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To the right are pictures of Adrian, Cecilia, Elizabeth, Toni, Dominican, and Margaritta-who will be in the story later (Don't pay attention to this yet. There are no pictures at the moment.)
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Written by: GothicKitty77 and XxTMTxX
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I'm sorry if this story starts out slowly. I promise it will pick up! :P
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"Vampires are mythical or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person.
The term vampire wasn't popularized until the early 18th century. After a influx of vampire superstition into western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Although local variants were also known by different names such as 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.
The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and the Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from the early 18th century southeastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the religion were recorded and published. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.
Methods to destroying a vampire consisted of staking, decapitation, burning, holy water, and garlic. The staking was used in Russia with Ash wood, Hawthorn in Siberia, and Oak in Silesia. Vampires were staked in the heart, through the mouth in Russia, and in the stomach in northeastern Serbia.
Decapitation was practiced, because it was believed that if the body was seperated from the head then the vampire was unable to rise. The head was buried between the feet, or away from the body. The vampires head, body, or clothes could also be spiked and pinned to the Earth to also prevent rising if the head was not cut off. Gypsies drove steel or iron needles into a corpses heart and placed buts of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears, and between the fingers at the time of burial. Sprinkling holy water over the grave was also said to prevent rising, garlic in the mouth could kill a vampire, and shooting into the coffin was another way to be sure they wouldn't come back from the grave.
The bodies would be dismembered, burned, mixed in water, and gave to the family members as a cure to ward off the curse of vampirism."
- Cecilia Claire
(This was what they thought, but they were wrong.)
