I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.
#FolkloreMoment : I've been translating a lot of vampire folklore from northeastern Germany as of late. And they are not at all similar to modern media portrayals of the phenomenon.
For starters, they rarely if ever actually leave their graves. Instead, all their "feasting" is usually done via some sort of sympathetic connection to their victims (usually their relatives).
The reason why someone becomes a vampire after death also varies a lot. But the account I am currently translating ("Der Vampyr im Wendlande"/"The Vampyre in the Wendland Region") has a particularly interesting take on this.
You see, people will become vampires if they have been weaned off their mother's breast twice as infants - that is to say, the first attempt at weaning them off mothers' milk didn't take. They must survive to become adults, but then, once they die, they will become vampires. They are also called "Dubbelsüger" or "Doppelsauger" - "Double Sucker" for this reason.
And then, once they are dead, they will sit up in their graves and attempt to suck their own breasts - presumably because they are so used to sucking breasts during their infancy. And this "sucking" is then somehow transferred to their next of kin, who will become pale, scrawnly, and weak until they finally die.
Quite a difference to the usual Anne Rice-type vampire, isn't it?
(Incidentally, I will publish the full translation of this account on my Patreon page this December.)
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Sesame Street's Count has precedent in folklore. In various parts of Eastern Europe, vampires are compulsive counters. They're especially drawn to mustard seeds, so if you scatter the seeds while being chased, you can escape while the vampire counts them all. #FolkloreSunday#folklore#mythology#vampire#monster#SesameStreet
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There was a small OC event last year on Twitter under the hashtag #OCGala2022 and I thought it'd be neat (at the time) to offer up Celi and stretch out some outfit drawing muscles. I'm still as rusty as I was then for x reasons, so I still can't tell if it looks decent. I'd uploaded the gif version, as that was the "official" version for the wing effect--but this site doesn't like it for some reason lol, so you'll have to go here, sorry: https://twitter.com/JadineRhine/status/1483455940263387138
The tagline it's missing (imo) is "#Libby has been sold to a #vampire#capitalist firm and is on the way down the toilet; what does this signify and what can be done??"
A great read but even hardcore #horror fans will probably find it tough not to have nightmares...
Did you ever have a classmate that pretended to be a vampire or some other supernatural creature? How much did they commit to it?
I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.