Are people who say they are vampires really vapires?
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there are people with genetic disorders as stated, one is lupus but that is more toward the werewolf myth, the other is porphyria which is a hereditary stress brought on disease in which you are alergic to sunlight, the smell of garlic, and you crave something in other peoples blood because your blood doesnt create a required item.  another thing that led to this myth is the fact that people used to be burried alive when they were in comas, and when dug up they had moved in their graves, because they were suffocating, when staked squeals and what appeared to be fresh blood were seen and heard because of the air being released from the lungs and the people werent enbalmed back then\ni hope this helps
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my dad served on a jury for a mentally ill patient who was petitioning his release from the institution.  \n\nhe said he could see vampires.\n\nwhen asked if there were any vampires in the courtroom, he said there were 5\n\nso i guess the answer is crazy people?
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Of course these things are real. Let me give you an analogy.\n\nYou know once the government gave me and a group of people an I.Q. Test and I was having a blast with the questions, I'm nerdy like that, LOL. Any way, this guy looks at me and says "Don't bother answering those because there aren't any answers to them; they just ask them to drive you up the wall." I looked at the guys paper and saw it was blank so I asked him "Have you tried to answer any of the questions." and he replied "Yeah but they don't make any sense." To which I replied "They make perfect sense to me." He replied "Yeah, but you're one of those real smart guys, you can make up answers to those questions, cause you guys are way out in outer space."\n\nAnd so we have the truth of what "superstition" really is; anybody can score high on an I.Q. test, all it takes is effort: Just because some one has had an experience doesnt mean they are delusional, what it means is that they've taken the time to look deeply into things, and have walked where you have yet to walk.\n\nI've done exorcisms, and I've got physical scars from those M*&&^% F)*%$. I've had people into black magick send Mummies (not the maternal type) and demons after me that attack their prey in the Beta state of consciousness. You can't feel pain in dreams, but you can in the realm that is parallel to them. \n\nYes, you can not only protect yourself from them, but you can hurt them, and even kill them; with the right knowledge and hands on experience. Protection is easy, rather it's Jesus or what ever, they feed on your own evil and true good will protect you: Make no mistake, God is very real: to say these things don't exist is like that guy explaining intelligence away, it's as spiritually as he was intellectually lazy.\n\nIf you've read enough on this then you are probably puzzled as to why I have my picture available and why I am so open. Simple enough; I like Miyamoto Musashi.\n\nIt's as real as the floor beneath your feet; and if you have to ask some one else about it, I'd suggest not getting involved with it until you don't have to ask such preschool level questions about it. Not criticizing you, just letting you see where your level of knowledge on this subject is at; there are plenty of subjects I'm just as ignorant of.
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I do know a bit about it.  My friends and I have studied the paranormal for a while.  Electronic Voice Phenomenon, more commonly called EVP, is a paranormal phenomenon in which you hear a voice of someone who wasn't there during the time a recording was made.  Many people say it's proof of an afterlife or spirits.  There are a wide variety of opinions on the issue and many frauds.  Occassionally it can the wind or something else in the back ground making something a noise, and people want it to be something other than what it actually was.  Now I am sure that there are a few in which something is talking that wasn't there, but many times people make fakes.  Try doing a search on ghosts or the paranormal pretty much any website you pull up will have stuff on EVPs.
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Well I say that if that is what you want to do, then go for it. I believe in the paranormal, and I think it would be great if somebody could prove vampires and such really do exist, who knows, maybe you'll be that person.\nAs for me, well I want to be a paleontologist.
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I'm all about the lycanthropes, baby, but I think people are more fascinated with vampires because werewolves are only werewolves once a month. They can be in the light. Vampires are vampires forevverrr, with prolonged lifespans and a dislike of the sun. Werewolves are still socially (and religiously) accepted people... as long as the full moon's not out.
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I don't believe in them but, hey, the universe is a big place and it would be presumptuous of me to assume that I know everything or have seen everything because I sure haven't come close to even seeing/knowing a small fraction of the many truths out there. \n\nNow, I know there are misguided humans that think they are vampires and drink blood but that's just a fetish. The ones that I know of are just humans, nothing more, no non-human powers.
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are there people who think like this? yes\n\ndo they know what they are doing?   no\n\nif they are fooling with any kind of "dead" thing, it is probably a demonic spirit taking them for a ride.
