The origin of vampires?

The legend of blood-sucking creatures can be traced back to thousands of years ago. In the myths and legends of early Mesopotamian civilization, ancient Hebrew civilization and ancient Roman civilization, there are demons who suck human sperm. The establishment of a truly modern vampire image comes from the arrangement, editing and publication of oral folklore in Eastern Europe in the18th century.

In these legends, a vampire refers to a corpse that can crawl out of the grave and suck blood after death. Under the condition of underdeveloped medical care, some people who didn't really die, but just went into shock, were buried and moved after waking up or waking up, and were regarded as immortal.

During the epidemic period of the Black Death in Europe, when people were in extreme panic, they would have this fear of the dead, so as to continue their activities, so there appeared a German vampire legend like Neuntoter who had the ability to infect the Black Death.

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Scientific explanation of vampires

In fact, this is a medical disease. Studies have shown that the legendary vampire may be related to rabies, because quite a few symptoms are consistent with it: photophobia, aversion to pungent odor (such as garlic), pale face, biting desire with oral muscle twitching (becoming fangs and being good at biting), transmission route (infection after being bitten) and so on.

/kloc-in the 0/4th century, a large area of plague occurred in Europe. In order to avoid infection, people often bury patients in a hurry without carefully distinguishing whether they are really dead. For some reason, when people open the grave, they will find that the body has changed its posture and is still stained with blood.

This is only because the buried people were not dead at that time and were still struggling after waking up in the coffin. But at that time, because of poverty and lack of education, such as East Prussia, Silesia, Bohemia and other places, they were called vampires, which led to vampire superstition that lasted for hundreds of years.

Slavic region has the most vampire folklore, and its history can be traced back to the 9th century, when there was a fierce conflict between Christianity and paganism. In the later recorded history, more and more events and characters that can really be associated with vampires gradually appeared. It may be because of these events that some legends really began.

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