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Good morning. The legend전설 of the Vampire actually goes back for centuries and it exists in some form or another in almost every culture, in fact, some people believe the first vampire story was in the bible. But for most of us, we imagine vampires lurking숨다 in the woods, preying on괴롭히다 small towns and villages in those hours between dusk땅거미 and sunrise. Why did people believe they had so much power and did they really exist? We went in search of the truth.

 

Under the cloak망토 of darkness, they come. Legions군단 군대 of the undead. Rising from their graves to prey on괴롭히다 잡아먹다 the innocent. Or at the very least, to invade and captivate사로잡다 our imaginations, the vampire reinvented in stories, legends for centuries. “I am Dracula.” And even today, they’re back again. “Stay away from me.” This time as lovesick사랑에 번민하는, romantic and just slightly dangerous. “Vampire.” The Twilight땅거미 series has created an almost cultish사교 following among twins. “They want the vampire to be glamorous매력적인 and romantic now. They don’t want a monster that they can relate to. They wanna see that human side of the vampire.”

 

Anne Rice, the bestselling author of what is widely considered the first modern vampire novel says the notion관념 의견 of vampire is almost irresistible저항할 수 없는 to the human psyche정신. “The vampire is just a powerful metaphor은유 상징하는 것 for the outcast추방된 사람들 in all of us, for the monster in all of us, for the predator약탈자 포식동물 in all of us.

 

Vampires, the stuff of nightmares, legends전설 and myths신화, but is there now proof or at least evidence that something was going on? These 16th century remains유골 of a 60-year-old woman just uncovered near Venice show a brick in her skull해골. In 1966, a small town outside of Prague was the site of the major discovery. 14 skeletons were found. Their mouth filled with stones and sand and their head cut off. “Why did they do all of these things to the bodies?” “To prevent them from coming back and biting someone.”

 

But the bones, say experts, only proof of fear and ignorance. “There were so many reasons that we’re purely biological생물학적, pathological병리학적인 really about how a body decomposes부패하다 that was misinterpreted as being signs of a body having a life after death.”

 

When you say vampire, you almost stories think of Rumania and count생각하다 Dracula. But in fact, Bohemia or today’s Check Republic was critical to the rise of the vampire legend. Almost every cemetery in Prague is teeming with가득하다 stories. 

 

One favorite story about the no-name vampire buried here who lured victims with his music. "He begins to gather a crowd and over time, people would notice that neighbors were still disappearing and they never knew if these sounds were of the accordion or actually his victims' screams.” Small towns and villages struck by disease and death were breeding grounds for vampire lore민간전승. "Everything from a crop failure to the plague역병 to infant mortality유아사망 would be explained away by one of these tales, something like the vampire did it.”

 

Did vampires exist? One thing we know for certain is that the legends will live on. “The vampire will always be a character with whom we somehow identify in our own mortality사망 and in his or her own immortality불멸 영속성.” “The vampire is never going to go away. There will be more and more revivals. We’re going to have continued romance with the vampire.” And of course, it’s a romance that’s also become a tourist bonanza and not just in the grave yard tours and the dark forest of Eastern Europe.

 

But also in the small town of Forks, Washington, the setting for the Twilight series and the movie, that small town is now seeing 100 tourists a day. Our fascination with the undead seems as strong as ever.

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