(I appreciate the gratitude; I was expecting to be flamed or trolled! Honestly, though, I'm sick of everyone saying Vampires just sprung out of the ground at Stoker. No, they did not!)
As I had left off in my evil rant of doom...
Vampirism is one of the most mysterious... er... mysteries of our time; from how long ago it originated, we can tell that the vampire is just as real in the psyche as it is physically impossible to manipulate.
To my surprise, as I continue this awkward and completely-personal vendetta against the Twilight vamps and their folly, I came across a startling fact; Christians, Greeks, and even Indians had thought of vampires long before Stephenie Meyer's time. (I don't care if I spelled the hag's name wrong.)
These religious groups all believed that drinking one's blood was considered passing on life; as in, taking in 'life-blood' was the equivalent of gaining more life.
Now, tell me you know that Romans were around ages ago, right? And God, time was based on God's only son's birth; AD began when Jesus Christ was born. Christians were born long before the 1200's. Indians... Their origins are mysterious, but are believed to be as old as the Romans' themselves! So, to further prove my theory that this legend is older than it is perceived... I am right!
But, now on to continue the rant that not only are vampires older than time itself, they are also more valuable than the Twilight vamps (if you can call them vampires) make them out to be. A quick example:
Back in Transylvania in the 1200s, villagers described vampires as 'unfeeling', 'evil', 'malevolent', 'completely disregarding all forms of life', and 'focused on their own personal gain through manipulation and intimidation of an opponent/prey'.
In 2009, teenage groups of squealing fangirls (known as 'R.A.H.R.' (pronounced r-AH-r) or Rabid Animals of the Human Race) describe vampires as 'sexy', 'loving', 'hot', 'cute', and 'protective', and only one of those are true, but in different perspective.
**The 'protagonist', Eliza of some sort, is the vampire Edgar's mate. In this he is protective, as he protects her against a few other vampires that come, hiss, then run off, only to come back, steal her, and make a few faces before ripping to shreds and burning in a pile of wood.
Sadly, if Edgar was really Eliza's mate, he would have changed her in .2 seconds. Not even.
Not only that!
Dracula is not protective of his wives, not even his newborn spawn! He is only protective of all that keeps him alive; the wives aren't a must, the children aren't a must, and the Chevelle parked out front is NOT a must.
Though it's awesome. ^.^
**Due to my dislike of Twilight, names above are deliberately messed up.Vampires take mates; and let us keep this straight while we can: MATES. Only MATES. Not GIRLFRIENDS, WIVES, LOVERS, NONE OF THAT!! MATES. They are animalistic and fierce, and wished to be treated as such. Anyways, they take mates, which they call, very formally, 'brides'. These
'brides' of vampires are there for one and only one purpo-- ...Okay, maybe 2 purposes.
-To swoon over and worship their master. [Because if there is one affirmative thing I know about vampires, and even Twilight vampire-wannabes have this, it's that they're completely full of both themselves and shit. That's why the older (and NOT Twilight) ones are so cunning; they can tell lies like their hair is shiny. Twilight... No, they lost their cunningness a long time ago.. Around Chapter 1. Which they were not in. So HA!!]
-To breed.
And another, because it is very true too;
-To teach the children to feed.
Like bats themselves, they swarm. This passage proves that vampires may have been erected from the vampire bat and show some of the effects of the vampire bat's venom is not far off from that of Dracula himself:
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...a species known as the "vampire bat" has been studied... because of its strange eating habits. This bat sucks the blood of its victims by making a clean cut to the neck and main artery. It's saliva contains chemicals that gradually take consciousness from the creature it is eating.
Now tell me there is no resemblance. If you do, I'll kick you in the face.
Though the vampire bat is great proof vampires originated from an animal, there a few others that can compete with it, such as the leech. The leech is perhaps the most basic, representing the idea of a slimy, forboding creature taking human blood. Vampires were once portrayed as slimy, having pale, sickly, gooey skin and red eyes. I have a belief that this is where the vampire's hatred of sunlight came from; how easily leeches can dry up when placed in the sun with no water!
Many other legends can rival that of the vampire, such as the chupacabra of South America, or the furies of Greece. The chupacabra, a blood-sucking alien creature that feasts on animals, is a vampire-like myth that originated in the hills of South America, and still exists today. The myth of the fury, or a women that sucks the life from a sleeping victim, was created in Greek times to represent the wrath of the Gods. These creatures were released upon the earth to suck sould through the mouths of their victims, and send them to agony-filled torment in Hades, or Hell.
Therefore, it is also my belief that the vampire is a combination of many creatures, myths, and legends to create one uber-legend to strike fear into the hearts of men...
And not lust into the hearts of squealing teenage girls.
While none of the above may have anything to do with what I have originally argued about (the existance of a true beginning to vampires) it all ties in to one thing; while the vampires had a beginning and there was proof the beginning was older than we are, I have also proved that the Twilight vampires aren't just modernly shallow; they're a disgrace. Dracula and even a hunter of Dracula, Van Helsing, aka Gabriel, the Left Hand of God, would spit on you.
Now bow to Dracula, Edgar.
I may conclude this argument for now, but the war is not nearly as over as you assume it is.
*bows and leaves... for now*