Real Vampires Walk Among Us
Real vampire sightings are not just the imagination of modern movies,
a
skeleton uncovered from a grave in Venice is being alleged as the first
recognized case of ‘vampires’ extensively referred to in present
records.
Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy
discovered the bones of a woman with a small block in her mouth while
digging mass graves of plague fatalities from the Middle Ages on
Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice which was removed from a mass grave of
victims of the Venetian plague of 1576.
During the time period
the woman perished, many individuals conceived that the plague was
spread by ‘vampires’ which, rather than consuming human’s blood, spread
illness by gnawing on their coverings after death. Grave diggers
positioned blocks in the mouths of believed vampires to impede them from
gnawing the coverings, Matteo stated.
The urban myth depicts
Vampires as possessing a variety of supplemental powers and personality
characteristics, radically changeable in different traditions, and is a
familiar subject of folklore, movies, and present day fiction. Vampires
are believed to be enormously powerful, possessing fangs, and an
inability to be exposed to daylight or holy water Whilst they enjoy a
long existence and have an incredible healing capability, they are not
as legend tells it, thought to be outright immortal.
Additional
characteristics of the traditional Vampire is the possession of
supernatural physical abilities such as, agility, hearing, increased
smelling capacity and of course, omitting no shadow. It is believed that
Vampires also have quadrochromatic vision; while we humans have just
three kinds of conoids in our eye vampires possessed four, the fourth
being regulated to be near-infrared. It is understood that they are able
to close themselves down for decades, desiccating down to this
biologically inactive condition and entering what is commonly recognized
as an ‘undead’ phase whereby they cannot be destroyed other than by
decapitation, burning, or puncture of the heart by a wooden implement.
Vampire
legend implies that they principally bite the victim’s neck, drawing
out the blood commencing with the carotid artery. In mythology and
popular tradition, the expression usually relates to a ideology that one
can gain supernatural powers by consuming human blood. In addition,
Werewolves are occasionally thought to become vampires following death,
and vampires are frequently believed to possess the capacity to
metamorphose themselves into wolves.
The above is of course the
stuff of urban legend and our movie screens and works of fiction
however, this latest find in Venice is probably as close as we are going
to get in terms of real vampire sightings.
