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People have been worried of the lifeless. Because the dawn of humanity, folks have both cared for many who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are always a many legends and beliefs about the lifeless returning, and one of the most prolonged ones is of the vampire. Everyone has heard about vampires, but few people are truly familiar with the history and folklore which may have made the mythical beings so popular. Indeed, there are so many legends from so many civilizations that it's difficult to come up with a hard description. And folklore is by its very aspect unscientific, but most people in the Western world think of vampires as those who come back from the grave to suck the blood vessels or life substance from the living. This common understanding of vampires actually obscures many Western european and most non-European practices of bloodsucking monsters. For instance, in China, Japan, and the Middle East, there are spirits that will drain the life span force of your unwary person, but these marvelous beings were never mortal humans. In African and Local American practices, there are monsters that the same, but while they are really said to be of this Earth, they, too, are not humans. Furthermore, folklore changes over time, therefore the vampires people are aware of today (and the ones some people declare to really meet) carry little resemblance to the vampires of early on modern Europe. Testimonies change, fiction converts to simple fact and vice versa, and beliefs are constantly reinvented. Ideas are adopted, adapted, and provided as true. All the while the story of the vampire remains. The Record and Folklore of Vampires chronicles how vampires became so popular.
