Vampire myth

According to a vampire legends for thousands of years in many civilizations and cultures around the world such as the Mesopotamian civilization and the Jews and the Greeks and the Romanian civilization. Included stories about demonic creatures and the lives of absorbing the blood, which is the origin stories of vampires at the moment. And keeps track of these objects are legendary stories about the world we find that most of them focused on the origin of these creatures back to the South-Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, as mentioned the first time in many folk stories of the peoples of that region.

In many of the stories mentioned that the vampire is a ghost alive or dead inhabited the lives of the creatures of evil or to persons died suicide bombers and even the lives of Mhaomat which can be seen and characterized by that it does not die and thought it had of death, but Imknaan turn the body into a vampire by moving spirit vampire, or to become a normal person to a vampire by another vampire bite. Sometimes those stories have been amplified and Thoelha, where some cases have caused panic and hysteria in some areas has reached the stage where the men's religion cleansing campaigns and directed by the evil spirits of people who thought they Meskunon that spirit of evil vampire

With place and story, the remaining number of common denominators of those myths about the world, the most important blood as a symbol of the soul and life force is also an essential element of some religions such as Christianity. According to some authors, the bite of a vampire from the perspective of psychoanalysis is more of a threat of physical violence or sexual intercourse when the victim

As a result of discoveries of geographical and commercial traffic in the Middle Ages, as well as the migration of peoples such as the Roma, Jews and Indians, have been transferred some of the myths and stories from one place to another, making it difficult to distinguish between the beliefs of origin and the product of cultural exchange, which is mixed with the stories and myths about evil spirits, jinn and vampires . Which form the concept of today from those superstitious objects and opening new areas of study and specialization in this area

Back stories about the creatures do not die and feed blood and human flesh for several centuries and prevalent in almost all human cultures that region was famous for myths organisms that feed on blood and human flesh. Persian civilization was first described these objects through the superstitious fees on the remains of pottery discovered in many archaeological sites. At the present time know these creatures as a vampire (in English: Vampire), but in ancient times this was not the term known and used, but it was this description applies to the life or the jinn and that feed blood and flesh, even the devil was considered a form of these organisms almost every culture has had a "vampire blood" private, where in the Arab region known in ancient Egypt, Al-Ghoul was a form of Sekhmet gods. Some of these myths are based in folklore stories Sucker peoples of South East Europe, but historians believe that it is not necessarily characterized by all the recipes vampire

 In the civilization of Babylon, known for being the demon Lilith consumers of blood and that derived from its counterparts in Jewish culture: Lilith (Hebrew: לילית) where the devil is fed with the blood of infants. In the writings of several ancient Hebrew was considered the first wife of Adam before Eve and Adam were left to be Queen of the demons, and in other texts mention that God has punished for refusing to expel marriage of Adam from Paradise. To protect children from the attacks of the devil by parents to suspend a talisman to cradle the child away from them

 Often mentions the three together, "Lilit" and "Omachto" and "Gallo" as evil spirits threaten every house and every person and as a high risk, and Djalon of blood falls like rain in many descriptions. Gallo also appear in the Byzantine culture is also under the name of "Gilo" "Gello, Gylo, Gyllo" as a woman demon kidnaps and kills children

 After the decline of the impact of stories of Mesopotamia for vampires, some of the stories appeared in a series of similar tales famous Thousand and One Nights tells the story of vampires as well, which speaks of evil spirits living or dead, which is possible to turn to vampires. One of these stories tells about the marriage of Prince with the vampire called "Ndelh" which discovers her identity when trying to kill her. In the story of a princess from another kidnapped by a vampire and then trying to escape it cheated him and eventually return to her family

Remember Almtheologia Greek ancestors of a number of existing vampires, but without describing their inability to death. Of them, "Ampiosa", "Lamia" and the animal Alstrgus (Latin: striges) any animal like Balboma Alligriqih in mythology and Romanian. With time, the names Ampiosa Lamia became associated with the names of the Mhaomat and demons respectively. Ampiosa is the daughter of "Hikata", the goddess of Greek - Roman practiced magic and curses to receive. Ampiosa described as a demon with bronze legs fed with blood and become a beautiful woman to seduce men and a relationship with them and then drink their blood, Lamia was the daughter of the King, "Pylos" of Egypt and mistress of the god Zeus confidentiality. The mythology says that Hera discovered the relationship and retaliated by killing all the descendants of Lamia, Lamia swore vengeance and on that infiltrated the Omhad birth at night and sucking their blood.

