Abilities and characteristics of vampires.

Abilities and characteristics of vampires.

Causing the decline and poor harvests.

According to Hungarian tradition, the vampire could spoil harvests crops. Hungarians employed special people, talbos (telbos) and kresnik (kresnik), whose sole purpose was to protect the crops from the vampires. Kresniki were the best European group of fighters vampires.

Control animals.

Vampires can subdue and control wild animals. Pets tend to have a wild terror of vampires, and are looking for protection from the owners.

Eternal life.

As mentioned vampire undead. Died once, while still a mortal, this creature can not die naturally. He was not worried about the disease, he can not die from an injury, but he is not invincible. Cause of his death will be considered below.

Flight.

Vampires can fly, both in its physical form, and taking the form of bats, birds and insects.

Hypnosis.

Undead have the ability to hypnosis, and are able to control man. They can get it to obey and fulfill their every desire. However, there is one thing but to hypnotize human, vampire and victim have to look into each other's eyes. That is why, ever, ever, do not have to face the vampire, so he did not.

Seepage.

Ability to penetrate the vampire through the cracks or seep into the ground. That is how he leaves his coffin, after the first awakening.

Moving on the vertical walls.

Vampires are able to climb a vertical surface or hang from the ceiling. They move like a spider on the walls of buildings, closer to the window to get into the bedroom to its prey.

Feelings.

Ordinary human feelings (such as touch, smell, hearing, etc.) have a much more acute than that of humans. In addition they have the ability to see in the dark, to feel the presence of others and are able to perceive the vibrations of air and material things.

Speed.

The vampire is able to move with great speed. His body was well tolerated any physical activity, and it can perform many complex movements simultaneously. For them, it is so natural that being around people and oblivious, they can give you.

Force.

The strength of the vampire is several times the average human. Blood, which consumes a vampire, contributes to its strength. As time goes on, and it absorbs the blood of more people, the vampire becomes stronger, so old vampire stronger younger.

Transformation.

One of the best protective equipment vampires is to take a different form. Most often it is a form of a bat or a huge wolf, but it can take other forms. It could be birds, rats, mice, dogs and even a flea. Conversion to give the vampire bat flying. Today, vampires are associated primarily with the bat. The transformation into a wolf has many contradictions. According to the legends of tribes in Latin America, each vampire must spend some time in the guise of a wolf. However, in Slavic folklore wolf, the most cruel enemy of vampires. Kosovo Roma, it is believed that vampires are doomed to wander the earth, before the meeting with the wolf, which burst them.
Vampire destined to roam the earth, every night trying to find a new victim to satisfy excruciating thirst. It is known that they had a lot of mysterious powers, to help in this matter.

The first of these should be called the ability to change the shape of the body. Buried vampire did not have to every time he left the grave, dig like a mole, the yield on the surface in six-foot thick soil. It was believed that it can seep up through the ground and, once on the surface, to the previous form. At will could become a vampire wolf, bat, cat, rat, and even mist. In this or that form he could climb any wall, crawl through any window and even penetrate through the keyhole. If no special precautions, no one place could not be in complete safety.

And there was no place more dangerous than your own home. Vampires tended to visit especially their family members: husbands - wives, and wives - husbands. Young women looking for their ex-husbands. All, without exception, both men and women preferred the young, healthy and attractive victims. Theoretically, the blood was young nutritious and wholesome.

Vampires could subjugate various nocturnal creatures for their own will. So Dracula had a pack of wolves to protect the castle and they scare away intruders. In addition, he could hypnotize people, denying them to resist and remember what happened to them.

Outside view of the European vampire is more of the features by which it can be distinguished from the normal body, one has only to open the grave of suspected vampire. The vampire has a healthy appearance and ruddy skin, he is often plump, his regrown hair and nails and everything else he is not decomposed.

The most common ways to kill a vampire - is driving a wooden stake through his heart, behead and completely incinerate the body. Not to give to someone who could become a vampire to rise from the grave, the body is buried upside down, cut the tendons at the knees or put poppy seeds on the burial ground alleged vampire to get it to count them all night. Chinese stories about vampires also state that if a vampire comes across on his way to a sack of rice, s / he will count all the grains. Such myths are recorded and the Indian Peninsula. South American tales of witches and other forms of evil or bad spirits and beings have the same tendency.

Items that protect against vampires (as well as other supernatural beings) were garlic (more typical European legends), sunlight, stalk wild rose, hawthorn and all things sacred (holy water, crucifixes, rosaries, the Star of David, etc . etc.), as well as aloe hanging behind the door or near it, according to the South American superstition. In Eastern legends of vampires often defended the sacred things such as printing Shinto. Sometimes, it is believed that vampires can change shape, but are not limited common stereotype of a bat from movies and cartoons. Vampires can turn into wolves, rats, moths, spiders, and many others. European legends of vampires cast no shadow and have no reflection. Perhaps this is due to the lack of soul in a vampire. It is believed that a vampire can not enter a house unless invited. In the Christian tradition, vampires can not enter a church or other sacred place, as they are the servants of the devil.