Vampire believed.

Vampire believed.
Fears of vampires led them invented all of his own weakness and to calm her a thousand ways to protect yourself, and that the most outrageous - Taking a pseudo-vampires, most ordinary people, for the present, lowered the real physical and mental ability to real vampires, likened them to a certain wild bloodthirsty zombies - bloodsuckers, grunting in their graves ...
Belief in vampires existed for all humanity in all corners of the world. Everywhere knew about walking dead, those who drink the blood of living people. The image of vampires from the old beliefs can not be ascribed to any one particular defined. In different places had their own ways of combating''undead''. Vampires different countries and regions have their peculiarities, their strengths and weaknesses. Overall it was just that they were rebels from the dead and in support of its existence, forced to be harmful to living things, mainly to drink human blood.
In fact, the real vampire to be, but the religious prejudices of the ignorant, frightened men have created many images of the peculiar sort of wild monsters, and plague has played no small role in their formation. I wish to notice that the peaks of the epidemics of vampirism occurred just at the peaks of the epidemics of plague, when people were buried alive, thinking that they are dead ...
A general idea of vampires, what they created and saw people in ancient times. Still, many of the following can be considered for the truth ...

1. An overview of the VAMPIRE
According to legends, people become vampires after they are attacked another vampire. The bitten person is infected with vampirism,''infected''and immediately finds eternal life, but in order to maintain its existence, would be doomed to a permanent''thirst for blood.''
Montague Summers wrote:''This living corpse, has a body which is his own body. He is neither dead nor alive, but living in death. He - an anomaly; androgyne in the world of ghosts, monsters,''pariah among
Vampire destined to roam the earth, every night searching a new victim. It has many mysterious ways to help in this matter. The first - to change the shape of the body. Buried vampires do not need to always dig like moles, the yield on the surface. It can''leak''up through the earth and, once on the surface, take the old form ...
In its request vampire, only if it is old and very strong, may become a wolf, bat, cat, rat, moreover, he sees in the dark and wears the speed of light, the vampire has the superhuman strength and, optionally, can raise the gravestone. But on the eve of St. Andrew at the Moldovans may be kept from wearing your own tombstone ...
A vampire can climb any wall, crawl through the window and even penetrate into the room through the keyhole. If you do not take special measures, a man never can be completely safe from ghosts. And the most dangerous spot - the former home of a vampire. Agents of darkness tend to visit first and foremost members of his family: husbands - wives, wives - husbands. Young girls looking for ex-boyfriend. All vampires, irrespective of gender prefer young, healthy and attractive victims - their blood nourishing and healthful.
Vampires are able to subdue the various nocturnal creatures. Vampires can be harder to subdue and people to manage their thoughts for their own purposes. Dracula is not unknown, for example, kept a pack of wolves who defended his castle and discouraging unwanted visitors. He also had a hypnotic power over people, denying them the opportunity to resist and remember what happened ...
''Some vampires have a nasty habit of knocking at the door, sit at the table, and announce the death of someone or from being with him in the same room. We must never refuse a vampire in food: hungry and pissed because he can pounce on their children and immediately eat them ...'' - Roland Villeneuve. This confirms an excerpt from''Jewish''letters (letter 137), contained the House of Calmette.
Mortal enemy of vampires - the sun. To fall under the open sun for them - anyway, that enter into the blazing furnace. To the article, a powerful fire can also destroy the vampire. Thus, the religion, which, for whatever reasons forbid cremation, exposes its adherents risk vampirism. Vampires can leave his home only after dark, in the morning are obliged to return to their graves or crypts, where they have the whole day will be safe. But the moonlight, by contrast, gives the vampire effect, shows the way ... Assumed that vampires do not endure the smell garlic, do not tolerate the crucifixes and other holy relics. Vampires are deprived of their shadows, can not be reflected in the mirrors. Initially, as Rosette Dyubal wrote in his thorough''''Psychoanalysis Devil, demons, ghosts, ghosts and witches were Shadow, evil and vengeful spirits, and it is on this basis can be discerned. In many parts of Russia was considered as that of the devil himself is no shadow ... Vampires can not cross flowing water can not come to a new residence without their invitation to go there ...
Kind of a vampire, writes Montague Summers, repulsive: waking he skinny and hairy, and when nasosetsya becomes so fat that he almost bursts of satiety. Fresh blood oozing from his mouth, nose, and ears. His body is always icy, loose skin always keeps deadly - pale phosphorescent hue, but his lips were red and sensual, and between them sparkle protruding sharp teeth. Nails, curved like claws a bird of prey, dirty, and ooze blood, and his monstrous evil-smelling breath circulate the smell of decay, rotting flesh. Finally, his hair was red, like Tithonus, of Cain and Judas Iskariotazh. In a word, nice description. It is suitable not only the European vampire, but all kinds of vampires.
The Chinese terrible claws, bloodshot eyes and swollen lips. They attack women and kill babies. Burmese and Japanese vampires devour the soul. Indian Vetal visits places of cremation, and looks for the body, which he could take over. In Tibetan''eaters of dead''and''masters''of cemeteries bloody eyes and green lips. In Asante vampires at night emit a phosphorescent light, and they roam the woods, just like their relatives in ancient Mexico, which are under the patronage of the god Tezcat and in the case takes the shape of a wolf.

