Vampire Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - More than 200 years ago, a curious event took place that remains shrouded in mystery. As is common with events of such antiquity,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages - People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires
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Myths & Legends
AncientPages.com - The story of Count Dracula, as many of us know it, was created by Bram Stoker, an Irishman, in 1897. But most of the action takes
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The belief in vampires is widespread and goes far back in time. Stories of vampires are today mostly encountered in books and movies,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Today, many watch movies and read books about vampires because these are entertaining stories. Most people do not believe in real vampires, but
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most people in the Western world who are interested in vampires are familiar with Dracula, whose story was inspired by Vlad III, a Prince in
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Chinese Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Myths and legends of Europe, the Americas, China, Japan, and India describe terrible bloodsuckers that may differ in power and individual characteristics. Still,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The empusa initially appears in the mythology of classical Greece as a frightening female monster. She is a demonic vampire without a shape
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Chinese Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of our earlier articles we devoted to the sacred Kunlun Mountains believed to be a Taoist paradise and the central pillar of
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Glorious and scary Orava Castle is often associated with the realms of Nosferatu today, but the history of this ancient building goes much
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Slavic mythology, this winged demon is called Strzyga (in Polish). In beliefs of other cultures is known as Strix (Strigoi). Rarely known
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Colombian folklore, the Patasola (‘La Patasola’) is a female monster living on the summits of the plain. She has only one leg
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting and dangerous creatures in Cherokee mythology. One of them is the raven mocker and another one is the body
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Among Native Americans, the Apotamkin is a dangerous sea creature lurking along Passamaquoddy Bay's coast between the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Yuki-Onna or the ‘Lady of the Snow’ is an evil spirit (yōkai) lurking around and waiting for people lost in a snowstorm. She is a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient folklore of the Seminole Indians of Oklahoma in the United States, there is a vampire-like creature called a stikini ("man owl").
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The discovery of a 10-year-old's body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising
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