Ifound this to be an interesting theory16:57 Jan 20 2008
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An excerpt from
The book i am reading
Sweetblood by, Pete Hautman
CHAPTER 6
"The Sad Truth About Bloodsucking Demons"
by, Lucy Szabo
Creative Writing, 4th Period
There are many tales about vampires, but almost none of them are true. So why are there so many books on vampires? Why do so many different cultures have their own vampire stories?
The truth is, Vampire legends are based upon actual fact. Vampires were (and are) real, as I shall prove in the following paper.
Most of the modern ideas about vampires came from a book by bram stoker titled Dracula. Count Dracula (according to the book) was a vampire who lived in a castle in Transylvania and drank blood to stay alive. He could turn into a bat, andhe was hundreds of years old. He was superfast and superstrong and 100% evil. Bram Stoker got many of his ideas from Romanian folk legends, and from reading about a real historical person named Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler.
[I skipped the part where she describes what Impalement is, as I'm sure we all know our vocabulary]
But the real Vlad Dracula was not a real vampire (as far as we know). He was just a sadistic sicko, much like Elizabeth Bathory, who liked to bathe in blood colected bby murdering local maidens. She also liked to bite them and torture them.
Basically, Bram Stoker was just a writer who cobbled together a few folk-tales and some twisted history into a kind of ghost story. But ever since, the vampire legend has grown to become a huge force in modren literature. The true story, however, was lost in the mists of time--until now.
Most myths and legends are based on real events. For instance, the story of Noah's Ark might have been inspired by a real flood, and the Abominable snowman is probly a rare species of a bear.
This is also true of vampires.
First, you have to relize that when the vampire stories got started there was very little knowledge about disease and medicine. People treated cancer with leeches and rubbed dirt into cuts to make them heal. Ignorance was even greater then than it is today.
Even thousands of years ago there was some knowledge of diabetes. Not that they could do anything about it, but the ancient Greeks knew that diabetics had too much sugar in them and that no matter how much they ate, they would soon waste away to nothing. But that was all they knew.
As an insulin-dependent diabetic myself, I have read a great deal about the disease. Today, we diabetics take insulin and test our blood glucose (sugar), and most of us do okay. We worry about blindness and kidney disease and heart disease and neuropathy (terminal numbness), but that's only after many years of having the disease. But before insulin was discovered,
[My fingers are starting to hurt, we'll make the rest of this to the point]
ok she talks about how back then a teenage girl who was an untreated diabetic could have got hungry and thirsty and kept eating her parents long earned food and there comes a point when you stop buying food knowing it will just be gone in that same day... Yada yada yada.... so it was uncommon for a human to eat so much and she started to smell because of her sweet blood and burning of fats, that the parents figure it was some type of possesion and try to keep the girl in the barn away from the neighbors, and in doing so the girl because thiner and pale and she has receding gums that make her teeth look longer...
Ok I'm done!!!!
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