Archaeologist find Venetian Vampire!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63235)
United States
March 9, 2009 5:59pm CST
Can you believe it? Well, apparently back during the plague in Venise, they thought it was spread by female vampires. So, when a grave digger found one they thought was a vampire, they'd put a brick in the mouth to keep her from feeding on the dead around her until she was strong enough rise and feed on the living.
strange what people believe!
http://eternallycool.net/2009/03/archaeologists-find-venetian-vampire/
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@Darkwing (21583)
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10 Mar 09
I believe there are vampires... maybe not as they are depicted in films and books... some of that is imagination, but I certainly don't rule out the possibility of vampires and demons being present in the Universe. Archaeologists are not always right, but they're not always wrong either, so I see no reason not to believe what they say is true, although the ancients they're talking about could have had false or way-out beliefs. Who knows? 
Brightest Blessings my friend.
Brightest Blessings my friend.@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
18 Mar 09
Well, there's the other side to that - if you remember, Dracula had to share blood, the fact that he drank it didn't make them a vampire, it was the sharing of blood - the once bitten is something that came about because the movies were to squimish to show that Dracula shared blood with the one he was turning.
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
10 Mar 09
How can anyone actually believe in vampires. And only females are causing it. Why not males too?
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
10 Mar 09
You pointed me to something I had never heard of before. It is strange what people believed before science told us about the spread of disease.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
10 Mar 09
People have to believe in something. I think it's kind of neat finding out about latter day beliefs!
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@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
10 Mar 09
This artical sounds interesting. I wonder who she realy was in life. was she rich or poor? was she attractive or plain. why did the townspeole think she was a vanpire?
@liaamur (417)
• Philippines
10 Mar 09
it's amazing to see that people go to such lengths to explain something. we all need to get an explanation of some sort--of any sort--because we mostly fear the unknown. on one hand, we see the creativity and the vast imagination of humankind. on the other hand, it would seem desperate to explain something with just about anything that would 'seem' to fit the outcome that we see.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Mar 09
wow this is amazing, I am going to write about it, thanks for the idea my friend.
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