They want the bloodline pure, aint goina happen
http://www.shroudeater.com/cfarcien.htm and
http://www.xproject.net/store/beings.html and
http://www.vampyres.com/content/iwav/content/lore.html
The one link I don't have and will find is the village in Bohemia that was infested so badly.
Had this link, now can't find it but I will and this link and info is....
http://www.praguepost.cz/feat032900a.html Wednesday, March 29, 2000
The land of the living dead
Bohemian vampires rise again ... and again ... and again ...
By Katka Fronk
"...and when they pierced it with sharpened piles of white thorn it howled horribly, writhing and champing its blud red lips with long white teeth whilst streams of warm red blud spurted out in every direction."
If you assume that the creature described above roamed the woods of Transylvania, think again. When Montague Summers wrote The Vampire in Europe in 1929, he took this account from a tiny village in Bohemia -- vampire central. According to Summers' research, you stand a greater chance of having the life sucked out of you here than in Transylvania; The Czech lands were literally "infested" with vampires from the 16th century until the industrial revolution. Recent findings seem to corroborate this belief.
Time and again, archeologists working in the Czech Republic come across what they believe are vampire graves. The skeletons they find have been mutilated using methods that, in the superstition-fueled middle ages, were thought to destroy the suckers once and for all. Bodies were exhumed, stakes driven, limbs severed, bones broken. Today it may seem like overkill. But when vampires stalked the land, it was better to be safe than sorry.
The most famous of all such graves was discovered in 1966 in Celakovice, 10 kilometers (six miles) northeast of Prague. There, archeologists uncovered 14 skeletons dating from the 10th century. The mouths were filled with stones and sand; the heads were removed from the bodies. Stories began circulating that the skeletons had fangs. The archeologists denied this.
Just last August, a dig near the Moravian city of Olomouc turned up an early medieval grave. This time, it was a woman. Her body was buried face down, her arms and legs tied together. Unlike the rest of the skeletons found at the site, the woman was lying from north to south. This sort of treatment was reserved only for the damned: Christians of the period always buried their dead in an east-west position. That same year, archeologists struck blood again in Moravia. Two adult men were buried with several children. The limbs of the men were severed from their bodies, and the bones of the infants were shattered.
What was their crime? Were they a demonic brood that rose to prey on the living, or simply the victims of a superstitious age?
Towns that were struck by a string of sudden, seemingly inexplicable deaths were a sure breeding ground for vampire myths. Somebody had to be responsible, and with the fear and uncertainty rising with each new death, a scapegoat was needed. The corpses of those who were thought to be of the undead were dug up and "killed" again, ridding the townspeople of their fears. For a while, at least.
First blood
Central and Eastern Europe is home to many vampire myths: the first reference to a vampire in writing comes from Russia, where in 1047 a Russian prince was referred to as an upir, "vampire" in Russian, Czech and Slovak. Although several accounts put the peak of the vampire plague from the 16th to the 19th centuries, the pale plasma-starved creatures seem to have been a problem long before that. The 15th-century Malleus Maleficarium, the witch hunters' bible, described how to eliminate vampires. One can't really speak of "killing" a vampire, as the fanged phantoms are technically neither alive nor dead.
And what, exactly, is a vampire? The myth has mutated over the years (or perhaps it's the vampires who have), and the undead come in all shapes and sizes, possessing any of a range of supernatural powers. Some can transform into any kind of living being. Others roam around in the daylight, and some are even (oh, shock and horror!) emancipated vampire women. But all have one thing in common: they have died, and now rise from their graves to sap the life of the living.
Of course, most respected scientists refuse to believe in the existence of any such creatures. They try their best to come up with all sorts of diseases and theories, just to help them sleep at night.
The newest rationalization is that vampires are simply rabies victims. The symptoms are strikingly similar. The rabid are hypersensitive, reacting violently to light and strong odors -- garlic, anyone? And what about those nocturnal escapades, you ask? Well, insomnia is yet another effect of rabies, as well as hypersexuality. It also keeps the blood liquid long after a person has died. And dogs aren't the only animals driven to bite when infected -- humans have been known to do the same.
Death to the undead
Such evidence seems to drive nails into the coffin of the vampire myth. But in case you're not quite convinced by the explanations of modern science -- how exactly does one go about getting rid of a bloodsucker? For those who believe the simple stake-through-the-heart method is the best route, think again.
According to one account from The Vampire in Europe, the village of Blov in west Bohemia learned the hard way how pesky these parasites can really be. As the story goes, a herdsman there simply refused to accept death as his fate. Local peasants began dropping like flies, and a vampire hunt was convened. The villagers exhumed the body of the herdsman and drove a large stake through his heart, making sure it was pinned through to the ground.
But even this was futile. The dead herdsman rose from his grave and continued with his murderous escapades that same night. He even made fun of the peasants, howling that they had "...given [him] a fine stick to drive the dogs away." It was not until the herdsman's corpse was burned that the killing stopped.
With the proliferation of recent literature, Web sites and teenage cults devoted to all things vampiric, it would seem these creatures die just as hard in the popular imagination as they do in legends. So remember this, true believers: If ever you're visited by a vampire with a Czech accent, forget about the garlic, the stake through the heart, and the crucifix. Dig him up, cut off his limbs and head and say "Burn, baby, burn."
Katka Fronk's e-mail address is
[email protected]
Editory note by Creedo 299X9, please note, that this is the said geneses point, where half vampires were born, and used in hunting-dogs roles, to find the lairs of the real vampires.
This is the second of this article in print I have found and I think the first one told of the children who were half vampire?
Here is another link,
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/czechvam.htm
