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Shreyashi answered on
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Title: Superstition, Religion and Sexuality
Chosen Essay: Option 2
Contents
Introduction 3
Vampires in Folklores 3
The Twilight 4
The Wicked 5
Strengths of the Vampires 6
Weaknesses of the Vampires 7
Representation of the Vampires 7
Conclusion 8
Works Cited 10
Introduction
Vampires, as mentioned by Radford, are fantasy creatures, created by various folklores, specially belonging to the ho
or genre. Vampires are known to feed on human blood. Since human beings started the fantasy genre, the creature, vampires appeared on many. People usually love the ho
or genre because the thrill that it provides.
The suspense stimulates the audience. This is what post people look for in a fantasy genre. Now, most people do not really believe in ghosts. Nevertheless, the possibility of feeling the presence of a creature that is neither something, which they do not believe in, that is, ghosts, nor complete human beings, make it seem real. Vampires actually originated in the Greek mythology.
From the Greek mythology, it was spread into different parts of the world. In the present days, we have hundreds and thousands of videos, movies, T.V shows on vampires to watch every day. Vampires are mostly presented in the na
atives as villains or as creatures that
ing destruction mostly, although there as some texts, which make us feel sympathetic even for those creatures. It is called the catharsis.
Catharsis makes us feel bad because we see the protagonist suffer for their actions and then regret it. However, still, they suffer the most and pay for every bit of their actions. We then end up feeling so
y for the villain. Although, to accomplish that successfully, one must be a very good writer otherwise it will not be possible to induce a sense of sympathy in the hearts of one’s readers, at all.
Vampires in Folklores
Every culture in the world has a unique bogeyman. To make people do some work or even to make children sleep early or to be obedient, people use the sense of hear in other people. However, a criterion, which is very common, is the element of fear to feed on flesh and blood of the human beings in order to kill. Humans love themselves and they have deep concern for their lives. Fear makes them do most of the things. Hence, this idea of inducing fear to make people do things was what folklore was used for most of the time in history.
Although the term vampire is not as old as the na
atives, the creature has been described many a times in the na
atives in history but the term vampire is relatively new and the vampire sub-genre has gained a lot of attention and has a huge fan base in the recent times. Many of the major ancient history literature ca
y vampiric features. For instance, in Homer's tale, the undead are too insubstantial to be heard by the living and cannot communicate with them without drinking blood first. In addition, vampire traditions appear among diaspora Jews in Central Europe, in particular the medieval interpretation of Lilith.
There are also legends about Estries, female vampires of Jewish folklore that were believed to prey on He
ew citizens. From Spain to Africa and from Asia to America, every county, every culture and every religion had creatures, which live on the flesh and blood of normal human beings, in their stories that we call vampires in the present day. All the cultures and religions combined; there must be at least a hundred vampires, which we can know about by reading historical texts.
The Twilight
Between the year 2010 and 2018, a number of vampiric movies came out. Some own the hearts of the masses while some went unnoticed. Some even found academic recognition. The na
atives mostly...