Throughout history and even present times, the Vampire phenomenon has been researched by different people. The three most important and famous of them have been the French Benedictine Dom Antoine Augustin Calmet, the English Catholic and Occultist Montague Summers and the American paranormal investi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vampires’
Vampires in Past and Present – Part II: Research and Theories
August 2nd, 2011 - 00:03 § in Religion
Vampires in Past and Present – Part I: Etymology, Myth, Legend and History
August 2nd, 2011 - 00:01 § in Religion
Vampires have been called a lot of names around the world. The word 鈥渧ampir鈥 was of Slavic origin and had been used in Russia, Serbia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. It derived eventually from Hungarian language and means 鈥渢o drink鈥. At the beginning of the 18th century the English word[...]
Vampires in Past and Present – Part III: Reality
August 1st, 2011 - 23:58 § in Religion
There are different types of vampires and is has to make the difference between real vampires, role playing vampires, fictional vampires, animals (bats), medical conditions or blood fetishists. The fictional vampire exists thanks to Hollywood and before that thanks to the author Bram Stoker i[...]
