s vampiric nature was embodied by the figure of the succubus and implied throughout the wildly popular treatise De secretis mulierum, or On the Secrets of Women.

Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori 's The Vampyre (1819), inspired by a story told to him by Lord Byron.

2025年1月31日 · The discovery of an unusual "vampire" burial in Croatia shows the endurance of such beliefs in eastern medieval Europe, according to researchers.

Unearthing Medieval Vampire Stories In England: Fragments From De Nugis Curialium and Historia Rerum Anglicarum

2022年1月14日 · It might be surprising to learn that Medieval Europe—disparaged as the Dark Ages—did not know the concept of the blood-drinking creatures of the night. The legendary vampire emerged more recently, in fact. The vampire postdates witch-hunts, werewolf trials, and even the demon-haunted Puritans.