Vampires A Coyote Pendragon report 2007c

What are vampires really? It has been recorded in ancient lore as a parasite that inhabits a corpse reanimated by dark spirits that have to encarnalize blood in the need of life force to live.
I will go into them as I have encountered them in lore and what I have found else wise.

In recent years I have had a encounter with one that had left quite a wound upon my soul. I do not feel it was Psionic nor Sang. I researched deeply and found a surface that has walls.

I cannot prove my statement beyond the witnesses that I had.  I did the eye of what one would call darkness that called into the depth of my nature that I learned under the flesh that I have. I found something in that we all desire but should not join into for a promise means nothing. I did not see the beauty of fiction but the wounds of yesterday and a step to far that has no return from that abyss. I will never look at the world the same way. I grow weary of knowing that things that we cannot phantom wait for us. I have seen that horizon and worse things then death wait for us in fates that we cannot comprehend even in the worst of nightmares. I will partake of another time of the story. Instead I shall you what I have learned about them.

They span many cultures.

They are called Strigoi in some parts of the Slavic world it is Roman term for screech owl which also came to mean demon or magick practitioner. Not always a witch.
Many record them as a cross between demon and with that have returned from the grave. Many types of strigoi: strigoi vii are live magick practitioners who will become vampires after death. They can send out their soul at night to meet with others or with Strigoi mort who are dead vampires. The strigoi mort are the reanimated bodies which return to suck the blood of living creatures.

Around the world they have many names.
Africa Asabonsam, Obayifo

Albania: Shtriga

Arabia: Afrit

Australia: Yara-ma-yha-who

Bosnia: Lampir

Bulgaria: iaObur

China: Chiang-shih, Giang shi, Xiang shi

Czech Republic: Upir

France: Lamiai, Melusine

Germany: Blütsauger, Nachtzehrer

Greece: Barbarlakos, Borborlakos, Bourdoulakas, Brykilakas, Drakaena, Drakos, Empusa, Ghello, Lamia, Vrykolakas, Vrykolakes

Gypsy: Mullo

Hindu: Vetala

Hungary: Lidérc

India: Bhuta, Kali

Indonesia: Tanggal

Italy: Vampiri

Japan: Kappa, Tengu

Malaysia: Hantu or Hantu penanggalan, Languyar, Potianak

Mexico: Tlahuelpuchi Myanmar Tasei, Thaye

Peru: Canchus, Pumapmicuc

Philippines: Aswang or Aswang manananggal

Poland: Upiory

Romania: Strigoi

Russia: Eretik, Upir, Upyr, Uppyr

Sanskrit: Baital, Katakhanoso

Slavic Nosferatu, Vukodlak

Thailand: Krasyy

All over the world they have many names but we are mostly we will discuss the ones of eastren europe and
modern vampires in this myth. Many other books have been written on the subject this is just to give you a idea on vampires. There are many who claim to be this is to give you some background on there myths and what they are. At most when you go to pagan outing your chances are higher now in meeting on. Remember myth is just myth but the history should be remembered.

1. Slavic myth
The vampires of Eastern Europe may have broke off from Ideas of Further Eastern couturiers such as China and India seem to have the oldest idea on there Ideas of Demons type monsters that ate energy that took over a corpse or the head of a corpse after death.
Some of the same traits held true for Witches in myth.
You can be a vampire by birth made according to myth.
In Slavic myth you could be born a Vampire by being born on certain days,

1. Being born on the new moon at night

2. The first day of the year at midnight

3. Holy holidays or being conceived on one,

4. being born with a birth veil,

5. Being born tail, horns, extra nipple, or teeth

6. Odd birth marks in the shape of animals or pagan symbols

7. Born the seventh son of a seventh son and having a occult background

8. Mother did not eat enough salt during pregnancy "Salt is life"

9. Mother Locked eyes with a Vampire whilst pregnant and had a energy exchange

10. The mother had relations with a vampire and is the father.

In Slavic life one could be made a vampire after death by the following.

1. By being weaned to early.

2. Cruelty of the mother.

3. Not being Baptized or being Baptized on holy ground

4. Disrespecting the dead.

5. Received a curse for disrespecting a magick art

6. a curse for Working darker magick, necromancy, blood magick, witchcraft, or sorcery

7. Drinking the energy or blood of someone who works magick

8. A deal with death made on the death bed and got better

9. Committing Suicide and failed or did
10. Eating sheep killed by a wolf or any animal

11. Leading an immoral life, to any large crimes that involve BDSM or bloodshed

12. Speaking a mass while in a state of mortal sin
Slavic vampire myth after death

1. Dieing while having sex

2. Having any animal rest on you grave

3. Not having a horse jump over your grave

4. Death by murder or unfinished business that is dreadful

5. Having a loved one in the family sleepwalk or talk in there sleep

6. Spiting or defecating on the grave

7. Having sex on the grave

8. Passing a candle or flame over the grave or corpse

9. Having a shadow pass over the corpse or burial at night

10. Death by vampire the victim has to get there life force back to pass on but instead

11. becomes like the murderer.

