Causing blights and crop failures
It is said in some Hungary material that the vampire can cause whole crops to ruin. The Hungarians employed the talbos, a kresnik who sole purpose was to protect crops from the vampires.
The kresnik were a mid-European vampire fighter group.
Causing impotence
This only applies to the Nosferatu
Control of animals
It is said that vampires can also control the actions of wild animals. I say wild animals, because in most literature domesticated animals tend to demonstrate fear towards the vampire, or a need to protect their owner.
Create other vampires
Depending on which book you read determines on the creation of the vampire. Some publications will have you believe that the vampire will rise from a person being drained on three occasions (Dracula), other books will say that if you survive an attack from a vampire (Near Dark, Blade), but have been bitten then you are more than likely to become a vampire. One of the most popular is that the person is willing to become a vampire, and must drink the blood of a vampire to become one (Anne Rice).
The process of becoming a vampire in all case has one common denominator; the subject will die before becoming a vampire. Or as Lestat said to Louis, "It happens to everyone."
Eternal life
As I have already pointed out, the vampire is undead. Once undead, the creature can not die through natural means. They do not ail from illness, but they are not invulnerable. They can still die from misadventure; at the hands of another, daylight, fire and others, which I will cover later on.
Flight
It is said that some vampires have harnessed the ability of flight. This activity is normally associated with witches, who would ride their broomsticks, but similarly the civipipiltin of Mexico could also be seen astride a broomstick. The West Indies loogaroo would explode from their skin as a fireball, flying. Some vampires simply defy the laws of gravity, by flying in the humanoid form and others transform into flying animals, such as bats, birds or insects.
Mesmerism
To mesmerise is to control by hypnotism. This apparent feature has been widely used by Count Dracula in both the books and the variety of hammer movies. The vampire is able to control a human by the power of seduction and suggestion, breaking their will, to command to do whatever the vampire requests.
Misting or vaporising
The misting or vaporising of a vampire can be associated with the beliefs that when the soul leaves the body in a grave, that the soul becomes a mist. The vampire is said to be able to exit an underground coffin in this fashion, changing to mist and seeping out through the ground.
Scale walls
Vampires are able to climb vertical surfaces with falling. When seen they move up the sides of buildings like spiders, hugging onto the stone-work, gracefully approaching an open window to meet their prey.
Senses
It is widely believed that the vampire has heightened senses. Because the creature spends so much time in the dark it must have a night-like vision, probably infrared. Due to its animal associations with creatures like bats and birds it is easy to assume that vampires have excellent hearing. As for touch in some literature it is believed a vampire can feel the throbbing of a heartbeat on the wall surrounding its prey.
Speed
A vampire is said to be able to move with great speed. The vampire's body is so well-tuned when it has fed that it can demonstrate a number of complex movements in a single heartbeat. It is so natural for a vampire to do this that on occasion they forget the normal time a human performs the same actions and reveal themselves as what they truly are.
Stealing organs
The jigarkhwar of India would take the liver and the upier of Poland would feast on the heart.
Strength
A vampire's strength is several times more potent than that of the average man. The blood a vampire consumes contributes heavily to its strength, an unfed vampire is weaker and vulnerable. As time goes by, the vampire becomes stronger, therefore an older vampire demonstrates a superior physical strength than its younger vampires.
Transformation
One of the vampires' greatest defences is to take on another form. Commonly the form of a bat or a large hellish wolf, but it is believed that the creature of the night can adopt other visages. These different shapes also include birds, rats, fleas, locusts, mice, dogs and even fleas.
Bat
Fact: The term vampire bat followed the description and not the other way around. The real vampire bat is a name given to specie of bat known as desmontidae found in Central and South America. They do indeed feed on blood, and when discovered by the Europeans during the great explorations, they were given the name, 'Vampire Bat.' It was the Spanish explorers that first discovered this unusual breed of bat during the 16th century and gave them the name from the folklore creature, because of the creatures unusual feeding habits.
The transformation into a bat gave the vampire the ability of flight, and even today the term vampire does conjure the image of a humanoid who has the ability to change into a bat.
Wolf
It is believed that a tribe in Montenegro believed that every vampire must spend some time in wolf form. The wolf form has a great deal of contradictions through the history of vampires. In Slavic and Gypsy folklore the wolf was a fierce enemy of the vampire. In some villages in Romania white wolves were used to protect the people from the vampires. Even today gypsies of Kosovo believe that all vampires are doomed to wander the earth until a meeting with a wolf, which would tear them apart.
Birds
The aswang and bruxsa vampires often transformed into large birds.
Rats
The rat and the vampire share so much, both are carriers of disease, nocturnal and shunned by the human populace. They also represent death and destruction. In some literature a vampire is said to be able to change into a rat, others claim that the vampire can turn into a whole family of rats.
Fleas
The Slavs and the Russians agreed that the vampire has the ability to change into a flea. This derives from the flea's thirst for blood.
