How to identify a vampire

The vampires as all of us know they have similar characteristics to the human body, that sometimes we can’t distinguish if they are or not a vampire. Maybe they are similar to human, but they can’t be completely the same as human beings. There are some characteristics that a vampire can’t hire and it can reveal their true identity. (Luger, Keny).

            Most of the vampires don’t support the sunlight, that’s why many of them just sleep in a coffin or as a bat in a dark place that anybody can see them. Even though they don’t support the sunlight, some of them can come out at day, but using sunglasses and staying in places with shadow. They use the sunglasses, because their pupils can’t handle the amount of sunlight during the day. The vampires have many abilities like us, such as smelling and listening; the difference between human and vampires is that human aren’t immortals as vampire are, also they have better ears than us so they can listen the things better .  Also they can smell as human do, but what it makes them better smelling things is that they are able to smell blood, which is something they really like to smell and get excited. We can see that those characteristics would be also difficult for us to identify if they are really vampires’, but thanks to their extravagant physical characteristics it’s easier to identify them.  One of the physical characteristics is that they have their nails so long that it almost look like a claw, have a pale skin as if they were ill for a long time and also the most common thing of a vampire is to have long canines or teeth to devour an animal or make a hole in human skin to drink blood.  It could be that we may have a friend or someone we know that is a vampire and is perfectly hiding his identity so we can’t notice it. If that happens it could be dangerous, so it will be convenient to use a mirror and see if his reflections are shown in the mirror. If not, do everything you can to get away from him, because a vampire doesn’t have a reflection in the mirror because they are already dead. (Luger, Keny). 

Now that we know many things about how to identify a vampire, be careful with whom you are being friend or with whom you are meeting. Maybe vampires at first looks as a good vampire and we may think that he won’t hurt you, because you think he is your friend; if it is so then you should be prepared to die. Vampires have many ways to get involved in our life, so try to be careful and tell the other ones to be careful with someone if you see it fishy. We can’t never know when a vampire is already in our surroundings waiting for the time to drink our blood, so be always cautious of everything. (Luger, Keny).

Bibliography

Luger, Keny. Keny Luger. 2011. 25 August 2011 <http://kenyluger.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-kill-a-vampire>.

Those the vampires really exist?

There is folklore since the ancient times in Rome, Greece, China and Egypt about a repugnant creature with some weird characteristics that were similar to a vampire that we know nowadays. The characteristics that represented a vampire were foul smelling, pale and cold skin, reanimated corpses or the motivation for drinking blood and they couldn’t be exposed to the sun. (Wise Geek and Marlett, Greg).

It is said that there is some evidence to prove that the folklore was really true. Thanks to a strange event that happen in ancient times, which was the sudden death of people and livestock that was an unclear circumstance. The only reason that they thought those people died was vampirism, with the sudden appearance of an unknown disease similar to tuberculosis. The unknown disease’s symptoms were making people have similar physical characteristics of a vampire, such as pale and cold skin or the slow physical wasting. But nowadays, it is said that vampires don’t exist and the unknown disease was the porphyria. Porphyria has some symptoms that makes people look as a dead man who had been revive and now is looking for blood. Those people who have this disease their body would start to demonstrate the symptoms, which are the pale and cold skin, the drying libs which in those times it was recommended to put blood and also with that disease they couldn’t be expose to the sun, because their skin would burn with a reaction of the disease symptoms. (Wise Geek and Marlett, Greg). 

Another way to prove that the folklore was true was through some people known as vampire hunter. The vampire hunters had said that the vampires really exist and there was a cure for vampirism. The cure for vampirism were only two ways which was to look for the corpse, then dig it up and after that open the tomb and cut the head of the dead person or vampire inside it. The other way would be by stabbing a wooden stake through its heart; also there was a way to prevent a dead person to become a vampire, that was by tying a big cross of wooden in the tomb then bury it. (Wise Geek and Marlett, Greg).

It’s still very confusing and unknown about the subject of the true story of vampires, even though there were many historical documents cases in the U.S and Europe about vampire hunters trying to cure the vampirism. But it is still unknown if those cases were real and if it really exist those repugnant creatures known as vampires. (Wise Geek and Marlett, Greg).

Bibliography

Anonymous. Wise Geek. 2003. 18 August 2011 <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-vampire.htm>.

Marlett, Greg. Squidoo. 2011. 18 August 2011 <http://www.squidoo.com/real-history-of-vampires>.