Vampires are legendary creatures said to subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures,generally by drinking their blood.Although typically described as undead,some minor traditions believed in vampires that were living people.[1][2][3]
In folkloric tales,vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive.They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance.This is markedly different from modern fictional portrayals of gaunt,pale vampires beginning in the early 19th century.Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures,the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century,after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent,such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[4] although local variants were also known by different names,such as vampir (вампир) in Serbia and Bulgaria,vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.
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