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The Vampire Diaries 10机自B 岳 爽20 吸血鬼日记 The historyof vampires Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenans who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance , markedly different from todays gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. Although vampiric entities have been record-ed in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century , after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, [1] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vampire (вампир) in Serbia, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. In modern times, however, the vampire is gene-rally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the bodys process of decomposition after death and how people in preindustrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but this link has since been largely discredited. The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampire by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. [2] However, it is B