The earliest records of vampires are oral folklore in Eastern Europe in the 18th century. In these legends, vampires refer to corpses that can crawl out of their graves to suck blood after death. When medical treatment was underdeveloped at that time, some people who were not really dead but just in shock were buried, and then crawled out of the cemetery when they woke up and were regarded as immortal beings. During the period of the Black Death in Europe, when people were extremely panicked This situation aroused the fear that such dead people would continue to move around, and thus the legend of German vampires like Nittart, who had the ability to transmit the Black Death, emerged.
In Western stories, the ancestor of vampires is Cain. Adam and his wife Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. Abel was a shepherd and Cain was a plowman. On the day of offering to God, Cain contributed the produce of the land; Abel offered some selected suckling sheep. God looked favorably on Abel’s offering but not on Cain’s. So Cain held a grudge and found an opportunity to invite his brother Abel to the wilds. When they arrived there, Cain killed Abel. Later, God knew about this and was very angry. He punished Cain by wandering all his life and living forever. Anyone who killed him would be punished seven times. Later, Cain wandered near the Red Sea, and the night witch Lilith taught him how to use the power of blood. Gradually, Cain’s descendants formed the current vampire family.
There is also a theory that the ancestor of vampires is Dracula. Dracula is not a real character in history, but comes from Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”. Legend has it that the prototype of Dracula is taken from a famous figure in European history, Vlad III, a famous ancient Romanian general who was later named Grand Duke. He was famous for his cruelty. Prisoners of war were often inserted into a long wooden stick from the anus and then passed through the entire body and out of the mouth, and then the wooden stick was set up high to torture the prisoners of war to death. Thousands of prisoners were executed at one time using this method. Turkish prisoners of the Ottoman Empire. Hence the name “Tepesh (“Pierce” in Romanian), also known as “The Grand Duke of Impalement”. At the same time, Vlad III also suffered from bloody madness, but he was a devout Catholic.