The Vampire Compendium
“Vampirism is one of the most demonic outbreaks of mass hysteria ever to sweep the world. It’s origins are rooted at the beginning of time and almost all of them are founded on superstition.” – Anthony Masters
The phenomena we call vampires has existed across the world in a variety of cultures for a millennia. They have appeared in many shapes, but they always have the same connection – Blood. They are practically the definition of fear, an evil entity crawling into your house, at night, to feed on you as you sleep.
The concept of the vampire started in Mesopotamia though in it’s early forms it was attributed to demons before revenants. The mythology has evolved for thousands of years and continues today.
This article will delve into that evolution throughout the world and history. The purpose of this article is to get a glimpse at how diverse the global mythology and history of vampires is. It will get into the different and strange incarnations from all over the world then get into how…
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Differences Between Full and Half Blood Vampires
Mark was asked “Are full bloods and half bloods the only difference in vampires? What I mean by that is that is there any different type of vampires. Such as different blood types or things like that.
What was explained to me years ago was that full blooded vampires are sired… bitten and then provided with an exchange of blood from the sire mixed with a venom. Some full bloods were said to have been virtually drained of their own blood making them essentially sterile by their maker deliberately. This so that they would not make another full blood. It was supposed to stop the psychic bond of too many vampires coming back to the original sire. It is also supposed to be this mixture of this blood and venom that turns them into what they become. Full bloods when well fed are virtually impossible to kill. They have to be starved and weakened before you can even get any blood out of their bodies. If there is any left. They are the strongest. Nothing…
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Discussing Vampires with Adamaris
This is a continuation of a discussion that began on another story here ( If you want to catch up on what’s going on you can go to Through the Eyes of a Vampire comments ). I have been requested to give this it’s own page here. Most regular visitors have seen comments posted by Adamaris and know how interesting his viewpoints on Vampires are. Maia seems to be a very intelligent and considerate person and so we can be assured of an interesting discussion here. Keep in mind that this discussion is “in progress”.
Maia to Adamaris
Is there really a limit to science? Science is often considered a paradigm for investigation, where body of knowledge and observations of our world provide a framework to explain and develop theories; which are systematically organized into sets of laws and rules. Perhaps if we enforce this aspect, science can only provide us with a finite view of the truth. If we expect science alone to provide absolute answers to a problem, we encourage misunderstandings and…
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Do Vampires Require a Period of Sleep?
This question was posted as a comment Through the Eyes of a Vampire.
Xavier wrote “I am about to be entering another “period of sleep” in what I am estimating to be less than 2 days from now, so until its over I am leaving one of my friends in charge of overseeing my posts, his name is Hekter”
Maia replied with the following:
Xavier / Hekter
Here is an area we haven’t explored and it would be interesting to understand. I have several questions if you don’t mind answering:
1) Do you have to prepare in anyway prior to entering a period of sleep?
2) Why do you need to enter a period of sleep? (I assume you do not sleep 8 hours a day like human)
3) Does one increase cycles of feeding knowing it has to sustain you?
4) Does the sleep evoke some type of vampire regeneration process? if so, can you elaborate? (Is it similar to humans regeneration process or completely different)
5) Can you be awoken during this…
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Rakshasa (Vampires) Existence in Hindu Mythology
According to Hindu mythology, the Rakshasa were considered to be demonic in appearance and their sole intention was to drink blood and eat the flesh of humans. They appeared either very beautiful or quite unattractive in appearance. According to my research, some are said to possess poisonous fingernails, shape-shifting ability, and increased strength and could move at extraordinary speed. On the other hand, there are also sub species of vampires which are the opposite. Does this sound familiar, anyone?
The 20th century romanticized ideology which is currently so popular is contrived in comparison to the observations of my great-grandfather. Vampires are commonly perceived as “evil” or the latest trend in vampirism suggests a level of benevolence, depending on your point of view. It is interesting that vampires are not viewed as possessing a plethora of emotions and attributes’, as being intelligent, possessing a level of morals and beliefs, it is either black or white. Just another reminder of how dominant western ideologies promote certain beliefs and perceptions’ to the detriment of other thoughts which exist…
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Vampires a Historical Study
I am a big fan of vampires but I wouldn’t go as far as to say I wish to be one whether they do exist or not. I have watched over 100 different vampire films and each one were different in their own way. I believe in what I see, if a vampire was to come before me then I will believe they exist but until that day then no.
