With the growing popular with Vampires, many have wondered about the Vampire origin and who came up with Vampires in the first place. In most cultures around the world, there exists a creature that sucks on human blood. To the West, this had been noted as the Vampire and other countries have called it something else. I will concentrate on Vampires of the Western world.
The exact origin of the Vampire is unclear but most have believed they began during the medieval period. Back then when knowledge was still low, people would blame stupid things for silly stuff such as bad crops, death and disease. One of the things that people blamed on was dead people, especially ones that were accidentally dug up. They would discover the dead bodies to be covered with blood and mouth dripping guts. The people thought these dead people had come back from the dead and the reason for the blood in their mouths was due to them eating humans (or sucking on their blood). This was what a Vampire was and also where the term, “undead” came from. But now we know this happened because the dead bodies had not fully decayed yet.
So for people to stop them, they decided that if the Vampires can’t finish eating something, they won’t be able to eat other stuff. This is why stabbing their mouth with a lump of rock was common because rocks could not be eaten. However many have argued that Vampires came from a different period, known as the Romantic Period. This was the age where fantasy and superstition was the latest trend. Books such as Frankenstein was written at this time too.
But no matter where Vampires came from or what the origin of Vampire is, there is one thing we know for sure – they are for real!
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