Alstrgus well, the killing of children, but also kills young men, has been described as a carnivorous species of birds and night owl probably was quoted later in the Romanian culture under the name "Istriks" (Balatynah: strix), which feeds on the blood of children. Mentioned in the stories of folklore Romania lives and bodies of existing graves is called "Strigoa" (in Romanian: Strigoï) that no relationship is directly between the term is Greek and Roman, are also found in Albanian "Shtriga" The Slave "Strzyga" also mentioned some of the objects with the characteristics of vampires in an epic Homer's "Odyssey", Homer says in the story that he can not hear the lives of others are to die only after you drink the blood first. In the epic Ulysses also said that before the start of his journey inside the body of Hades have sacrificed life to carry to drink his blood, in order to be able to communicate with him

In India, according to creatures like Balgol inhabit the bodies and called "Vitala" (Sanskrit: vetāla or वेताल) and mentioned in many folk tales, and especially in the story collection "Kathasaretsagara" (Kathāsaritsāgara) include the story of the King "Veramadetya" (Vikramāditya) and his adventure allelic to capture on one of those creatures in the story that likened Bkhvash which do not die and sleep hanging from her husband and lives graves, which looks like a long form of the famous vampire in the present day. Another example is the "Bichecha" (Pishacha) are a meat-eating demons or the lives of persons with mental illness and are characterized by certain types of vampire

Also mentions the goddess Kali in Indian culture where you have four arms and the collar of skulls and worn bodies. Has built a number of temples across the country near the cemetery so as to its relation with blood and dead bodies have been mentioned myths that Cali and other god is "Durga" had fought the devil "Ractavijia" (the meaning of his name in Sanskrit seed of blood) distinguished by its ability to be renewed every drop of blood, the question of which but in the end Kali drank all his blood to win the battle and the indomitable Satan

One example is the most popular in the civilization of the peoples of the Slavs on the vampire is of being witches or people who are immoral, qualities apply to those who have died unnatural ways, such as suicide, or have been denied Knnisya, it has exercised the activities of non-religious, or in the case of leaving the body or the grave risk of animals or in the case of an animal jumped over the body or the birds flying above the grave, and also applies to babies with birth defects. In areas of southern Russia, people known that they speak to themselves are considered a risk to turn to vampires vampires Slavs are characterized by their ability to appear in the form of butterflies known from before they are lost souls. Some traditions say that vampires are two objects which, when soul and abandon her dream body and spirit become harmful to nature and absorbing the blood of

Peoples of the Slavs in the northern regions of the European continent (like Russia and Ukraine) have had another vision of vampires from their neighbors from other regions, Vmassas blood does not die too, but he does not drink blood, and the name Slav to a vampire they have not resemble the name in other parts of the indigenous peoples. In Ukraine is characterized by never immortal life. In Ukrainian folklore that they are characterized by a red object and tails Gosairhokhlal the spread of cholera during the nineteenth century, has spread the belief that patients will turn into vampires

In order to keep vampires and disease from the village, the brothers Taam plow ring around the village Bmihrathen, and are breaking the egg and the introduction of a nail in the floor of a house who died recently, and the two or three wives old man visited the cemetery evening after the funeral and they planted five poles of the plant hawthorn or five pegs wood in the tomb, and one toward the chest of the deceased and four of his limbs. Other beliefs it says running back carrying a candle and a turtle be enough to prevent the evil vampire, you can also surround the grave with a rope Sophie red to prevent the dead from the transformation of the vampire and wait until the burning of the rope completely if I heard a noise at night and suspected that the vampire is trying to infiltrate the house, should the people of house call: Come tomorrow and will give you some salt or go, my friend promised you some fish to keep the vampire

 In Hungary, known as the vampire legends since the Middle Ages, has reported a blood-thirsty creatures in the notes issued by the Inquisition. Where in the twelfth century, questioned the Inquisition Hungarian one Mhaove "shaman" pagans during the trial in the city of Surroistak north of the country, where he claimed a demon called "Aizhakos" (in Hungarian: izcacus) and literally means "Sharp of blood", has been described as a creature of strong capable to destroy the enemies of the sorcerer. Hungarian linguists have estimated that the use of that word back to the pre-entry to the Hungarians in the region 895, and back out the word to the Turkish language, which has been derived during the eighteenth century