know your vampire

You are prolly wondering why am so obsessed with vampires huh?

And you are thinking am going to tell you right?

Wrong! Dunno either.

Know most of you already know what a vampire is and you want to me to STFU but its my blog and I get to do whatever I want so the sooner you put that n your pipe and smoke it, the easier you will breathe dear…muuhahahah

Vampires are mythological/folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on human blood and other living creatures. They are also believed to be humans who died and came back in their original body. Legend has it that people who died unnatural/premature death/violent deaths came back as vampires.

They include:-

- Hanged especially after being wrongly accused

- committed suicide

- born with deformities

- A child who died before baptism

- If you are the seventh child of the same sex in terms of birth order (you all know seven is some kind of important/magical number: the smallest prime number, James Bond’s secret agent no. 007, rugby seven aside, snow white and the seven dwarfs, forgive 7 times 77 times in the bible, Jesus was the 77th in the genealogy records etc)

The stories of vampires begun during unexplained misfortunes like famine, death, and disease. The belief became so persuasive that in some towns it caused mass hysteria that sometimes led to public execution of suspected vampires

To curb vampires people would visit the grave regularly. If there was an opened grave or a sunken grave they would retrieve the body and check it out. In some places they would take a virgin boy on a virgin stallion and make it pass in the grave yard if the horse balked on a grave it was retrieved and examined (i wonder if today they can find any virgin boys now to help root out vampires.lol.

The corpse of vampires were generally described as having healthier appearance than expected, plump and showing little or no decomposition. Sometimes had some trickle of blood on the side of the mouth (interpreted as having recently suck blood)

Scientist on the other side say that sometimes in winter the bodies don’t decompose. This causes the intestines to bloat which forces blood up in the mouth which explains the blood trickle on the side of the mouth.

Well now you know. Ta ta