What or who are vampires?
Pale white skin, blood smelling breath, and red eyes are the most recognized image of a vampire worldwide.
Vampire myths and legends go back thousands of years and according to speculation by literary historian Brian Frost that the "belief in vampires and bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself,"
The modern concept of a vampire retains many of the original traits from the East European stories. For instance, vampire drink blood, prey on humans, only come out at night, and rising from the dead. Other aspects of the Vampire, such as Goth type clothing, cloaks, turning in to bats or wolf are much newer innovations. Some features of vampire based on the old myths are gone, such as seeds over the vampire in order to keep them counting all night, rather than preying on human blood.
The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori. The story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel
Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction.
For more recent, vampire not only sign of horror but can be romantic lover.
Twilight, a series of four vampire-based fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. While screenplay for Twilight was written by Melissa Rosenberg and has been adapted into a film by Summit Entertainment. It charts a period in the life of Isabella Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The four series are Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Down.
Indeed, in year 1998, there was a drama series about love between vampire/zombie and human, My Date with a Vampire. Since that, vampire and zombie become cute and lovely despite horror and killer image in Asian Chinese as well.
Nevertheless, it is really happened that the body of death can't decay underground. According to Chinese Feng Shui, this will cause disaster or curse to the family and the whole generation. From the scientific point of view, the corpse can't decay even after few years is because that the pH of soil is highly unbalanced and not suitable for organic growth. Therefore it will not breed ants, worms or bacteria. The corpse buried even after a century, the muscles, hair and nails still can be well preserved. Sometimes the body hair, nails also may looks like continue to grow, but actually is because of the body's muscle contraction after death which lead to the hidden part of nail and hair under skin been exposed.
This un-degradable corpse has been reported in local news paper too. Even it happened in family of my friend. Three cousin brothers of my friend's family died at very young age for continuously three years. So, they felt something wrong and seeking help of the Feng Shui Master. Then finally they found out that it was something wrong with her grandfather's mother's graveyard. Her ancient granny had been passed away for over 20 years but when they dig out the coffin its still shinny new and even the red cloth tide on the coffin is still bloody red color, no dirt at all!
The Feng Shui Master told them that the body was still completely preserved, but they dare not open the coffin to see their granny. So, after buried at new place and console the spirit properly, perhaps her ancient granny is resting in peace now.
Will these corpse truly can transit into vampire with conscious mind? hopefully not.
