Vampire Secrets

This video was amazing. I really learned a lot. Probably the most interesting part to me was about the modern day vampires, but I’ll get back to that. I liked the explanation they used for why vampires have become pop icons and are being used as advertising gimmicks. To diminish their power over us. However I feel that, if this statement is correct, in trying to diminish their power, if they were real, we would be increasing their power over us. The reason I say this is because as we make vampires into cartoons and romantic figures we don’t believe in them, or what we do believe in has lost its potency. “Remember there are such things.” The vampires power is that we refuse to believe in them. Or if you want to get into the modern day vampires their problem is we DO believe in the vampires in books in movies.
I know that the vampire legends did not originate in Transylvania, but I was interested, though hardly surprised, to find that they originated in China and India. This is because I know many other legends and myths have originated in these two places, the most prominent of these probably being the myth of dragons from China. The connection of Christianity and Jesus to vampirism was surprising. It’s interesting that most people don’t seem to make that connection. Or if they do I’ve never heard about it before.
The whole bit about Elizabeth Bathory was very… I’m not sure what to say about it. I’m just incredulous I’ve never heard mention of this before. I’d think it would be more well known. At first I was amazed and startled at the simplicity of governments that would issue lists of symptoms for vampirism. Then I realized it isn’t so surprising, or shouldn’t be. In a time where people truly believed in vampires and countless unexplainable, even now, cases were being reported, it really makes sense that a list of “symptoms” would be issued to keep the malady from spreading.
The whole Vampire Masquerade RPG sounds fun. I googled it but didn’t spend much time on it and didn’t find anything. “It’s twister for vampires”. As for RPGs causing the problems with Rod Feral, BS. It’s obvious he was mentally unstable before the events and the press just wanted to use this to sell more papers and in doing so furthered the negative images for RPG players and modern day vampires. RPGs don’t cause people to have trouble distinguishing between the game and the reality, though I can see an RPG becoming the reality an already unstable person uses to further their violent impulses.