vampires and locations they are associated with

[palmaceae]

What's the deal with New Orleans and vampires? Is that just something Anne Rice came up with? And Transylvania, I guess that was just Bram Stoker and Vlad Tepes? What are some other hot spot vampire locations?

(Re history battle: hopefully it'll be up soon. Sorry, RL got in the way!)

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[feurisa]

If I remember correctly, the slavic countries had a myth about the dead rising which was present long before Bram Stoker. It dates back to the dark ages when medical science wasn't very good and some of the illnesses that people would contract made it appear as if they had died or were "walking" dead. Things like comas and vegetative states were also unknown so those people would be buried and exhumed later as proof of vampire activity with the apparent signs of life after "death", because they were still technically alive.

There was a large culture of superstition in a pre-christian world where even the slightest strangeness was cause for speculation and supernatural activity. There are some interesting websites on the history of the real vampire in slavic countries.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-myth-legend-and-reality-of-the-vampire.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/vampires.html