12. Having strange winds blow upon the corpse

13. Not being given funeral services or improper services
That a vampire was at work in the Slavic world

1. Strange sickness in the village that befalls the women and children first

2. Death of farm animals or finding animals in the woods dead in strange manners

3. People dieing oddly and the bodies swelled up 3 times the size or shrunken OR disfigured in strange ways.

4. Victims talking mad and being more sick but no fever or history of mental illness.

5. Children talking to someone or something that does not exist

6. Bird calls at night that sound like words

7. More attacks by wolves or other animals then normal
How to know one was a vampire in Slavic myth

1. The corpse was dug up and hair and nails where still growing the corpse was not in a state of discompose.

2. The face had a healthy color on the corpse.

3. They refuse to cross bridges or go into sacred areas or place of suspected death

4. They would not eat salt

5. Seen more at night then the day

6. Would speak against other people who would do good deeds and curse often

7. Enchant or bring other people to there will

8. Vampires, along with witches, were believed to be most active on the Eve of St George's Day (April 22 Julian, May 4 Gregorian calendar), the night when all forms of evil were supposed to be abroad. St Georges Day is still celebrated in Europe.

9. Someone who would not eat garlic. While garlic would not hurt them they did not like the taste or smell of it. Sometimes it would be given out to eat. Those that would not eat it where thought vampires. Anything that smelled stronger then the grave would repel a vampire.

Blood drinking

It is said of the blood drinking type in interview by those who have said that they where of this type is they must ingest blood.

I have been told that it is a needed to obtain the energy from the blood. Some tell me weekly others say monthly.

I take not that with women they say more monthly and I wonder if there are connection with the blood lost of a woman's Period. In ancient society's When women where to have a period they where made to go to the menstrual hut or outside the town being it was said that women had supernatural powers at that time.

Most proclaimed vampires I have spoken to say it is a biological construct, to survive not of psychological value.

It has been known to happen in in evolution and may not be as odd as we think. One of Darwin's finches has a sub-population with an unusual habit. Instead of eating insects, it attacks other birds and drinks their blood as recorded in Bowman, R. I., and Billeb, S. L., Blood-Eating in a Galapagos Finch, The Living Bird, 4:29-44, 1965.
From a biology Idea it goes against human nature but not impossible there are species that have to have blood in there diet in order to live like the vampire bat.
About the vampire bat
Species: rotundus
ORDER: Chiroptera--Bats
SUBORDER: Microchiroptera--True Bats
SUPERFAMILY: Phyllostomoide
FAMILY: Phyllostomidae--New World leaf nosed bats
GENUS: Desmodontinae
Desmodus, Diaemus, Diphylla
Facts
1. Only 3 species out of the almost 1000 bat species, are vampire bats.

2. The three species of true vampire bats all reside in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

3. no larger than a small rodent, with an average weight of around one-ounce (28.35 grams), and an average body length of 2.75" with an 8" wingspan (19.44 centimeters).

4. Main food livestock and birds. Can kill livestock by many feeding on the same animal.

5. Before the people moved in they feed on animals that where in there habitat but after people there numbers grew being they had more to feed on thanks to the livestock.

6. They prefer to spend there whole life in darkness only moving at night and living in dark caves.

7. They hunt in small groups of 2 - 6, flying just above the ground.

8. They are most active around midnight.

9. They locate and recognize their hosts by smell, appearance, echolocation, radiated body heat, and breathing sounds.

10. They will walk upright to there prey and pounce up in the air on top of it being one of the few bats to ground hunt.

11. They will remember there prey feeding off the same animal night after night.

12. They rarely wake prey and the prey will not know even if the wound has been known to bleed up to 8 hours.

13. The same enzymes in vampire bat saliva that keep a victim's blood flowing may soon be used to fight heart disease in humans. The anticoagulants will effectively dissolve human blood clots, the major cause of heart attacks. anti-coagulant and gave it a name: Draculin

14. Takes about two hours for them to find the prey and about 30 Min's. to feed.

15. They ingest between 5 and 8 teaspoons of blood per night.

16. If have failed to obtain a meal, they will regurgitate part of their meal to help another.

17. The vampire bat has evolved to produce unique substances that allow it to digest blood, its major food source.

As we look at the vampire bat we can see it is far removed from a human vampire but on a idea not that different. If humans developed into a sub group such as Finch mentioned then it is possible. This would not give them supernatural powers nor longer life then other humans but instead be a brake off of evolution. It was thought the bats developed with something went missing from there habitat. As the population in the human world grows each day more and more species goes missing from the natural world and this could be a side effect of breeding of several generations or maybe a side effect of accidental inbreeding.
In normal humans blood cannot be digested through the human stomach and broken down into energy the body uses to maintain itself of protein being blood is a by product of eating. This is a medical fact.

