The Origin of Vampires Vampires are afraid of sunlight, garlic, crosses and holy water. Is it true?/You don't say.

First, the meaning of blood and the origin of vampires

In the Old Testament Leviticus, God warned:

(Chronicles)-If any man of the house of Israel or any stranger who sojourns among them eats any blood, I will set my face against him who eats blood and cut him off from his people. Because the life of the living is in the blood, I give you this blood to make atonement for your lives on the altar. Because there is life in the blood, it can make atonement.

When it comes to the life of all living things, it is in the blood. Therefore, I said to the Israelites, "You shall not eat the blood of any living creature, for the blood of any living creature is its life.". Anyone who eats blood will be cut off.

Christians must follow these warnings. In fact, we can understand it this way: God has defined a race like vampires-vampires are evil things that will be punished. In the Bible, we can also read the weekly Eucharist of Christianity. In the Eucharist, there are unleavened bread and water (or wine). The former represents Jesus' body and the latter represents Jesus' blood. It can be seen that blood is a sacrifice to Jesus, and only extraordinary people can enjoy it.

According to the Old Testament, Eve, the mother of all beings, was lured by snakes to steal the forbidden fruit and committed the original sin. The Lord punishes women with 18 things, one of which is menstruation. So menstruation is regarded by some Christians as the root of all impurities, and menstrual blood is evil. In the New Testament, Jesus saved all beings with his own blood, and in the last supper, he also pointed out that the blood of God has the function of atonement. Therefore, in the history of religion, it is not difficult to see that some sects used the blood of people or other creatures instead of water or wine as sacrifices to the gods, but popes in all previous dynasties resolutely opposed such sacrifices. In 772, Charlemagne promulgated a bill entitled "The Rights of Christians in Saxony", which stipulated that anyone who confused pagan beliefs with the idea that bread and wine in the Eucharist were regarded as the body and blood of Christ would be sentenced to death. This is because the anti-aging prescription prescribed by someone at that time turned out to be virgin blood. As can be seen from the above, blood is of great significance to Christianity.

The first vampire in history is said to be Cain, Eve's first child.

According to the Old Testament Genesis, Cain offered the produce of the field as a sacrifice to the Lord, while his brother Abel contributed sheep and sheep fat. As a result, the Lord took a fancy to Abel's offering. Cain was very angry. One day, Cain killed his brother Abel in the field. The Lord asked him, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain argued that he didn't know, and the Lord said, "Your brother's blood cried out to me with a voice from the ground. Open your mouth slowly and accept your brother's blood from you. Now you will be cursed by this land. When you farm, the land will no longer serve you, and you will drift on the ground. " So the Lord drove Cain out and gave him a sign that no one would meet him and kill him.

Therefore, we can understand that vampires don't die because the main thing tortures them forever. Lilitu was a Babylonian banshee thousands of years ago and often drank the blood of children. In Persia, people found a prehistoric pottery jar with a man carved on it, fighting the devil who tried to suck his blood. In the computer games "Heroes Invincible" and "Magic Gate" series, the banshee with bird body and the femme fatale with face, in ancient Greek and Roman legends, both like to drink human blood when people are asleep.

Some scholars believe that the earliest vampires appeared in China in the 6th century BC.

/kloc-in the 0/4th century, a large-scale plague broke out in Europe, which spread very fast and did great harm, causing panic in Europe at that time. Some people who got the plague didn't really die, but their relatives and friends buried them hastily, so that when some graves were opened later, people found that the bodies inside were all in various strange postures, still stained with blood, which was of course caused by the struggle of the living who were buried by mistake, but people at that time had strange associations because they were too afraid, so the story of vampires spread from poor and backward Eastern Europe to the whole of Europe.

1725, a man named Pires Plogowitz became a vampire, and eight people died at his hands. Another man named Arnold Paulle caused a large number of deaths of people and livestock. The archives of the Plogowitz incident can now be found in the Vienna Archives. In this file, the word "vanpir" appeared for the first time and was regarded as the etymology of "vampire". After these two appalling incidents, a large number of articles about vampires began to appear in Europe. The grandstanding people argued with the church whether vampires really existed, and the church firmly denied the existence of vampires.