3. How to recognize VAMPIRE who can become them
The first sign of vampirism was considered certainly incorrupt body for which the veins remain flexible, the second - the blood trickling from the body and a number of other features.
Grunting and sloshing sounds coming from the tomb pointed to a vampire in it. Vikings prestavali hear them once in accordance with their customs, were killed Ground nostrils and mouths of the dead. According to Michael Ranft and Phillip Reriusa, vampire chewing their own flesh or foul ground, and another is preparing to spread the plague in an abandoned world:''During the plague epidemics of the devil is betrayed awful games in the depths of the grave, then noticed that the lips of the dead, especially women and publish grunt like that, with some pigs consume feed, this grunting contagion spreads far and as soon as they hear a, plague begins to wreak havoc with a vengeance, it usually takes women one after another.''.
During epidemics of plague people seriously believed that it was the vampires were to blame for it and actively participated in digging the graves of all suspected for the destruction of these. ''So, we must distinguish between vampires, among other dead, if you do not want to dig all cemeteries, both in the XVIII century''- Roland Villeneuve. Home Calmette tells flawless Hungarian method for recognizing a vampire, not previously mentioned in any manual:
''It is necessary to choose a boy of that age, that he did not know yet carnal acts, in other words - a virgin. He should be put on the naked intact horse, never covered the mare, and, moreover, a black suit, spotless, take a horse to the cemetery and hold over all the graves, where the horse refuses to go, as if his or whipped, is a vampire, and when open a tomb, a corpse in it will be smooth and fresh, as if sleeping in a peaceful and serene sleeping man. We must cut through his throat with a spade, and pour out bright red blood, and in large numbers, as if slaughtered quite a healthy person. After that the grave should be asleep, and then you can count on the fact that evil will intersect, and all affected him little by little - gradually return to power, as happens to people recovering from a long debilitating illness.''
We can also produce a graveyard of white stud colt that has never stumbled. It is believed that the horse step over all the graves, except for''evil''. If a dead body looks healthy and decayed - she is a vampire. If he had just quenched your thirst, then, according to experts, his body was swollen like a leech, but the coffin was splattered with blood.
During the heyday of''vampire epidemic''in the XVIII century, which went from Eastern Europe, the church tamed his followers to foul ceremony inspection of tombs and graves suspicious. Superstition in those years was so strong that it deprives people of reason. In Slavic countries believed that the potential vampires can be evil and cruel people, or dealing with black magic, as well as suicide, perjurers, curse their parents, the corpses of the dead in sin. The same list includes sinners, excommunicated. More suspected red-born''shirt''babies, born on Christmas and in general all born under unusual circumstances or with certain physical defects, such as cleft lip, deformity skull or extremities. In Greece, where people mostly dark eyes, those with blue eyes, were considered vampires. According to Romanian legend, illegitimate or unbaptized children, witches, wizards and seventh sons of seventh sons are doomed to become vampires. In Greece, Sicily and caught on the opinion of vampires, whose murder was not avenged: anyone who died a violent death, he could get out of the grave a vampire, and justice. In some villages, every one who refused to eat garlic, fell under suspicion of vampirism.
The old belief, widespread from Romania to China, says: if in a coffin, not yet buried, a cat will jump (or any other animal), the corpse will turn into a vampire.

