Vampire Secrets part 9/9

and the last part:

Vampire Secrets part 8/9

We get to know the story of Susan Walsh, who decided to write an article about the vampire clubs in New York city, the Rome of modern vampires.

She submits the story and than vanishes. No-one knows when she is and if her disappearance can be related to vampires subculture. The blood drinking societies in New York and the reasons behind there behavior are analyzed more in depth.

Vampire Secrets part 7/9

Here is the part 7 of the documentary about ancient and modern vampires. the connection between vampirism and sexuality is analyzed.
"The daemon lover" story is a theme encountered in many of the histories about vampires. The simple formula is : you have a relationship with one person only to discover that the person is a daemon creature or someone who has come back to life from the death. The morale is that sex outside normal routines can have horrible consequences.

Vampire Secrets. Part 6 . Vampire the masquerade

The case of Farell, obsessed by the game Vampire the masquerade. The image of the vampire attracts so much that some people start acting like a vampire, like a serial killer. Is the case of Rodd Farrell.

Vampire Secrets. Part 5. Vampire Killing

The tools needed in a vampire killing kit are:
- a wooden steak
- a mallet
- holly water from the local church
- a cross
- garlic

Finally we have the scientific explanation of vampire stories.



Also the documentary explains the interest of many people for vampirism and the games like the role-playing game "Vampire the masquerades"

Vampire Secrets. Part 4

Fear of vampires in XVII-th century is not due only to Elizabeth Bathory, but also associated with diseases like tuberculosis. Is interesting the comment that, after a vampire attack the villagers dig the grave and found the corpse without rigor mortis and with blood around the mouth. That means that "the Earth did not receive the body and heaven did not receive the soul". I'm stopping for one moment on this comment because I remember in Romanian religious ceremony at funerary the priest asks God that the Earth / the ground (there is the same word in Romanian) shall receive the body of the defunct. Probably exactly from preventing him/her for becoming a vampire.

A study published in 1746 by Augusting Calmet concludes that vampires do exist. At that time vampire hunting was well documented and a real occupation of the people

Vampire Secrets

A documentary about vampires, from History Channel, tryin to explain orign of vampire myth and vampire-le behaviour:

Transylvania - The Vampire

Here is a short artistic movie: the story of a vampire. A young soldier executed by Vlad Dracula in Făgăraş, after being accused of pillage and rape, swears revenge. So he comes back from time to time under the form of a young kid.

History of the Vampires

Part 2 of the documentary by RAI Due (Voyager)

While the stories seem to be true (more or less ), they continue presenting Bran Castle as Dracula's Castle, while nowadays we know quite clear that Vlad did not live in the castle.

Anyway, a very interesting short history of the vampires deserves all attention:

Nowadays vampires

First, I start by an announcment: this is the post number 100 of this blog !
While I do not believe in vampires (I never met one so far) here is a pretty frightening National Geographic docuementary about living vampires:

Well, Henry, the guy at the beginning of the documentary seems a little bit "gone" :)

Vampire Killing Kit

The Vampire hunting kit – sold for 4450 USD.

When thinking about Romania one would connect the name with Dracula, the most famous of all vampires. It happened to me to be asked, both in Italy and in France (but more in Italy) if the Dracula story starts from a little bit of truth. I always explain that Vlad Dracula was a bloody warlord, however there are no real proofs it become a vampire after he passed away :).

However, seems like selling Dracula’s Myth is a pretty good business. (Maybe that’s why the amount asked for Dracula’s Castle is around 100 m. USD.) Today I found out that an American Company, "Turner and Williams" sold on eBay a vampire killing kit - rare Dracula Antique, that they claim to have belonged to a monk in Transylvania.

According to the presentation, the kit is composed of a wooden box (made of linden tree), internal of brown velvet, and has eight compartments. Inside the box there are: a wooden hammer, 9 inches long, four wooden stakes, 9 inches each. Maybe the lime tree is not for nothing, we know the linden tee has the best relaxing, calming effect. It is also used for reducing the blood pressure, but also as an antispasmodic. In Romania the nervous babies are even being washed in linden tea. There are crosses both on the stakes and on the hammer.

The lower side of the box contains: a prayer book, a crucifix, knife and eight bottles with Pamânt (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamâie (holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and secret potion, wooden cross, a metal syringe box. They present the box as a creation of a Transylvanian monk, in 1857 – 1860. The praying book is written in old Romanian, with Cyrillic characters. This makes me wonder. Is known that by the middle of the XIX-th century Transylvania was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, therefore the majority of the books were written in Latin or Hungarian. However, they claim that the box is certified by the Romanian minister of cults and culture. The crucifix is made out of silver and put on a metal chain. There are some inscriptions like “Is est Sanctus Res ego sum decessio secundum ut meus pius futurus adsuesco assuesco obviam Malum , Nox noctis Ingredior Nosferatu , Lamia quod Intentus” ("This is the Holy Thing, I am leaving behind to my own kind to be used against the Evil, the Night Walker , Nosferatu , the Vampire and Strigoi").
According to them, the vampire experts said that this kind of kits where largely used in the XVIII – XIX century.
I personally did search on eBay and found also a Vampire hunting kit sold at 15 USD, with the mention it is made to look like old. An extensive search also revealed the Vampire Killing Kit here, selling for US $4,450.00 + shipping cost of US $90.00