Before that, there were two famous vampires. One is Baron delaisse during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France. He is Joan's comrade in arms. After Joan was captured, in order to gain wealth and status, he studied alchemy crazily. He tortured more than 300 children to death. His atrocities were written in the novel "Where" by Frenchman sigman in 45 1 891years later. Sigman used his imagination to describe delaisse as a standard vampire.

Another classic vampire image is the extremely famous Dracula (the word means dragon or devil). He is the overseer of the Principality of Varesia on the Danube, formerly known as Vlad, but Drakula is actually his nickname. Dracula became a national hero of Romania because he defeated the Ottoman army, but he was also a tyrant who could slaughter thousands of people for a moment's pleasure. Like Dulles, his cruelty is also recorded in books, that is, Drakula by the Englishman Stoke. This book has created a vampire myth, and Dracula's image has been widely used in movies, computer games and novels. "Surprise for 400 Years" and "Dracula-Resurrection of Evil Spirit" both tell the story of tyrants. In these movies and computer games, vampires even become synonymous with "romance" like knights.

In any case, the legend of vampires has been developed to this day, which should be attributed to the textual research articles and novels in Europe hundreds of years ago.

Second, what is a vampire?

The original image of vampires is pure demons and enemies of human beings.

Vampires are usually described as undead creatures without body temperature and breathing. They have human wisdom. They lie in coffins during the day and come out at night. They can atomize their bodies or become vampire bats. They have great power, and the way to maintain this power is to suck blood. When they suck blood, the person who is sucked will lose the power to resist.

So in the game, they are described as terrible and headache opponents. In the series "Heroes Invincible", the vampire may be one of the most popular arms, because it will not be countered when attacking the enemy, and the blood it sucks can effectively restore its own health. This popular creature got preferential treatment in Magic Gate 8: the game allows players to play a vampire role, so players can use the vampire's natural floating skills, which is really "cool" when flying over large traps.

In the game with Dungeons and Dragons as the background, vampires are one of the most troublesome enemies for players. In Bode Gate II, vampires have great abilities: they must use weapons with enchantment value of+1 to do damage to them, and toxins, paralysis, hypnosis, charm and immobility are all invalid. Ice and electricity can only do half the damage, which can absorb the player's experience level. When the level is 0, the player dies. Only wooden stakes can completely kill them.

However, anne rice believes that vampires are not afraid of stakes, garlic and holy water. What they are really afraid of is sunshine. Garlic and holy water have no effect on them, and the stakes just make them temporarily unable to move. Some people with strong religious beliefs may be able to temporarily shock vampires with the help of sacred objects, but they will never die.

Another possible misunderstanding is that people who have been fed by vampires will also become vampires. This statement is considered wrong by some people. Only when the vampire sends his blood into the victim's body and merges with the victim's blood-this fusion process is called "hug", that is, "first hug", can the victim be transformed into a new vampire. But many times, vampires are not necessarily willing to do this. So the transformation of the victim depends on the vampire's own will. We can imagine that if a vampire falls in love with a human opposite sex, he or she will definitely do so.

Humans who are embraced for the first time will not lose their original will immediately. There will be a process. After they feel that their thirst for blood has increased, they will also be afraid of high temperature and sunshine. Finally, they will become the descendants of smokers in an irresistible desire. However, according to the commandments of the vampire secret party, a vampire is not allowed to have his first hug at will, and he must be responsible for the behavior of his descendants. This commandment also proves from another aspect that not all people taken away will become new vampires, in fact, most of them will not.

Because vampires don't age and have eternal life, which gives them enough time to witness the changes of the world and the development of human society, most of their members don't respect short-lived humans and are extremely jealous of creatures that can move freely in the sun, which makes their desire to suck blood even more terrible.

Third, vampires in modern society.