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Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.\n\nVampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person/animal. Vampires are said to mainly bite the victim's neck, extracting the blood from the carotid artery. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another's blood (and/or flesh) has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and it can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs.\n\nIn zoology and botany, the term vampirism is used to refer to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra.
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see ghosts do exist but vampire zombies nooooo.....\nu dont believe in ghosts go here\nhttp://www.sfogs.com\ngo there then on top right click "true stories or images"\nand then u will believe in them\n\n\ni hope i did i gr8 job\n\n\nKP is wrong
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Vampires are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood. They are also the frequent subject of cinema and fiction, albeit fictional vampires have acquired a set of traits distinct from those of folkloric vampires. In folklore, the term usually refers to the blood-sucking undead of Eastern European legends, but it is often extended to cover similar legendary creatures in other regions and cultures. Vampire characteristics vary widely between different traditions. Some cultures have stories of non-human vampires, such as animals like bats, dogs, and spiders.\n\nVampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person/animal. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another's blood (and/or flesh) has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and it can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs.\n\nIn zoology and botany, the term vampirism is used to refer to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to legendary animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra.\n\nVampire analogies in ancient cultures\n\nTales of the dead craving blood are found in nearly every culture around the world, including some of the most ancient ones. Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are mentioned in early Babylonian demonology, and the bloodsucking Akhkharu even earlier in the Sumerian mythology. These female demons were said to roam during the hours of darkness, hunting and killing newborn babies and pregnant women. One of these demons, named Lilitu, was later adapted into Jewish demonology as Lilith.\n \nThe vetala, like the bat, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemeteries\n\nIn India, tales of the Vetalas, ghoul-like beings that inhabit corpses, are found in old Sanskrit folklore. A prominent story tells of King Vikramāditya and his nightly quests to capture an elusive Vetala. The stories of the Vetala have been compiled in the book Baital Pachisi. The vetala is an undead, who like the bat associated with modern day vampire, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemeteries.\n\nThe hopping corpse is an equivalent of the vampire in Chinese tradition; however, it consumes the victim's life essence rather than blood.\n\nThe Ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet in one myth became full of bloodlust after slaughtering humans and was only sated after drinking alcohol colored as blood.\n\nIn Homer's Odyssey, the shades that Odysseus meets on his journey to the underworld are lured to the blood of freshly sacrificed rams, a fact that Odysseus uses to his advantage to summon the shade of Tiresias.\n\nThe strix, a nocturnal bird that fed on human flesh and blood is mentioned in Roman tales. The Romanian word for vampires, strigoi, is derived from the word, and so is the name of the Albanian Shtriga, but the myths about those creatures show mainly Slavic influence.\n\nAs an example of the existence and prominence of similar legends at later times, it can be noted that 12th century English historians and chroniclers Walter Map and William of Newburgh recorded accounts of revenants that arguably bear some resemblance to East European vampires.\n\nThe vampire myth as we know it is most strongly rooted in East European and above all Slavic folklore , where vampires were revenants accused of killing people, often by drinking blood, but also by throttling, or sitting on them and preventing breathing. A vampire could be destroyed by cutting off its head, by driving a wooden stake into its h
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Vampires excite some people for several reasons which include sexual aspects and the taboo of drinking blood, but mostly because of the inborn fear of death and the unknown. \nOther reasons include the desire for power, especially the kind of  POWER and toothy, raw animalia that a vampire portrays over the innocent, helpless, soon-to-be-dead victim, ---which, incidently,  many people also identify with for many reasons.
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Someone has, apparently.  \n1)  I forget the specifics, but the English hanged some guy for being a vampire in the 30's or 40's\n2)   Miguel De Romasante (or something like that), the one man accused of lycanthropy in modern times, lived in the late 1800's in Spain.\n3)  Absolute tons of people have claimed to see God, Demons and Ghosts.
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vampires are just mythical creatures that walk the land in fiction movies and books nothing else though u can't be sure coz there is a castle of Dracula in Romania
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Interview with a vampire.
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If you mean the movie version, no. There are psychiatric disorders where people believe they are vampires. Historically it is a form of cannibalism from ancient beliefs that one could gain the power of an enemy by drinking his blood or consuming other body parts
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Vampires are not always immortal, and they don't do this for money like a hooker.  Get out of the house more - check into the goth scene if you wanna meet REAL vampires (people with a blood fetish)