BLOGPOST 2: Vampires

Vampires, what are they? Can I become one? Are they real? These are just some of the many questions that have surrounded the belief in vampires over the last 500 years. The aim of this essay is not to answer these questions but to look at the relation between the historical understanding of the vampire legend and the vampire literature of today.

Some people says that Vampires are cool! They can live for centuries without growing old, and they have many magical powers. Nasty, filthy, evil creatures. That's what vampires are. They only look beautiful on the outside, but their intentions are terribly dishonorable. They swoop down on us from the dark, they grasp us in their unbreakable grip, they suck out our blood. Sometimes they seduce us into having sex with them. Really great sex. Sometimes they even make us into one of them. Awful. No wonder we hate and fear and despise them.

I read an article entitled "Are Vampires Real? The Science Behind the Myth" by Jeremy Kaplan from the site foxnews, they turned the stories of vampires into science. Elements of the vampire legend are based around facts, combined into a scary whole. Vampires are mostly living and more comfortable on the dark. They're sensitive to sunlight. This is the case for people afflicted with porphyria. Porphyria is is extremely rare, of course, but not so its milder cousin, polymorphic light eruption. This is an allergic reaction and formed of  bumpy and itchy rashes on sun-exposed skin. It's an immune reaction. Vampires are the ones who can live long or immortal. 

They've researched about that case and it is just because of our "immortalized cells." The aging process is partly predicated on the lifespan of our cells, as long as they continue dividing, we remain young, and the structures in our cells are called telomeres.  There's an actual chemical in our cells that may hold the secret to eternal youth, and if so, it may explain how vampires can live forever. Vampires suck blood like mosquitoes bats and other creatures drink blood, but humans rarely do,  unless they have an anemia. The pattern of eating non-foods or even blood, can result from anemia. It explains one of the characteristics associated with the creatures of vampires. 

According to Jeremy Kaplan, "The logical proof that we just presented is of a type known as reduction ad absurd um, that is, reduction to the absurd." Vampires cannot exist, since their existence contradicts the existence of human beings. That may be hard science, but it's hardly as entertaining as the fiction. Vampires of various types have been around in fiction for a long time and in most cultures. I think it is not that bad to believe in vampires because it is just a fiction that they do really exist in our world we all know that vampires doesn’t exist, they do but in different ways .

I read another article written by Linda Geddes, "For the vampire buffs, here's an origin story" from the site of newscientist. Vampire legend might have emerged from the most common thing that happen to bodies as they decompose. First is the blood and other bodily fluids leak out of the mouth and nose. Second, bacterial activity causes the stomach and intestines to bloat. Third, Guttural sounds sometimes emanate from the corpse triggered by the release of gases. These have been described as groaning or sighing sounds. Lastly, the nails and beard appear to continue to grow after death. If you combined all these things, you may think that they're dead but they're not yet dead and before knowing it you would include that the corpses are bloated from gorging on the blood of the living. 

The possibility to think that comatose or unconscious patients may have been mistakenly buried alive, and you have the dead rising again. Some people in Rominia are afraid of vampires because there's this six family members who participated in this "vampire slaying" were eventually caught and jailed, greatly angering the local villagers, who believed that they had performed a great service. The leader of the gang told police that the corpse had blood around his mouth, and had moaned when they stabbed him and that was the reason why they're think vampires are true. The fiction and stories about vampires are just from the causes of death of humans.

According to Linda Geddes, "The appearance of bodies as they decompose might have been one source of inspiration." If you can see, there's just a lot of diseases that are associated to vampires. Vampires aren't true. Vampires are known mythological people who subsist by feeding on the life of living creatures, regardless of them being undead or a living person. The appearance of so many vampire-like monsters throughout history, as well as our continued fascination with vampires, demonstrates that this is a universal response to the human condition. It's simply human nature to cast our fears as monsters. Real vampires are different from the one describe in the myths and legends. To put it simply real vampires are living humans with certain abnormalities heightened psychic abilities. Vampirism considered as paranormal phenomena, is not genetic or influenced by heredity and actually acquired or developed based on my research it usually during the early stages of adulthood.