We often see some great villains who are extremely greedy and oppress the poor crazily in literary and artistic works. These hateful guys are often regarded as "vampires" by writers and readers. Vampires have also become synonymous with greedy predators. Using the name of a demon creature to describe a person shows that people hate inequality. The value created by the hard work of the working people and the poor people is as precious as their blood.

But in recent years, the image of vampires has been greatly improved in literary and artistic works. This is partly because of some people mentioned in the last article: writing about Osman there, writing about Stoke in Drakula, etc. These works describing vampires inherit the vampire culture and give future generations the opportunity to adapt them. The two films "Amazing 400 Years" and "Dracula 2000" are simply vindicating the evil vampire. This is not so much a creepy ghost story as a lingering ghost story. Dracula portrayed the vampire as a moving image of horror, excitement, romance and infatuation in the film, and the horrible monster immediately became sad-Dracula was willing to give up everything including his eternal life in pursuit of love in the film. In 2002, two films about vampires attracted people's attention, one was The Cursed Queen, and the other was The Shadow of Vampires. The fundamental reason for attracting people's attention is that both works have made bold innovations in plot and shooting techniques: Shadow of the Vampire takes the shooting process of the fictional classic vampire horror film Nosferatu as the story theme, and the director in the story actually invited a real vampire to shoot the film. This bizarre plot greatly masks the absurd elements in the content and makes the film quite enjoyable. In terms of shooting techniques, a large number of black and white images fully show the documentary characteristics of traditional montage, which greatly enhances the realism of the film. The Vampire Queen is adapted from the second book of anne rice's famous best-selling novel series. The protagonist is a vampire queen who has been sleeping in the Arctic icehouse for 6,000 years.

In addition, anne rice's Interview with Vampires at Night is definitely a book that makes vampires feel grateful. The vampires in rice's novels have human secular desires and emotions. The book tells a story: after losing his dear brother, Louis was first embraced in despair by the vampire Lester. Lester wanted Louis to be a real vampire, but Louis kept his humanity and only drank the blood of livestock. Lester was furious and turned Louis' sister Claudia into a vampire, which led to Claudia's resistance. She was enslaved and killed Lester, but in the end she died, leaving her brother Louis alone forever. In Les's story, vampires also know the pain of losing their loved ones: Lester gave his mother the first hug to save her after she was terminally ill, and turned her into a vampire, so that she could stay with her mother forever as she wished. Les's novels have a great influence. Her discussion of vampire's "humanity" makes her works a required reading for English or philosophy courses designated by many high schools and universities.

In the computer games about vampires released in recent years, Vampires-Masquerade took over the baton of exploring vampire humanity from Les. Christopher, the protagonist of the game, is not willing to be a slave to the dark forces. He is determined to fight against the dark forces in himself. Suffering from instinctive evil desires, Christopher fought tenaciously. The fierce confrontation between good and evil, beauty, ugliness and righteousness is a highlight of the game. In my opinion, no matter what Christopher's final outcome is, the image of vampires has been fundamentally renovated. The spirit and humanity of fighting evil are the most important.

The background of Vampire-Masquerade is taken from White Wolf, a card game with the theme of Vampire. In Europe and America, in addition to computer games, vampire card games also occupy a large market share, and Vampires: The Eternal Struggle is a very famous vampire background setting. A vampire-themed game "Hunter: Cataclysm" will soon be launched on Xbox, a home game console, where players can enjoy new vampire legends.

Undoubtedly, the legends of vampires are all fictional, and the superstitious elements in them are not surprising to modern civilization. Vampire, an ancient theme, is still popular today, and it is frequently introduced in movies and computer games. It can be seen that vampire culture with unique charm still has a considerable market. Whether it's romance or cruelty, insanity or human nature, we all have to admit that vampires are still people after all. The brilliance or ugliness reflected by vampire culture and vampire-related works must belong to the root of creating this unique culture-human beings themselves. Because we have all kinds of qualities of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, vampires are so colorful.