vampires

[sexykitten]

what is vampires are they a alive or dead from stephanie

[Merlin]

Vampires is neither. They is fictional. Read 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. I think she was about 18 when she wrote that. Read the Anne Rice novels. They is made up.

In the stories, they die from garlic, crucifixes, wooden stakes in the heart etc, but I've never heard of one dying from stephanie - what's that?

[incuriam]

Vampires are classed as 'undead' which means they are technically dead, but still have the ability to do everyday things like: walk about, hold dinner parties, and use the internet in order to criticise other people's use of the English language.

[Merlin]

We would prefer it that mortals believe us to be fictional. I sometimes forget that you have not had the benefit of 957 years of education and tend, erroneously it seems, to speak in what I perceive to be your modern idioms and vernacular. I fear this stephanie - in what form cometh a cute stephanie?

[tartanwiz]

In European folklore, vampires are 'undead'. They need to to feast on the blood of the living to sustain themthelves, and in this way can stay alive indefinitely. Incidentally, merlin, Bram Stoker was a man. An Irishman to be precise.

[tigga]

Well said incuriam !

[Wraith]

I think Merlin may be thinking of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

 

Vampires are neither alive or dead, they are in a state between the two. (Un-dead)

[Ewood27]

There was a jet fighter just after WW2 called the de Havilland Vampire.  I flew them.  The tail was carried on two booms, so there wasn't much in the middle bit except the engine and the pilot.  The engine spent all its time trying to catch the pilot up, and was only prevented from doing so by the fuel tank.

 

Just thought you'd like to know.

[glasgowguy]

the question is poorly worded and grammatically incorrect  , it should read what are vampires , not what is u twit...go back to school and learn about pro-nouns and verbs...u ****

[Numbers]

Pro-nouns?

Are they related to amateur nouns then?

[raindog]

There was quite an interesting piece, I think in New Scientist, relating to the possible origins of the vampire legend.  Apparently in the 15th century there was a really bad spate/epidemic (although not in the true sense) of rabies.  Hydrophobia meant: no running water crossing; fear of sunlight, as extreme sensitivity to light is another of the symptoms; and excessively bleeding gums, which could lead people to believe that you drank blood.  Interesting possibility.

[Merlin]

I must confess to being a little befuddled as I recover from my last intake of stake and garlic. It does irk one to see poor grammar (not big bad wolf, though, he likes a poor gramma) other than as typos, for example.

To find out more, read Anne Rice's "Interview With the Vampire" and a couple of sequels. Not quite as goth as that woman Stoker's yarn, but much more informative. And I know that bloke Shelley wrote Wells's "The Invisible Man".

 

[Kay]

Oddly enough I watched a documentry earlier about "Vlaad The Impaler" and how Bram Stoker wrote about him.Bram was a drinker of human blood! Dracula was actually Vlaad Dracol he changed the O to U and added an A.

[FKNelectro]

Vampires are the un-dead. They are quite close to zombies, but they are more intelligent, have more personality, and drink blood instead of eating flesh.