Three diseases to bring up the "Vampire"

Blood worship manufacturing myth of communicable diseases in stirring Vampire: a tale of true course

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The nickname "de la Cura" Flade III, later to become the most famous "Vampire".

Recently, the best-selling novel under the United States in the evening light city "movie theaters in the country.

In the film Chao shuai industry and business, blue vampire brother led the world girls wave after wave of scream, "the Vampire" and the newer topic heats up. Then, the legend of the "Vampire" is how, in the history have gone through what changes?

1 origin of the

The source of many myths of history

In Greece myth, amp Sara (Empusae) is the netherworld and the goddess Hecate's daughter, she seduced young men to learn from their blood.

The Babylonian legends have a demon called Lili figure (Lilitu), it relies on to drink the blood of newborn infants living; the term later transform into Hebrew "Lily," (Lilith), it can absorb all the blood. Cain is also considered one of the sources of the vampire legend. According to the Bible, Cain is Adam's son, killed his brother Abel, punished. According to legend, Cain was wandering near the Red Sea, who I met because God hop Red Sea become night's Kiki's Lily. He from Lily, there learned using blood and use magic and power.

"Vampire" (vampir) this word comes from the phrase "Albania teeth" and "blood".

This word originated in 1047 years, the earliest use of the word is said to be a priest on Russia. He is a Prince to use when translating a book "as" Upir'Likhyi signature, means "evil vampires." Some people think that this is just a joke.

In addition to legendary figures, there are several historical figures are often linked with the vampire.

Lesley (Gilles deRais) Baron is a 15th century France aristocracy. In his later years have a crush on Alchemy in the hope that the blood was found in the philosopher's stone. The 17th century, Hungary-Torre (ErzsebetBathory) Countess of bloody events are also very famous. She was in her seyit (Csejthe) Castle abuse killed more than 300 young girls.

The most famous "Vampire" is valachia Principality (Valachie) of Grand Duke Flade III.

Valachia Principality in the West now luomaliya. Flade III's father is Holy Roman Empire of the "Royal Dragoon Regiment". Romania in "de la library" (dracul) represents the "Dragon", so his alias "de la Cura" or "de la library" that is, the "Dragon's child". Flade III in numerous Donau defeated several times their own army in Turkey. He has captured more than soldiers were stripped of clothes were uncovered, and burned into the up to 1 km, around the towns of stakes. In 1897, the novel "de la Cura (Dracula) published the book the Flade III description into a vampire, the book became a vampire literature classic.

Reflect Flade III executed prisoners of printmaking.

2 cultural

Overall image changes

The vampire legend has several obvious psychological origin.

The most obvious psychological origin is the worship of the blood. Human blood loss will be unable to, or even death, it is a very easy to be observed phenomenon, so blood cultures regarded as the essence of the human body. Vampire is considered the essence of the "lessons of the human body to fatten" behavior. The soul and the physical separation is the vampire legend of another psychological origin. Slavs believed that the soul after death will continue wandering for 40 days, evil soul will make use of animal and human body of chaos, this is the modern Vampire Legends. Christianity in Europe dominates, the vampire is treated as "one of" the enemy of Christ. In Russia the folklore, vampire is the Church of the people or the Witch's ghost into. This allows the vampire with a political nature.

Now, it is difficult to folklore vampire

painting a "standards". In the early days, many vampires have been described as face swelling, face is red, purple or black, the causes of these features are often attributed to just suck blood.

1897 Stokes (Bram Stoker) novel "de la Cura (Dracula) laid the foundations of modern vampire novels.

In contemporary literary and artistic works, the vampire General is set to pale, emaciated, mouth out long canine teeth. They are immortal, afraid of sunlight, the cross and the garlic, bitten by vampire without dead person also becomes a vampire.

3 centers

"Vampire" and diseases

Speaking of most direct Vampire Legends sources, or "seeing is believing."

Ancient people the lack of scientific knowledge, often put some natural phenomena as "evidence of the Vampire".

The human body in the case of underground corruption is complex, and some burial a paragraph has been dug out, looks and other bodies.

Some body corruption slowly will be assumed to be "dead"; body corruption so fast that the body produces a lot of gas, the body swelling up, squeeze the blood gases to facial skin, nose, mouth, "face red, epistaxis," impression; some people after death because of the soft tissue atrophy, teeth, nails, hair reveal more, give the "death also in growth" impression ... Since no modern medical diagnostic methods, there are people who will be subjected to the death, a misjudgment of the alive. Open the coffin coffin found after a struggle of fingerprints, or nose and will hit the coffin, hit the bleeding, as evidence of the "Vampire". Infectious diseasesFanning the flames for the vampire legend. These diseases do not understand people often do not know about infectious diseases attributed to "disrupt" the vampire. Like tuberculosis, plague infecting (black) such diseases, can cause lung tissue of ulcers, resulting in a outlet epistaxis, may be mistaken for "just suck blood." And contacts will cause other people will be mistaken for "Vampire harm"results.

Rabies is also referred to as the "Vampire" source of the legend of the entity.

Spain doctor Alonso (JuanGómez-Alonso) in the psychiatry journal issued said, fear of garlic smell and afraid of the light may be rabies symptoms of hypersensitivity. Rabies will make you sleep disorder, a nocturnal and "sexual frenzy" symptoms. At the same time, the Wolf and the dog are considered and vampires, they also is rabies carriers.

Most like the "Vampire" is "Porphyrin syndrome".

Porphyrin disease is a metabolic disorder disease, patients with disorders of heme production mechanism, resulting in the accumulation of a light-sensitive chemical substances "Porphyrin" so that patients with bone and urine color to red, and the patient's teeth also becomes dark brown or purple. Porphyrin may be sunshine into corrosive poison, the most serious symptoms can cause body deformation — patient ears and nose is "eat" off the lips and gums are affected by corrosion, exposing red teeth, skin, scar, such as a zombie-like white (reflecting the potential of anemia). Because the anemia treatment through blood transfusions, some scholars have speculated that in European medieval dark ages, Porphyrin disease patients may attempt to drink the blood of this folk remedies for treatment. Aside the truth of this assertion, the Porphyrin in certainly recognize non-day adventure in the outdoors. They probably know that you want to avoid the garlic garlic, because of some chemical substances are considered to be heavier hematoporphyrin disease symptoms, make minor was suffering from disease. In short, Porphyrin in patients with the legendary "Vampire" a lot of features.

Porphyrin parent compound porphine space fill models.

Interviews/reporter Liu Zheng