Are vampires real?

Throughout almost every vampire tale or legend you here, whether fictitious or genuine the vampire fangs are a common spotlight feature. These particular teeth are referred to as ‘fangs’ even on human teeth but with a vampire these particular teeth are more pronounced and elongated.

Real vampires say their fangs are longer naturally, or become longer when it comes time to feed. Many vampires however resort to prosthetic fangs. Available in a pretty wide variety some which clip to your teeth while other brands use a temporary glue to fix them in place.

As a more permanent solution, some vampires purchase a teeth sharpening service and have their original fangs purposefully sharpened. This can be a costly option but in the long term it saves you from continually buying and affixing synthetic fangs.

While having fangs is not an essential part to being a vampire, it is considered preferable. Even a synthetic fang gives a better feeling of community and commitment within a group or coven.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions ‘Do real vampires celebrate Christmas?’ ‘Can Vampires celebrate Christmas?’ ‘Are vampires real?’

Ok so we get that last one a lot, but the first two tend to spring up this time of year. Now the concept of religion and vampires can be a sticky subject which I’m going to sidestep for the moment but people celebrate Christmas in many different ways now. It is, of course, a religious holiday but it’s been widely accepted as western culture. Many people celebrate it as a day of peace, happiness and an excuse to get together with the family under one roof.

No one person can speak for all vampires in the world. I’m sure some of them do, in fact, celebrate Christmas. Whether you can do so religiously, is really a question between you and your beliefs but there is certainly nothing stopping you from decorating a tree.

Magick and Real Vampires

We couldn’t really answer the question are vampires real without looking at the association between vampires and Magick (the ick used to distinguish it from the view of magic as parlour tricks in Vegas Casinos). If you’re not sure what I mean by ‘Magick’ then do a quick Google search and you’ll get the idea.

When it comes to vampires and Magick, it’s not a black and white issue. Many real vampires do not believe in or practice Magick. To others it’s a pivotal part of life.
Psychic vampires often study energy work magick to understand psychic energies and improve their feeding ability. Vampires highly practiced and versed in energy magick are referred to as a ‘vampire magician’ .

Vampire energy magic usually splits into separate categories. The main vampiric studies focus on absorbing and preserving energy. Others focus on protection and shielding while others focus on affecting surroundings and events.

Magick itself is a very deserve subject so in future articles we will be taking a look at vampire specific spells and magickal understanding.

We’re slowly trying to work our way through the backlog of messages and requests on the site, one thing we’re seeing a lot of is requests about ‘the vampire kiss’. They seem to vary a lot from ‘where can I get one’ (my favourite answer from one of the guys who write with me was ‘ebay’) to what it’s all about.

I’ll tell you what this ‘vampire kiss’ is about. It’s about fiction. If a vampire bites a humans neck you’re going to get one thing and one thing alone – a hicky. Sorry to burst that bubble but it’s just not going to happen.

The vampire kiss idea is a work of fiction and it’s just taken as red that it’s fact because ‘hollywood said so’. If this is the kind of thing you’re looking for then I’d suggest you take a look over the articles on are vampires real and try to get a better understanding of what’s real and what’s not.

We’ve had an article which touched upon the idea of a psychic vampire moving through large crowds feeding on the psychic energy of the real people around them and the honest truth is many real vampires who feed on psychic energy are likely to do this.

Well apparently the mention worried someone since I received an email asking how they could spot a psychic vampire in a crowd so they could avoid it and the honest genuine answer is – you cant. They could be anyone at anytime and you wouldn’t notice but I think, perhaps, you misunderstood the concept of why a psychic vampire feeds from crowds. Normally I would just reply to the email but just in case this worried anyone else I thought I’d share the response openly.

When a real vampire feeds on the psychic vampire of one person that person can feel tired and sluggish for a time. In order to avoid causing this to anyone a psychic vampire could opt to get their psychic energy through crowds taking a slight unnoticeable amount from each person. You’d never notice and it isn’t going to do you any harm. If you think about it this way, they could leave one person feeling tired for a while or they could take a negligible amount from the 500 people that walk past them on their way to work. Do you think any of those people can tell or are going yo feel any difference?

