The earliest historical reference to vampires found in the texts of the Roman philosopher Lucius Apuleius. his novel "The Golden Ass" tells the story of two evil sisters named Meroe Panthi and who drank the blood of a character named Socrates.
The figure of Living-dead blood that feeds part of old English and Danish legends dating back to the twelfth century. It was from the Enlightenment when the height of Reason decried such trickery, so the vampire stories were disappearing from the European context.
However, a return to the issue was possible thanks to the fables written by the Benedictine Father Calmet, during the eighteenth century. Spread legends about vampires in his book "A Treatise on Vampires" -published in 1746 - gathered in people from different latitudes: cities Austrian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Prussian and villas of Silesia, Moravia and Lapland.
there were also stories of this type. The Cantabrian guajón, ls guaxas Asturian or Galician witches were creatures that used a single tusk to suck the blood of their victims were usually children.
Also in the Mesopotamian region is worshiped deities called Maskin and Utuhu, looking similar to the vampires . They were responsible for the spread of plague and other deadly diseases.
Chinese in ancient times, people believed that sinners, after death, is transformed into evil vampires . For this reason, when a dying criminal, was sectioned every organ. In ancient Rome it was believed in the existence of "larvae", cadaverous-looking ghosts that revived "for not properly atoned for its sins, to take revenge on the living suck blood.
existed in the ancient Egyptian gods, vampires as Srun celebrated with lion body and large fangs. And the Phoenicians believed that high rates of child deaths were caused by the aggression of Lilitu, a ghost would rather feed homeless children's blood.
Finally, the South American Mapuche worshiped a vampire creature who named it " Pihuychen " responsible for attacking animals and humans. In addition, the presence of a frightened lizard species (aquatic vampire) they called Trelke-wekufe.
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