There are known to be two different types of vampirism: Sanguine Vampirism and psychic Vampirism.
Sanguine Vampires are vampires that feeds off blood.
Psychic Vampires are vampires that feeds off energy.
This simply means, for vampires, they cannot live off their own energy and they need to use others energy's to have life.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Where did the vampire myth actually start?
(**FYI: Dracula was not the first incident where Vampires came around**)
In the year 1047 the word "Upir" (which later becomes the word "vampire") Is first written in a document, referring to a Russian prince as "Upir Lichy" or Wicked Vampire.
But what about the name vampire? Where did that come from? That's harder to determine. We know that words like vampire were thick as bats in the Slavic languages of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian all had vampir, while Bulgarian also had vapir or vepir. There is also a variant beginning with u, as in Polish upiór, Russian upyr', Ukrainian uper or upyr. It is possible that this u-word came from Turkish uber, meaning "witch," and also possible that that u-word was the ancestor of vampire. And perhaps not. For our purposes, Serbo-Croatian is as good a candidate for the word's source as any other. Its word is vampir, the same form that made its way through such intermediate languages as Hungarian, German, and French to arrive in England by 1734. An English document of that date declares that "These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them." That about sums it up. **taken from the website http://www.answers.com/topic/vampire **
One of the most famous eighteenth-century Vampire cases was one which involved a man named Arnold (Paole) Paul (or Arnont Paule in the original documents). This outbreak is only known from Flückinger's(an Austrian military doctor) report about the second epidemic and its prehistory. According to the account of the Medveđa locals as retold there, Arnold Paole was a hajduk who had moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. He reportedly mentioned often that he had been plagued by a vampire at a location named Gossowa (perhaps Kosovo) but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. About 1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four persons complained that they had been plagued by him. These people died shortly after. Still ten days later villagers, advised by their hadnack (a military/administrative title) who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, to which he reacted by groaning and bleeding, and burned the body. They then disinterred Paole's four supposed victims and performed the same procedure, to prevent them from becoming vampires. **taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Paole#A_modern_scientific_explanation **
(There is also a modern scientific report as to why these things happened to Arnold's body on this website)
In the year 1047 the word "Upir" (which later becomes the word "vampire") Is first written in a document, referring to a Russian prince as "Upir Lichy" or Wicked Vampire.
But what about the name vampire? Where did that come from? That's harder to determine. We know that words like vampire were thick as bats in the Slavic languages of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian all had vampir, while Bulgarian also had vapir or vepir. There is also a variant beginning with u, as in Polish upiór, Russian upyr', Ukrainian uper or upyr. It is possible that this u-word came from Turkish uber, meaning "witch," and also possible that that u-word was the ancestor of vampire. And perhaps not. For our purposes, Serbo-Croatian is as good a candidate for the word's source as any other. Its word is vampir, the same form that made its way through such intermediate languages as Hungarian, German, and French to arrive in England by 1734. An English document of that date declares that "These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them." That about sums it up. **taken from the website http://www.answers.com/topic/vampire **
One of the most famous eighteenth-century Vampire cases was one which involved a man named Arnold (Paole) Paul (or Arnont Paule in the original documents). This outbreak is only known from Flückinger's(an Austrian military doctor) report about the second epidemic and its prehistory. According to the account of the Medveđa locals as retold there, Arnold Paole was a hajduk who had moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. He reportedly mentioned often that he had been plagued by a vampire at a location named Gossowa (perhaps Kosovo) but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. About 1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four persons complained that they had been plagued by him. These people died shortly after. Still ten days later villagers, advised by their hadnack (a military/administrative title) who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, to which he reacted by groaning and bleeding, and burned the body. They then disinterred Paole's four supposed victims and performed the same procedure, to prevent them from becoming vampires. **taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Paole#A_modern_scientific_explanation **
(There is also a modern scientific report as to why these things happened to Arnold's body on this website)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
J.R. Ward
J. R. Ward is an amazing writer. She lives in the south with her highly supportive husband and her beloved golden retrevier.I have always had problems finding books that hook my intrest and J.R. Ward's books not only hooked me but completley reeled me in. from reading the back of the first book I simply had to read it. And by the middle of "Dark Lover" i had already fallen in love with the characters and each book that goes on I have realized that i know a person just like every character in these books, including myself.
J.R. Ward went to and graduated from law school, and then began working in health care in boston and spent many years as cheif of staff for one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation.
To know more about this extrodonary author and her books you can visit her and the brotherhood on their wesite: http://www.jrward.com/
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
What why?...What how?...
Anger his only companion,
terror his only passion.
With unquenchable fury,
and sinsieter deeds,
his brothers are his jury,
to them himself concedes.
yet the past,
he relives with grief.
Love with in his soul,
is nonexsistent.
yet she shows she
is persistent.
the whys and the hows he does not know.
a face of scaring and a body of brutality,
yet now he's falling to deep,
to love him would be a fatality.
what is this a dream or his own sick reality?
By: April Gorski
*Inspired by Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
terror his only passion.
With unquenchable fury,
and sinsieter deeds,
his brothers are his jury,
to them himself concedes.
yet the past,
he relives with grief.
Love with in his soul,
is nonexsistent.
yet she shows she
is persistent.
the whys and the hows he does not know.
a face of scaring and a body of brutality,
yet now he's falling to deep,
to love him would be a fatality.
what is this a dream or his own sick reality?
By: April Gorski
*Inspired by Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
Sunday, December 14, 2008
"Lover Awakened" (book 3 in BDB series)
This is the story of how love can bring a soul back from the brink of insanity and how it can awaken the lover with in.
"Lover Awakened" is the third book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It tells the story of Zadist and Bella. In the first two books you get a small glimpse at Zadist (and Bella), and mostly all you know about him is his aggressive attitude and his violence toward humans and vampires alike. Zadist's story is one of pain and betrayal and learning that life isn't just simply that. For the first hundred years, post transition, he was a blood slave to his mistress, Catronia, in 1802. What was done to him, in him, on him was unthinkable and grotesque. (Refer to page 36 for the Beginning of his story in "Lover Awakened") But then he meets Bella and everything changes. At first he resents her persistence but then...well...you'll just have to read it to find out the rest.
BOOK REVIEW
"Lover Awakened" by J.R. Ward is by far the best in the series. To me, when i first heard of Zadist in the first two books I didn't understand why he was filled with so much hatred but then, after reading this book I fell in love with him. Beneath the scars and the blood slave bands he is a tortured soul. This book touched me because of the severity of his past and not just because I am a girl, it really goes to show that love can heal a soul that is not only broken but destroyed.
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