If, for whatever reason, the idea still makes you uncomfortable than i suggest you take a look at the article on are vampires real about psychics vampire protection. But that’s only if you feel it’s something you have to do.

Over the entire article selection of are vampires real we’ve looked at a couple of different types of vampires and were often asked which are real vampires. From the sanguine and psychic to the lifestyle and the ‘posers’ to a certain degree they are all real vampires.

The truth is when you ask whether vampires are real you need to understand what you are actually asking. Real vampires exist in many different forms. Some wear the clothing and fangs (either inserts or filed) while others go to vampire styled night clubs and events.

Some become part of a coven or feed on psychic energies while others others do indeed drink blood. Sometimes it is animal blood (the same that’s found in your Sunday dinner) while others are given from willing donors and take safety measures for both parties. A lot of safety precautions should be taken into account and neither drinking nor donating blood should be taken lightly.

At the end of the day every some of these people are real vampires in some sense of the word. Whether they drink blood, feed on psychic energies or just eat pizza. From France or Berlin, Asia or the USA people are people and real vampires are real vampires. They come from all walks of life and do all kinds of work.

I was asked by a reader on the site a while back “is vampirism a religion”?. I’ve both read and been told different opinions on this. Some believe it’s a religion, others believe it’s a way of life while others believe being a real vampire is just something that either you are or you are not. I can’t really say one way or another since I’m authoritative to tell people what they are and what they aren’t.

We’ve received a few emails from readers of are vampires real regarding vampire names. I think people were a little confused about the Twilight article when I mentioned that name. So let me clarify a few points about real vampires and vampire names.

Some real vampires choose to adopt a ‘vampire name’ for use in a coven or with any vampire related activities. They may do so for many reasons – using vampire names as an alias can help to avoid close minded people interfering with a work or business life if they decide that your being a vampire is not acceptable to them.

I have had friends who had issues in the work place due to out of office vampire activities and the close minded beliefs and actions of management. Jobs have been lost and families have had to tighten their belts. For situations such as this using a vampire name is acceptable and even psychic vampires (a much less taboo subject when it comes to the office) have decided to use them.

Others adopt vampire names for the ‘cool factor’. This I really don’t understand since even hollywood versions of vampires have reasonably normal names these days. Whatever their reason for doing so, I wouldn’t imagine it’s a good one.

If you wish to use vampire names for a legitimate reason (for example to separate your work life and vampire lifestyle) then that is fine. It can be as mundane as Edward or as irritating as ‘Dracula’ or ‘Sir.Fangsalot’. Just keep in mind it’s likely to annoy a lot of people within your coven or friends if you go down that path.

Usually we look at something like inside the world of real vampires we are, after all, a real vampires website. However – it’s a related (not to mention interesting) subject to ask are ghosts real?

A lot of our users have been asking ‘are ghosts real‘? or ‘are spirits real‘? Heck, the glass half empty open with ‘are ghosts fake‘ but hey, each to their own. Truth be told there is a lot of information on this so we’ll have to come back to it more often.

Because vampires seem so close to who we are and because they’ve been so humanized in recent years,many people ask “are vampires real or myth”?

To simply say no, as rational people would expect, is facile. That’s because among those who call themselves vampires today, the definition has changed. The myth involves the immortal creatures that thrive off blood, sleep in coffins, change into bats, and need an invitation to cross a threshold, yet few aside from moviegoers actually do think of vampires that way anymore.

A better question is, Could vampires exist? – and the answer might depend on such things as cellular structures, dark energy, and the drug DMT. In other words, on the mechanisms of the physical world.