It is said in some Hungary material that the vampire can cause whole crops to ruin. The Hungarians employed the talbos, a kresnik who sole purpose was to protect crops from the vampires.
The kresnik were a mid-European vampire fighter group.
Causing impotence
This only applies to the Nosferatu
Control of animals
It is said that vampires can also control the actions of wild animals. I say wild animals, because in most literature domesticated animals tend to demonstrate fear towards the vampire, or a need to protect their owner.
Create other vampires
Depending on which book you read determines on the creation of the vampire. Some publications will have you believe that the vampire will rise from a person being drained on three occasions (Dracula), other books will say that if you survive an attack from a vampire (Near Dark, Blade), but have been bitten then you are more than likely to become a vampire. One of the most popular is that the person is willing to become a vampire, and must drink the blood of a vampire to become one (Anne Rice).
The process of becoming a vampire in all case has one common denominator; the subject will die before becoming a vampire. Or as Lestat said to Louis, "It happens to everyone."
Eternal life
As I have already pointed out, the vampire is undead. Once undead, the creature can not die through natural means. They do not ail from illness, but they are not invulnerable. They can still die from misadventure; at the hands of another, daylight, fire and others, which I will cover later on.
Flight
It is said that some vampires have harnessed the ability of flight. This activity is normally associated with witches, who would ride their broomsticks, but similarly the civipipiltin of Mexico could also be seen astride a broomstick. The West Indies loogaroo would explode from their skin as a fireball, flying. Some vampires simply defy the laws of gravity, by flying in the humanoid form and others transform into flying animals, such as bats, birds or insects.
Mesmerism
To mesmerise is to control by hypnotism. This apparent feature has been widely used by Count Dracula in both the books and the variety of hammer movies. The vampire is able to control a human by the power of seduction and suggestion, breaking their will, to command to do whatever the vampire requests.
Misting or vaporising
The misting or vaporising of a vampire can be associated with the beliefs that when the soul leaves the body in a grave, that the soul becomes a mist. The vampire is said to be able to exit an underground coffin in this fashion, changing to mist and seeping out through the ground.
Scale walls
Vampires are able to climb vertical surfaces with falling. When seen they move up the sides of buildings like spiders, hugging onto the stone-work, gracefully approaching an open window to meet their prey.
Senses
It is widely believed that the vampire has heightened senses. Because the creature spends so much time in the dark it must have a night-like vision, probably infrared. Due to its animal associations with creatures like bats and birds it is easy to assume that vampires have excellent hearing. As for touch in some literature it is believed a vampire can feel the throbbing of a heartbeat on the wall surrounding its prey.
Speed
A vampire is said to be able to move with great speed. The vampire's body is so well-tuned when it has fed that it can demonstrate a number of complex movements in a single heartbeat. It is so natural for a vampire to do this that on occasion they forget the normal time a human performs the same actions and reveal themselves as what they truly are.
Stealing organs
The jigarkhwar of India would take the liver and the upier of Poland would feast on the heart.
Strength
A vampire's strength is several times more potent than that of the average man. The blood a vampire consumes contributes heavily to its strength, an unfed vampire is weaker and vulnerable. As time goes by, the vampire becomes stronger, therefore an older vampire demonstrates a superior physical strength than its younger vampires.
Transformation
One of the vampires' greatest defences is to take on another form. Commonly the form of a bat or a large hellish wolf, but it is believed that the creature of the night can adopt other visages. These different shapes also include birds, rats, fleas, locusts, mice, dogs and even fleas.
Bat
Fact: The term vampire bat followed the description and not the other way around. The real vampire bat is a name given to specie of bat known as desmontidae found in Central and South America. They do indeed feed on blood, and when discovered by the Europeans during the great explorations, they were given the name, 'Vampire Bat.' It was the Spanish explorers that first discovered this unusual breed of bat during the 16th century and gave them the name from the folklore creature, because of the creatures unusual feeding habits.
The transformation into a bat gave the vampire the ability of flight, and even today the term vampire does conjure the image of a humanoid who has the ability to change into a bat.
Wolf
It is believed that a tribe in Montenegro believed that every vampire must spend some time in wolf form. The wolf form has a great deal of contradictions through the history of vampires. In Slavic and Gypsy folklore the wolf was a fierce enemy of the vampire. In some villages in Romania white wolves were used to protect the people from the vampires. Even today gypsies of Kosovo believe that all vampires are doomed to wander the earth until a meeting with a wolf, which would tear them apart.
Birds
The aswang and bruxsa vampires often transformed into large birds.
Rats
The rat and the vampire share so much, both are carriers of disease, nocturnal and shunned by the human populace. They also represent death and destruction. In some literature a vampire is said to be able to change into a rat, others claim that the vampire can turn into a whole family of rats.
Fleas
The Slavs and the Russians agreed that the vampire has the ability to change into a flea. This derives from the flea's thirst for blood.
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