Trying to homebrew a "good aligned" vampire, looking for ideas.
2022年4月18日 · Vampire folklore by region. Legends of vampires have existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demonic entities and blood-drinking spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires.
Why were vampire myths so prevalent in the Balkans?
2015年2月1日 · Almost every corner of the world produces its own take on the vampire myth, but South Eastern Europe leads the pack. From Romania down to Greece there's myriad local variants on the blood-sucking undead and evidence that these myths persist well into the 20th Century (or in Romania's case, well into the 21st!).
r/folklore on Reddit: Vampire/revenant origin question (at least …
2024年1月22日 · Vampires have existed in the folklore of many cultures for thousands of years. Although legends about vampires are mostly seen in Eastern Europe, they are also seen in China. The word vampire first appeared in English in 1679, …
Name for a vampiric adjacent race? : r/fantasywriters - Reddit
2022年10月21日 · For instance, if we lived in an alternate reality and I came up with the name America for the country or the region, then the name for the aliens from that place would be the Americans. And if America has ceased to exist, the Americans would be creatures of legend.
Was Voldemort inspired by the tale of Koschei The Deathless?
2022年5月17日 · Vampire researcher VINCENT HILLYER theorized that an astral form also might be the “real” vampire in cases of the restless dead. Hillyer said the astral vampire, the spirit essence of the dead person, might be able to project itself out from the CORPSE, feed on the living, and then return to the corpse to sustain it.
Does New England region of the US have cultural lore, myths
For one of my favorites, check out the book "Food for the Dead", which is about a particular historical, non-Eastern-European New England Vampire folklore. Good stuff. What do you want, specifically? Urban legends? Lake monsters? Tall tales? Myths and legends from pre-European Colonization? Songs? Folk-rhymes? Superstitions?
In vampire literature, film, and mythology, when did the ... - Reddit
2013年10月9日 · Much of our modern western lore about vampires was indeed popularized by Bram Stoker, who drew from Slavic folklore, historical accounts of Vlad V, and his own inventions. The Wikipedia entry on Vampires cites Spence's Encyclopedia of Occultism when saying that in "some traditions" an invitation is required for a vampire to enter a home. But ...
Mulo in Romani folklore : r/romani - Reddit
2021年5月23日 · To get rid of a vampire people would hire a Dhampir (the son of a vampire and his widow)[3] to detect the vampire. To ward off vampires, Romani people drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial.
Blood/human fluids sucking creatures? : r/rpg - Reddit
2021年10月17日 · Vampire folklore by region. Legends of vampires have existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demonic entities and blood-drinking spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires.
Vampire Legends around the world : r/vampires - Reddit
2016年10月23日 · Specifically I search for Vampire-Myths in Asia, Africa, America and other parts of the world outside of europe. In Europe and the middle East there are dozends of myths, from the Upir, the Dhampir, the Strigoi, the Alp, the Bruxa, the Vrykolakas and many others, but outside this regions, the mentiones turn to as little as two or three entries ...