reply to post by Darkaner
well according to most folklore on the many variations of vampires their bite has very little to do with becoming one. usually in the western nations
reasons like dieing with out being baptized, having red hair, dying with out the last rights being performed, not getting a proper burial.
in ancient Sumaria there was the ekimmu a form of phantom psychic vampires who were created by a violent death or improper burial.
one Hindu vampire called the langsuir was created when a woman would die soon after discovering her baby was stillborn and she didn't have fangs she
sucked blood through a hole in the back of her neck and could even become human again if someone cut her hair and nails and stuffed them in the hole
in her neck.
the Tibetan book of the dead describes 58 blood drinking deities that live in underworld they were referred to as those wrathful deities.
there's also 3 related vampires. these are the hantu saburo a vampire who commands packs of dogs to hunt his victims then feeds, the next is the
hantu dodong who lives in caves and feeds off the blood of animals. finally there's the hantu parl who searches for wounded people and then drinks
there blood while there helpless
moving on to china we come to the chiang-shih a nocturnal creature who was created by a person dying a violent death with his spirit unable to be at
peace he would rise and hunt down his victims and rip them to shreds and feed on them, he was also hard to catch or confront because he could fly, its
similar to some western vamps in the respect that garlic and running water would keep them away and fire was generally considered the best way to kill
them, the strangest thing about this variation of vamp is they cant dig out of their grave it would have to escape before its body had been buried.
going south in the pacific to Australia the aboriginal people believed in a strange vampire that wasn't undead or even human it was called
yara-ma-yha-who it was a short creature who lived in fig trees and would jump out on to people and attack them with its suction cup like fingers
sucking the victims blood.
there you have a very small selection of various vampires from non western areas as the western especially the European vampires are easy enough to
find loads of folk lore on. you see unlike the movies that Hollywood has produced and the imaginations of fiction writers which have very lil in
common with most folklore and history of vampirism, the vampire is not a tragic anti-hero seducing young men and woman and bemoaning their solitary
existence in the shadows (oh the angst, woe is me). the real history of vampires is varied and sometimes horrific and sometimes sacred as with the
Tibetan and Nepalese lords of death or the Hindu goddess of death and rebirth kali.
