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The disease you're thinking of is Porphyria. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990507.html
Chrestomanci said:I have to write a essay paper thing that is supposed to convince people that vampires exist...I have most of what I need but I was wondering if anyone could help me get a little more...caz im kinda stuck...any help would be appreciated...thanks
Mr. R.I.N.G. said:Also, maybe look up some famous historical vampires like the Highgate Vampire or the earlier one (Grange something or another). While somewhat disputed, both are interesting cases.
Caroline said:The German couple were in issue 157, I can't be bothered to trawl through my back issues to find the Anglesey incident.
I hope you took a few boxes of your native earth with you.Snowman X said:Things like this remind me why I left N.Wales actually. :eek!!!!:
ZPumpkinEscobar said:Plus, as an added bonus, it REALLY happened!
Chrestomanci said:I have to write a essay paper thing that is supposed to convince people that vampires exist...I have most of what I need but I was wondering if anyone could help me get a little more...caz im kinda stuck...any help would be appreciated...thanks
[/B]barbara green said:Where did the first vampire come from to set it all off ?
But I am nore interested in the vampiric undead in the traditional sense and how their existence can be explained and/or given a hypothesis as to how they might actually be proved to exist--why,how,where,etc,
Barbara
barbara green said:I am trying to pin down the situation here by asking for a c ritical appraisal of the vampire---
Are traditional vampires for real--if so then this validates the position of those who "hunt them"
So can anytone give me any answers. So far the supernatural vampire seems, as Ethelred has said, to have been the creation of Dracula type films based on rather nasty European folklore,
Barbara
JerryB said:However, fire, decapitation or reburial at a crossroads whilst fixed into the earth by one or more stakes effectively destroys the vampire.