What makes me wonder is the fact that all these people on here who claim to be vampires have not once used the original spelling, how I would’ve thought a vampire would say, after all its their name, that spelling is vampyre.
I have studied vampires from as early as 10000 BC. They were around when Jesus was here, I actually read in the year 31 Jesus healed all the vampires at Capernaum. Then the next vampire to be heard of was in the year in 140 which the vampires reigned victorious till the year 773, when Charlemagne defeated Quadilla the Vampire, saving Rome. Then…
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My First Encounter that led to Possible Belief in Vampires
The first encounter was the one that made me go from believing that blood vampires were pure fiction to more-than-plausible reality. Keep in mind that, prior to this encounter, I had never watched a vampire movie (not even old Dracula flicks), read a vampire book, nothing like that. I knew nothing, really, of the lore and legends.
This one took place at a nightclub in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the autumn of 1988. I was 18 at the time. My roommate and I were working at that nightclub, and that night started off normal as any other night. Because we were underage, we weren’t drinking. We were also not ingesting any intoxicating substances of any sort; in short, we were stone cold sober that night.
We had started work around 8 pm and, like I said, it started out as a normal night. About three hours into it (around 11 pm), she and I were walking towards one another and we each felt…something. It froze us each in place. It was inside our heads, under our…
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Trained to be a Vampire Hunter
In the 1980’s I was being taught by old religious men I thought were crazy. They said that they watched your kind and others like your kind, Immortal types, for many years. I could not believe this. There could not be immortals of anything except sea turtles and maybe sea horses. I was also taught by ex-soldiers. I learned how to kill your kind and slow you down with different types of weapons. Then they kicked me out because I could not take that kind of work seriously enough. I still have a hard time with this.
Their Oracle, and they had one, believed that I would betray them. Ha, Ha, betray! They believed in all kinds of weird things. It was like some kind of religious fanatical group of red necks. They even believed that David Koresh was a Messiah and sold him weapons.
Vampires, Angels, Demons, Djinns you name it they believed it was all real. They would starve us first and make us stand in the cold and rain and then try…
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Curious about Vampires Unexplored Entities
I am a curious person and I like to challenge myself by asking questions and reason over unexplored entities.
Some people claim to be vampires but I doubt that such a ’supernatural’ creature could exist as we know it from the books and movies. I do consider the possibility of an illness or abnormality of some sorts, which sounds much more plausible to me.
People debated these threads and some of the posts are very interesting indeed as well as the diversity of each opinion.
I sincerely want to, beyond anything else, find the truth, (which is quite difficult to even define). I find a great interest in watching people, the way they behave and what motivates them. Why are people unsatisfied with themselves? What is the real purpose of human life in this world? Are we the most brilliant creatures on this planet? Is humanity only a ‘pinprick’ and the world could go on happily without us?
I do think that people of this age are mostly concerned about things which don’t really matter,…
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I Think My Boyfriend is a Vampire
I met this guy and we instantly became friends, until such time we got more closer as months go on. He then started courting me which means a lot of his time was spent on me, be it through phone contact, face-to-face, et al…
As we became closer, I really noticed some traits and characteristics in him that are above the normal level of an average human being. He is an intelligent person (more on philosophies), a mind-reader which makes him enjoy just observing people through their actions, etc.. However, he always has this headache when the sun is blaring red outside, usually between 10 am – 3 pm, and his eyes cant hold on to the brightness of the day. However, if the dark comes or during night time, he can see clearly. His colleagues always tell him that he possesses an owl’s eyes because of this trait. There are times too when he tells me that his blood is boiling inside (that’s his description when he’s having that feeling). Also, he seldom sleeps…
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Do Vampires think Humans Have Souls?
This was originally posted as a comment to the article Samantha The Real Vampire
Do you think that humans have souls? I have to deal with the death everyday at work and many people believe in souls or spirits that dwell inside our flesh. Some believe that they are reincarnated souls moving from body to body. Yours, I believe would be stuck in your body for as long as you are a vampire. This could be a very long time. So, I was taught.
But other vampires that have been hunted and killed must have moved on if this is true. So a bunch more questions firstly, I will describe your kind as immortal but I know that is not 100% true. If anything ever happened to you, where do you think your soul would go and can you sense other vampires like your kind a “full blood immortal” around you. What does this feel like? Headaches? Body vibration?
Can you sense the souls, if you believe in them of a Vampire that may…
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