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Rani of Night
Registered User
(11/14/05 8:58 pm)
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Vampire Legends, without the light thing killing them?
Okay. I love every fairy tale out there. but i am mostly interested in ones with vampires. But i read a book called TWILIGHT writen by Stephenie Meyer. The vampires dont die in sun light. they just glow. and dont have wings or turn into bats. I am looking for more stories like that. Something that could be true. I believe strongly in vampires, Faeries, mythilogical creatures, the dark creatures. Espesially the anamithim. Thanks to those who help me out a little bit. i am doing research on it for extra credit in my English class. thanks again
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(11/14/05 9:46 pm)
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vampires and light
I don't know about realisticness, but I do believe that in Stoker's Dracula, sunlight doesn't kill the vampire; it merely prevents him from turning into a bat or mist or moonlight.
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neverossa
Registered User
(11/15/05 1:03 am)
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The real vampire
The ethnic vampire (the historical one, previous to the romantic one of literature), is hardly killed by the sunlight. Anyway if you want reality check this:
Paul Barber, VAMPIRES, BURIAL AND DEATH.
It deals with medicine (that is what really happen to the body after death, and why some corpses could look plump, full of blood - the features of the vampires -instead of withered and decayed) and the alleged vampires of central and eastern Europe of the eighteenth century. An interesting reading, but far from Rice, Stoker, Polidori and all the gothic literature, I'm afraid.
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LadyErmine
Unregistered User
(11/15/05 2:30 pm)
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Vampires
The idea of the vampire being destroyed by sunlight was first introduced n the 1922 film NOSFERATU - which was based on Stoker's DRACULA so blatantly that his widow, Florence, fought for her copywright, and had most copies destroyed - however the heroine persuades the vampire (Graf Orlock) to stay with her all night, so he is destroyed by the first rays of the sun. This image was so powerful that it has attached itself to vampires ever since, but Dracula is certainly seen by daylight - eyeing ladies in Piccadilly or annoying the wolves at London Zoo. Previously vampires in fiction had certainly wandered about by daylight - the first English fictional vampire, Lord Ruthven has no problem with it, neither does Varney or Carmilla. They were also revived by having their bodies placed in the light of the full moon, an idea which we have pretty well lost (apart from a short story by Manley Wade Wellman). The vampire of folklore is not confined to nightshifts either. Polish vampires, for example, come out at noon... turning into bats is a comparatively late development too, and essentially fictional.
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