#vampire legend

[briefbestiary]

A child of a vampire and a human. Without the weaknesses of vampires, but still decidedly unnatural. Some regions say they are short-lived and soft-bodied with fragile bones.

[hompunkulus]

Dearg Due, Red Bloodsucker.

Classic story of female demonization... quite literally. She was from a wealthy family and fell in love with a peasant, her father being the wealthy cis man he was, decided for her to marry another wealthy cis man. An older, cruel man that would abuse her in horrific ways; one story tells of him even bleeding her. She was a beautiful young lady, a kind young lady, but in the days past, and even still practiced in some countries today, she was forced to marry for wealth and not love. A coerced betrayel of the heart.

Not only was she tortured, she was neglected by her father as her husband kept her locked away from society. This once vibrant, kind, and beautiful young lady was forsaken by the man that was supposed to protect her and terribly abused by the man that was supposed to love and cherish her. The memory of her peasant boy and the hopes he would save her kept her alive, but as time passed she gave up on this fantasy. She began to starve herself, hiding her food. She slowly faded away from self starvation.

As custom in Ireland to leave heavy stones upon a recently deceased persons grave so as not to be disturbed was forgotten. The sadness of her death to her village was too overwhelming. Forgetting this simple tradition would have dire consequences.

With her sorrow and anger she swore she would rise after death and enact vengeance on her father and husband. Once a year her spirit travels the roads as a beautiful lady in white, but her hunger for vengeance consumes her as traveling men are enticed by her beauty only to meet a bloody end.

And so the time of year has come for dearg due, the red bloodsucker, to haunt Irish roads once more.

[kollectorsrus]

[physiologicdeadspace]

Jure Grando Alilović, who died in 1656, is potentially the first person in history to have been described as a ‘vampire’. According to legend he would rise from his grave at night and terrorise the small village in Croatia where he had lived.

The legend describes a 16 year period following his death where villagers would receive knocks on their door in the dead of night, and within a few days someone within that household would die. Alilović’s widow also reported seeing her dead husband at her bedroom window, she claimed that he sexually assaulted her, and had an expression on his face like he was smiling and gasping for breath.

The village decided to dig up Alilović’s corpse after living with this terror for 16 years. When the exhumed his body they found that he was perfectly preserved and had a smile on his face. They initially attempted to stab him through the heart, but allegedly the stick could not penetrate his skin. One of the villagers then decided to behead him, and began to saw off his head. The legend states that as soon as the saw tore his skin Alilović screamed and blood started pouring from the wound. Once he was decapitated the nightly terror stopped.

[jackattila-37]

But the fame of Highgate Cemetery is not only due to literature. In the 1960s, a series of strange sightings, decapitated animals and satanic rituals occurred. Rumor has spread of a vampire living in the cemetery. The founder of the British Psychic and Occult Society, David Ferrant, and the British bishop Sèan Manchester were interested in the case. Later, a movement of fanatical vampire hunters appeared: they exhumed the corpses, pierced their hearts and decapitated them, until Ferrant was sentenced to five years in prison and Highgate Cemetery was closed to the public. Since 1975, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery association has managed the cemetery and guided tours. Highgate is still a favorite destination for occult enthusiasts and the curious in search of illustrious tombs, such as those of Karl Marx, George Eliot and Malcolm McLaren (manager of the Sex Pistols).

[andersonvision]

VAMPIRE LEGEND

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The Sussex Vampire, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Literary Vampire

This is a story that gives us the opportunity to see one of history’s oldest, surviving legends, as it developed through the years. The idea of the vampire was certainly not new to Victorian, England — any more than Edward and his “family” coined the idea of vamiprism today. In fact this is a history that dates back to Vlad the Impaler. However, it wasn’t until the rise of the Bram Stoker’s version of Dracula that the legend of the vampire truly took flight. And while this particular book was written twenty-seven years following the advent of Dracula, it is interesting to note that the setting for this story is around 1896, one year before the actual publication of Stoker’s work.

But what sets this apart from the typical vampire stories is that the great Holmes is no proponent of the existence of the vampire. This is probably a reflection of Doyle’s belief that in science there is no room for fictionalized creatures, even if they have been glamorized through the acceptance of the public. But it is this approach in the attempt to disprove the existence of such creatures that sets this apart from other works in the vampire genre.

The existence of a vampire is tantamount to the existence of evil incarnate. Simply put, when the vampire legend was born, it embodied the belief that evil was a physical entity that had the capacity to take form, and walk abroad among men. However, for the lovers of science the concept of evil is as intangible as the mystic traditions of religion, and spiritualism. And in fact, the concept of evil had its origins in the same religious beliefs that have been handed down through the generations. By tackling the superstitions surrounding evil, and allowing the voice of Holmes to make an investigation into the existence of evil, Doyle is in fact declaring that true evil is to be found in men, and not in the realms of mystic belief.

True evil are the acts that one commits against another, and it takes men to be able to accomplish this feat. So in fact, this piece of work can be considered Doyle’s pronouncement against the idea that evil exists in a solitary form — but rather it is embodied in men. And all men are capable of some of the most heinous acts, which we frequently brand with the label of evil.

Overall, this is a good story. And it offers an interesting insight into the fact that once the immortal nature of the vampire legend was established through the writings of Stoker, it grew into an independent area of fiction, which eventually developed into a genre all its own. Doyle is just one stopping point along the journey from Count Dracula to the Edwards and Bellas of today. And while the shape, form, and manifestation of the vampire persona has change dramatically over the years — the basic concepts behind the vampire itself are still as true to their origins as the day they were first penned by Stoker.