- The interesting thing about vampires is, that you can find almost in every culture a creature, often referred to as a demon entity or a spirit, that resembles the traits that modern vampires share. For example, the earliest references to vampires come from Ancient Egypt, where it was believed that the demon(or vampire) was summoned with sorcery.
- The word 'Vampire' actually comes from two Slavonic Magyar words: 'vam' meaning blood and 'pir' meaning monster. So vampire literally means 'blood monster'. This term got more popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, when reports of vampire folklore became widely popularized in England and Germany, which formed the basis of the modern vampire legends. The first case of a real person being reported as a vampire came from Istria, modern Croatia, where some villagers believed that a dead man had risen from his grave and started to sexually harass widows and drink their blood.
- The Dark Ages have been considered to be the time where vampires date back to, even though vampire like demons and creatures are found earlier on
Sources:
1. http://www.livescience.com/24374-vampires-real-history.html
2. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-real-life-vampires-of-new-england-and-abroad-42639093/
3. http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/the-origins-of-vampire-myths
4. http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/vampire5.htm
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