![]() ![]() Among the proposed Proto-Slavic forms are * ǫpyrь and * ǫpirь. The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir), Bosnian: вампир ( vampir), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr), Russian упырь ( upyr'), Belarusian упыр ( upyr), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir') (many of these languages have also borrowed forms such as "vampir/wampir" subsequently from the West these are distinct from the original local words for the creature). The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian вампир ( vampir). The term "vampire" is the earliest recorded in English, Latin and French and they refer to vampirism in Russia, Poland and North Macedonia. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, television shows, and video games. Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of " The Vampyre" by the English writer John Polidori the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. Porphyria was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures (such as the chupacabra) still persists in some cultures. Local variants in Southeastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. Vampiric entities have been recorded in cultures around the world the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in Southeastern and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive. ![]() A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. ![]()
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