Like the bats we read about some humans may be able to drink blood can break it down into food by developing substances like the bats. We would not fully know what to look for being it would be rare.
They would not be related to Porphyria.
Porphyria is a disease and what I am talking about is a adaptation. Many today who claim to be vampires today claim this out of fad. I wish they stop and learn what it is. Some seem to have romantic ideas about it.

According to the American Porphyria foundation
"Porphyria is not a single disease but a group of at least eight disorders that differ considerably from each other. A common feature in all porphyrias is the accumulation in the body of "porphyrins" or "porphyrin precursors." Although these are normal body chemicals, they normally do not accumulate. Precisely which of these chemicals builds up depends upon the type of porphyria.
The clinical manifestations of the different types of porphyria are not the same. Forms of treatment also depend on the type of porphyria. Therefore, it is difficult to make general statements that apply to all these disorders.
The symptoms arise mostly from effects on the nervous system or the skin. Effects on the nervous system occur in the acute porphyrias. Proper diagnosis is often delayed because the symptoms are nonspecific. Skin manifestations can include burning, blistering, and scarring of sun-exposed areas.
The terms "porphyrin" and "porphyria" are derived from the Greek word "porphyrus" meaning purple. Urine from some porphyria patients may be reddish in color due to the presence of excess porphyrins and related substances in the urine, and the urine may darken after exposure to light."
"Abnormal eating attitudes and behaviors that may contribute to attacks of porphyria."
The above is where we get the idea they drink blood.
Mostly this disease is confused with "Anemia."
Anemia
Anemia is a lower than normal number of red blood cells (erythrocytes) in the blood, usually measured by a decrease in the amount of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the red pigment in red blood cells that transports oxygen.
Can lead to non food cravings such as dirt, ice, hair, and even blood.

3rd disease we don't know of?
I will call it "Penadum"
It is thought And think “if such a thing” that Blood drinking vampires might carry a undocumented disease. This would show up in puberty being it would be connected to estrogen or testosterone would be needed. Perhaps this is why it could be transferred though the blood.
 It only harms the host if the host does not feed. In exchange the Vampire would get Adrenaline which would speak of strength and behavior in a controlled way. When one takes PCP they have no control but like any poison if taken in small doses the body can adapt. At most none of this is proving and is theory but explains supernatural ability. Of course feeding would have to be limited to human blood in drinking being animal blood would not be adaptive to be redistributed though the system. The diet oddly would not be in favor steak nor liver or non human iron rich foods. This disease would not show up for generations at a time and would stay dormant into they system until two blood types would set it off in chain reaction. In theory the patient would have mood disorders, be more likely to colds and flu's and blood disorders depending. Would be 3 times more likely to get a blood disorder because of feeding. Could produce healthy normal children. Could be one in every 3 to 4 generations to produce disorder. May not be a disorder it could be a natural cycle as well.
Feeding methods depend.
Those that are adaptive tell me they do drink animal blood after sterilizing it as part of there natural diet.
Others tell me they can't digest it at all but do fine with human blood which leads me to believe it is somehow redistributed into there blood stream as impossible as it sounds. I would say there are many types of vampires that drink blood that work differently by side by side evolution.
Mostly I will stay on the subject of Vampires feeding on humans being the other is self explanatory.
Vampires need to know who they are feeding from. Some vampires tell you they don't care if someone else has a blood disease and I find this to be ignorant. Most disease can even be spread to vampires Aids would be example being it knows no species anyone who tells you else wise just has not encountered it yet. Aids can take up to 7 years to show up and there is a new strain that moves even faster now.

Psionic or Psychic Vampire
This type I would not classify as the same type as one that partakes of blood.
Many use the energy and feed from humans in a crowd or upon a emotion yet some may not be vampires.
I have came across those that feed upon energy left behind or the energy of places or even music or ritual. Some have no desire to feed on people at all. The emotional energy could be disgusting to some the people may put out that leads to others feeding upon other things. It is said by some that are created when a person is feed upon and they try and replace there energy.
I feel they can be quite different and I will go into depth another day.