#vampire lore

[farvann]

Thiiiiiinking about my vampires again and I think that their appearance is definitely affected by if they're well fed or not AND especially if the blood is fresh and "live". Live blood invigorates them and brings life back to them, making their features appear a bit more normal. Pupils more circular instead of slits, skin less pale, ears and even fangs less pointy. A vampire who has no trouble regularly feeding off live prey has a way more advantage of blending in with humans, making them even more dangerous.

[psychic-refugee]

One of the biggest criticisms of Twilight vampires is that “real” vampires don’t glitter in the sun.

The Lost Boys lore is one of the measuring sticks people like to use to disparage Twilight vampires.

I would like to point out that canonically, Lost Boys vampire blood is glittery.

So, maybe we all need to relax and calm down.

[gabrielisdead]

my vampire lore iceberg, open for criticism and suggestions

[bunnis-monsters]

You saying vampires have no blood flow means they also don't get erections

That shit is going up!! I’ll put a damn wooden dowel in his peehole!! GIMME THAT VAMPIRE COCK!!

Yeah they’re corpses but it’s fantasy… I’ll let his cock get hard.

A little solution!! Maybe vampires can only get hard once they’ve consumed blood recently? Some of the blood they consume travels to their dick. Kinda makes sense, my ideal vampire man gets horny after drinking my blood 😏

[mysteryofvampires]

I don't care what anybody says, I will always love the concept of an unbelievable beautiful vampire.

The thought of something so monstrous being hidden behind something so beautiful.

The monster inside, but no one would ever believe that it is there. They are too beautiful to even think about this.

They are so beautiful that people get almost magically drawn to them. The vampire doesn't have to do anything to get to its prey. It's coming on its own without even realising it.

The aspect of sin. The vampire turning humans on, maybe even without wanting to. They already are destined for hell, but what they provoke in humans is making it ten times worse.

Than the aspect of becoming a vampire. An arrogant, beautiful person doing anything to preserve their beauty and basically begging someone to turn them.

Or vampires that just want to hide and live in secret. But that's not possible because people notice them everywhere they go.

They are stuck in this beautiful body. Forever. And it can both be a dream or a curse.

[vyvilha]

it's interesting to me how vampire in modern media became an allegory of exploitation and abuse whereas in folklore the vampire symbolizes fear of improper death and the perpetual liminality that comes with it. the folkloric vampire is a creature that violates the rules of proper life stages (the birth-marriage-death rites of passage), usually a warlock or a child that came from a woman impregnated by evil forces, that cannot live a proper life and therefore cannot aquire a proper death and in a continuity of that cannot enter the otherworld properly. it's a warning of dangers of non-conformity. if you live a life that is other from one that's expected of you by customary law you will turn into a monster

[foxybouquet]

Dracopia rising from the mists 😍

You know that thing where vampires’ skin warms up after they feed, because they feed on living blood. That’s sort of an intrusive thought, right now.

[thecrimsonreddoor]

Having reread ‘Carmilla’ and ‘Dracula’ it pains me that modern vampire lore mostly references ‘Dracula’ with later additions like their death in sunlight from ‘Nosferatu’. The idea they’re a monster who made a deal with the devil, who can clearly be identified - no shadow/reflection, weaknesses to various things (garlic, cross, hostia, etc), is for me far less interesting, than the languidly bohème, who rises in the afternoon, despises the christian hymns/tradition from ‘Carmilla’. Who cannot be clearly identified. Carmilla in the novella even mocks such trinkets against vampires, by buying one and telling Laura how wonderful it works. The uncertainty, the ease with which, the vampires eccentricities can be explained is far more horrifying and interesting, than the definitive monster. A monster who is seemingly bound only by a form of consent and their own inner conflict, is a far more engaging.

In ‘Carmilla’ our narrator Laura never sees the ‘proof’ of Carmilla’s corpse or her “destruction”. Carmilla’s expulsion and even the rules, creation and further lore surrounding vampires told by Spielsdorf & Vordenburg are cast into question as unreliable, as Carmilla is seemingly still “alive” and following Laura a decade later. That’s fucking great! I love it!

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

I have a question about the logistics of feeding on blood for the goth/vampire universe. how bloody or gory is the feeding and do people who are bitten remember being bitten/ remain scarred or have lasting consequences?

It is bloody but not much gory as the vampire sucks the blood from the two holes made by their fangs, they don't really have to tear the flesh apart because their saliva contain blood-thinning agents, but some vampire do if they really don't care.

