Vampires: The Undead
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Bram Stoker wrote a fantastic novel titled
“Count Dracula; Prince of Darkness’. The novel appeared in late 19th
century and was an instant hit. Hollywood also has popularized this novel with
many films about the character created by Bram Stoker.
Bram stoker only presented a character that exists in
folklore in Central Europe. The legend is that a Vampire is a human being who
by the art of black magic is able to live on forever. But to live on the
Vampire needs the blood of the opposite sex. Thus a male vampire will thirst
for the blood of young women. Normally the male vampire has a magnetic
personality and he makes younger women love him and during the sex act he makes
a puncture in the neck of the girl with his teeth and drinks her blood.
The legend of the
Vampire dates from the Roman era. There is a tale of a man named Apollonius who
attends a wedding of a man named Menippus. However Appollonius could recognize
that the girl Menippus was going to marry is a vampire. When confronted the
girl confessed that she wanted to drink the blood of her husband after
marriage.
Such tales are thrilling to read, but Vampires as outlined
in myths are perhaps only in imagination than reality.
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