Scientific explanations for vampires in fiction have ranged from a disease to an infection to the manifestation of an alien race. A vampire might be a doppelganger projected out from us and given autonomous life or the result of joining two incompatible creatures. The vampire’s origins, anatomy, and essential nature have been tackled in all forms of fiction. In Dracula Unbound, Brian Aldiss traced the vampire back to a reptilian race, while in Space Vampires (1976), Colin Wilson brought them in from outer space as life-sucking parasites. Richard Matheson offered the full range of vampire characteristics as manifestations of a bacterium, and Suzy McKee Charnas developed her vampire from an interest in the medical aspects of synthesized blood.

So here’s a brief summary of what I take the “science” part of the science of vampires to be. Scientific knowledge is acquired from relying on systematic, objective observation to make deductions and create formulas from established physical laws, and testing those deductions through articulated hypotheses and controlled experiments that afford replicable results. For example, if you notice on a number of occasions that you see a certain person (let’s call him the Subject)only after sunset and never during the day; that whenever he visits a certain other person, that person always seems weakened; and that the Subject always seems to have an earthy odor about him, you can now determine that there are certain apparent regularities about his behavior that are predictable. From that, you can set up a hypothesis to test about those regularities: if the Subject is a vampire and if these traits determine how a vampire behaves (notwithstanding the intrusion of other factors), the Subject will not deviate from these patterns.He will come out only after sunset, smell like dirt, and exert some weakening effect on the person he visits.

You may then continue to observe the patterns under more controlled conditions (but without intruding in a way that alerts the Subject to the conditions) and perhaps note that your initial observations were in error (sometimes he smells like dry cleaning fluid) or you may note even more regularities: the weakened person always looks pale,wears high-collared clothing, and acts defensive when questioned about the Subject’s visit. The Subject always grows nervous and excuses himself as dawn approaches. He avoids mirrors and refuses invitations to Italian restaurants. He won’t drink…wine.

Once you have some patterns established that support your hypothesis, and you lack patterns that contradict it, you can proceed to a more rigorous approach. If your experiment can’t be brought into the lab to control for all possible variables, the Subject must be carefully observed in different types of settings and under different conditions. That is, does the weather or season make a difference? Does he deviate from his patterns in a different country? It may also serve your purposes to have other people make observations to get objective  agreement. Thus, we might approach the Subject in order to accomplish any of several things:

• determine causes of certain actions

• eliminate all possible explanations but one

• conceptualize a core essence (operational definition) from behavioral regularities

• define specific situations involving vampires, such as a crime scene

• predict what they might do now and in the future

In order to have a population for study, we use an operational definition, which I’ve offered above but will reiterate here. A vampire thrives off the life resources of others for his or her own benefit, even to the point of killing the host. Even the appearance of offering something only serves the vampire’s purpose; he or she does not give altruistically. Obviously, we can find plenty of real-life equivalent of vampire-like predators, notably serial killers, some of whom simply kill and others of whom offer something as enticement before killing. So  now we must refine the definition, because while vampires might be serial killers of a sort, not all serial killers are vampires.

So should we say that all vampires drink blood? If we do, that leaves out a whole population of psychic vampires that thrive off the life force or chi energy of their prey, which apparently can be just as destructive as feeding off their blood.

Are all vampires charming and attractive? Not by a long shot. Look at the film Nosferatu. That creepy ratlike vampire would have a hard time getting a date. Stephen King’s vampire in ’Salem’s Lot likewise,as well as the Eastern European vampires central to early folk superstitions.

Do all vampires avoid the sun? No. Both Lord Ruthven and Varney,two of the early incarnations in literature, could walk in the daytime,as could Dracula, and this was before the multiple-factored sunscreens were invented. Yet it’s possible that certain strains of vampire cannot go into the sun without threat of annihilation.

How about the vehicle of vampirism? Can we speak of vampires as being animated corpses? Now we’re getting closer, because across cultures and most fictional representations, there seems to be consensus that the vampire is the Undead or the living dead. At one time this night creature was a person who died, and somehow it returned to life looking like that person and inhabiting the very same body.

Obviously we could go on and on with these traits, but the point is that we want to stay focused on stable features so we can say something about vampires from the perspective of science that will have broad applicability.