3. Ways to protect against vampires
To protect their children the ancient Egyptians used magic spells. With their help, they can assign the identity of the victorious deity, lure the enemy and destroy its charm. In the more immediate time we were necklaces of garlic flowers, horses and horseshoes all kinds of amulets. To the dead man did not become a vampire, he was placed under the tongue a piece of parchment with written on it excerpted text of the Gospel of Luke. The most popular use of the crucifix branches of hawthorn, blackthorn and juniper. The same was brought knives stuck into the ground, under which''rested''alleged vampires, fumigate the grave and gray smoke from the lemon tree. Mazal door with tar, sprinkled on the floor salt and pepper and scattered prickles on the floor bedrooms. It was assumed that vampires love to take it and do not transgress your bloody dinner, until one counts all the scattered items, and meanwhile the morning comes and he will burn in the first rays of the sun. There is a dispute on account of whether vampires are afraid of crosses or not. It is hard to imagine a vampire - Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, which would frighten view crucifixion. But, according to Morey, the matter is not religion, but in the form of a cross, which influences positively on the human aura, and thereby protects it from external interference and negative impacts (see''Shadow of the Vampire''). So the cross could be left in the current attribute against the vampires, although it is not too strong and weapons.
Ancient Greeks buried their dead with obols (Greek coin) in the mouth. She would not let if fall through the mouth evil spirits. And in the XIX century Greeks similarly inhibit the penetration vrikolaks, fixing to face the dead wax cross.
Hungarians and Romanians were burying their dead with sickles at the neck: if the body wants to rise from the grave, he srezhet his neck. Some of the most zealous adding more and sickle from the heart, especially for those individuals who in life were not married and therefore at risk of becoming a strigoev, ie vampires. The Finns, for example, tied his hands and feet dead or stuck pins in the grave, to spur the body to the ground.
In Eastern Europe, hung out the windows and doors of the branches of buckthorn and hawthorn - the latter considered a shrub, which was decorated with a crown of Jesus - the vampire run into their spines, and go further.
People were sleeping, putting pillows under sharp objects, it goes so far that fear of nocturnal visits, spreading human excrement on their clothes and even put on his chest.
Many thought that the antidote against the vampires can serve as a charm dough, where it is mixed - as was done in Russia - the flour with the blood flowed from the body of a vampire. And the bread, when he ate, according to the Mercure Galant, - protecting them from harassment,''Specter, who never returned.'' Other preferred, as was made in Poland, moisten a handkerchief in the blood from the corpse and drink it all the relatives,''so as not to feel any pain''(House Calmette). Mannhardt wrote:''In Prussia, the people who become ill after being bitten by a vampire will recover when they were in the drink mixed with a bit of rotting blood.''Elsewhere, ate a little earth from the grave brukolaka or rubbed his chest with blood.
Widely used is a way to once again take a vampire, not allow him to leave the grave. As the coffin was placed a bit of land from the doorway to a vampire believed that he did not budge. Just put in the coffin of millet in the hope that the vampire will count the seeds, or chains, so it year after year uncouple links.
Many African tribes retain died with him, rather to look after them, than out of concern for them. The fear of their return makes lock spirits threatening them with a spear or a club, persuaded or beg to leave the place where they used to come and be.

4. DESTRUCTION OF VAMPIRE
In Eastern Europe were opened in the old grave of a suspect in vampirism, stuffed it with straw, pierced body with a stake and then burned. Often separated from the corpse's head, using a shovel gravedigger. Head is then placed at the feet of the deceased, or near the pelvis and the reliability screened from the rest of the body of earth roller. Bulgaria and Serbia were placed near the umbilicus branches of hawthorn and shaves all body except the head. In addition, the soles of their feet were cut and put the nail behind the head.
In the dead man's head, which could prove to be a vampire, hammered nail or knitting-needle stuck in order to destroy (or drive), a dark soul, nesting there. It was assumed that the soul is just in my head. To the article, and Diack and the Indians Hivaros resorted to this method now. With the dark soul they say, excommunicated. Just to clear the body of a dark soul, a corpse beheaded silver hatchet (if there was no silver, then went down and the most usual ...). The body was buried in unhallowed ground, far from the cemetery.
The traditional and most effective was regarded as well-known quantity to us. The most important thing - this is one blow manages to pierce the heart of a vampire in the daytime, when it is most defenseless. This should be done skillfully, or with a second blow, he once again come to life.
Even after killing the vampire, it was necessary to cut off his limbs and buried at a crossroads. In ancient times, a simple quartering not treated. Bone vampires cooked in huge pots, until they begin to melt, to kill the infection, which they could distribute, and wash them. To the article, saying''there and wash up bones.'' A powerful weapon can be considered a fire. But there were instances when a vampire burned to ashes, and he is again, and drank blood.
According to superstition, silver and other precious metals were considered divine and the vampire could not touch them. In more recent times begun to use silver bullets. Of course, why not use gold: too expensive. Find the right tomb, housing the servants of darkness, to shoot straight into a holy bullet or bind the body in the coffin of special units ...