Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming out of the Coffin ... person’s blood because “it is generally expected within the community that vampires should act ethically and responsibly in feeding ...

Though the corpses were typically re-buried, modern scholars continue to unearth the stories of real-life ... to insulate the community against further harm. Often the vampire-hunters were ...

In the 1990s, role-playing tabletop games like Vampire: The Masquerade even inspired folks to join a community of people who identified as “real vampires,” according to J. Gordon Melton ...

Lore about vampires and other blood-drinking beings has existed for centuries. For hundreds of years, people have been coming up with scientific explanations. Some link diseases to vampire-like ...

Moreover, rather than populating the area of the mythical, and today that of the pop, the Slavic vampire was very much part of the deepest folk beliefs – lying at the heart of the Slavic world-view.