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I had heard of people claiming to be vampires for a long time
before joining Les Vampires.
Most of them I didn't take too seriously,
as they were claiming to be able to live forever,
turn into bats and fly.
Most so-called vampires are never willing to offer any proof
of their claims.
It's sad when someone with the spelling and grammar of a
13-year-old claims to be a 2000-year-old immortal
who went to school with Aristotle.
Their stories are obviously full of contradictions and errors in logic.

However,
I had also run into a few "mortal" vampires,
although they didn't call themselves exactly that.
Some say that they are "inheritors",
"viral vampires", "sanguinarians" or whatever,
in an effort to distinguish between
their condition and the vampires of legend.
The symptoms of vampirism they describe are
much more like an illness or genetic abnormality than anything paranormal.
Being a mortal vampire doesn't appear to have any benefits
that would cause anyone to either wish they were one,
or pretend to be one,
so I see no reason not to take their claims seriously.

I believe that there must be some kernel of reality
from which the myths of various cultures have grown.
Stories of vampirism have appeared all over the world,
even in cultures that developed in isolation,
which isnt likely to be mere coincidence.

Any story that gets passed along verbally eventually becomes
exaggerated out of all proportion to what actually happened.
Take, for example, "The Man in the Woods".
About 5 years ago,
an 18-year-old boy's parents threw him out of his house.
He moved into a neighbour's trailer.
Getting booted out again,
he decided to camp out in "the woods"
(a small, local nature preserve),
until he got enough money together to move some place else.
Well, some kids found his little hideout in the woods,
and the story of "The Man in the Woods" was born.
Magically, the homeless teenager turned into a grizzled,
insane old man who would sneak up on little kids walking through the forest,
drag them to his "cave" and do terrible things to them.
His victims were never heard from again!
Of course, no one ever knew the names of any of the victims,
but they were sure they read about it in some newspaper sometime.
Some neighbourhood parents encouraged their kid's belief in the "man".
It was a good way to keep them from playing in the trees.

You can imagine the stories that would result
if someone came across a person who was drinking someone else's blood,
especially in a society where the belief in demons and magic was common.
The existence of mortal vampires may have lead
to the various myths of supernaturalvampires.

I feel that serious medical research needs to be done,
so that a cure can be found for those who want one.
Finding a scientific explanation for their symptoms would also
help Mortal vampires that don't want to be cured
to be able to live without fear of persecution.

~Cybersylph~


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