The person who's been bitten can feel the need afterwards to be bitten again. The bite is not addictive but the effect it has on the brain makes the victim feverish and confused (combined with blood loss). So some people just crawl back to the vampire to be fed on again (it lasts a few hours and it's an evolutionary thing: it was for the vampire to make sure they could still have food after or to feed their offspring)

On the long term, victims may feel some paranoïa at night time and the scar of the bite mark never goes away. This also prevented other vampires to feed on a vampire's human mate. Vampires who do not kill the people they feed on regularly are particularly possessive of them.

[4thofeleven]

Alright people, vampire question:

Does the area within an eruv count as a single location for the purposes of being invited in? Can a vampire cross the boundry of an eruv? If a vampire is invited into an eruv, does that allow them to travel freely within it, including into individual dwellings that they were not specifically invited into?

Discuss.

[socratesgirlnextdoor]

"don't worry, just remember that your vampires personality has nothing to do with you."

"well, actually-"

single greatest piece of foreshadowing for angel the series and later vampire lore in general!

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[mysteryofvampires]

One of my favourite pieces of the die Erben der Nacht vampire lore is their way of sleeping.

Like, normally, vampires just go to sleep some time in the morning and sleep over the day, mostly because the sun is turning them into ashes.

Not so Ulrike Schweikert's vampires. No, once the sun is rising, they just kind of fall into a literal rigor mortis. Their limbs are just turning stiff. They fall into a fucking dead-like coma once the sun is up.

They can't move. They can't think. They can't dream. They aren't aware of what happens around them. They can't wake up untill the sun sets again in the evening. They are literally dead over the day!

It's so funny because oftentimes characters just randomly topple down as though they just had a stroke or something.

It's really funny but also super cool tbh. I mean, why should vampires, undead creatures not behave like dead bodies during day time? It's brilliant!

[vyvilha]

fun facts about ukrainian vampires (opyr)

• opyri can be of two origins: born and made. made opyri are made by witches, who can smear a baby with blood of a man who went to sleep without praying, thus making the child an opyr.

• opyri have two souls. when opyr dies, only one soul goes to the otherworld. this is why they continue living after death. they aren't immortal though, and only live post-death for seven years. you can presume the person who died was an opyr and will return later if right after their death was a great storm.

• they are very merry fellas and are known to sing, dance and play musical instruments. you can see them partying if you go to the village border at midnight. they also can be spotted smoking a pipe while laying in their coffin.

• opyr can turn into variety of different things: a child, a white or a black dog, a cat, a wolf, a horseman.

• if someone sneezes and you don't respond with "bless you" such person can become an easy target for opyr.

• to get rid of the opyr, you must take them into your arms and carry them across the town or village three times. classical stake to the heart works too.

[super-ion]

I bite into the mango, sweet juice like nectar dribbles down my chin and chest.

Maybe I can convince Niv to lick me clean.

"I thought vampires couldn't eat human food," she says from her vanity, not even turning to face me.

I take another bite of it, sucking greedily at the fruit which earns an amused snort from Niv.

"What conceit to claim this as human food," I remark casually.

She opens her mouth to protest, but closes it again as she screws up her face in that adorable way when she is presented with information that runs contrary to her assumptions.

She looks at me through the mirror... or tries to at least. A brief moment of confusion and emerassed clarity later, and she turns to face me.

"What can you eat?" she asks.

I heft the mango.

"Most fruit," I reply. "Vegetables are out. Onions and garlic are poisonous. Let's see... can't have bread. Can't have coffee... I miss coffee. Best to avoid solid meat, but some of the more tender organs are alright."

"And blood?"

I grin, flashing my fangs.

"Does it have to be human?" she asks, direct as ever.

I give a little half shrug.

"Livestock blood satisfies one kind of hunger... but there's something deeper than that, kind of like a second hunger. You go too long without feeding on human blood and... well, it ain't pretty. You start to turn into something else, something a whole lot worse."

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Awww the latest vamp&goth art is so cute! Seeing your art on my dash gives me life ♡

I've got a few quick questions, if you don't mind:

1. Is Lily, like, Bad Circulation Cold or literal ice cube? Is it bc of vampirism?

2. Is Lily in any way aware of Matheo's feelings?

Thank you so much 🩷🩷

1. So literally Vampires have less blood than human beings and it also circulates slowly. So their skin is as cold as someone with really bad circulation

2. Lily has no idea that Matheo has a huge crush on her because she is convinced that her true form is so unlovable that nobody could ever love her like that. Also since she's from the 20s she has a different idea of how someone would be wooing her!