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| Orginally, before the mass exposure of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the vampire was a crossover myth between Christian and Pagan beliefs. The orginial vampire was Babylonian Lilth, the first wife of Adam. She and Adam fought over sexual power and she was thrown out of Eden. |
| In Greece, vampires were fur-breasted women who came at night to take blood. They were called demon seductresses and would drain the blood of men and children. |
| Stoker re-wrote the vampire in 1897 with his novel, Dracula. Men were now considered to be vampires, instead of women. |
| The myth that vampires are repelled by garlic came about during the time of the Plague. From 1346 to 1350, 60 million Europeans died of the plague. Spread by rats and fleas, it was a pubonic and pneumonic infection that caused the disintegration of the lung tissue. Corpses would continue to bleed long after death. The townsfolk used garlic to fight the stench of death. |
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| def. Nosferatu From old Slavic "nesufuratu", borrowed from Greek "nosophorous" Means "plague carrier" |
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