VAMPIRESS

FINALLY moving onto Dracula, my fave. Here's a bit of background about what a Vampire actually is;
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings which subsist by feeding on the life essence (often blood) of other living beings regardless whether they are undead or a living person.
Thanks Wiki.
10 examples of Vampires in history:

1. Count Dracula - How could I resist the obvious. From Bram Stokers 1897 horror novel, Dracula has a mask or cordality though flies into fits or rage when his plansare interfered with. He drinks blood, defies gravity by climbing walls and has some supernatural talents. He can only be killed by decapitating the head and a stake through the heart - being undead, he is immune to normall ways of human attack. Clever Van Helsing.
   



2. Kurt Barlow - From 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (cracker of a book) He said he is so old he outdates Christianity itself, can cast hypnotic spells, and takes part in ritual human sacrifices. Not a nice guy really.



3. Spike off Buffy the Vampire Slayer - he is soulless but feels human emotions like love etc, he is driven by the thirst of blood because it has supernatural powers as it is what seperates the living from the dead. He also has a vunerability to the sun.



4. Nosferatu - also a synonym for the noun Vampire. The old black and white movie shows a vampire with all the classic features, lust for blood, is nocturnal etc. Very similar to Dracula.



5. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia - known by his patronymic Dracula, and nicknamed Vlad the Impaler. It is said that it is Vlad whom Bram Stoker based Dracula upon, because of the Prince's lust for blood/putting victims of battles on sticks. Of course he isn't a real vampire, I'm just trying my absolute hardest not to mention any character from Twilight.



6. Elizabeth Battory - aka 'The Blood Countest' 1560-1614, Hungarian (rings a bell) her cousin Stephen became Prince of Transylvania in 1575. Believe it or not, she had an illigitimate child at the age of 14 (whoa) but married a count at 15. She was a stunner apparently, and her narcism made her look at herself for hours in a mirror. She had another 3 daughters and a son. She became interested in black magic, and her and her husband would torture servants using wartorture methods. The village where their castle was believed in the folklore of Vampires and became worried when Countess Battory became romantically linked to a supposed 'Vampire'. After some pretty horrific tortures after her husband died, she grew older and less beautiful, drawing the blood of young maids apparently was the cure to aging. Get some Olay or something.



7. Louis and Lestat from that film 'Interview with a Vampire' so a guy called Louis has a wife and kid and they get killed. He's absolutly gutted and befriends a vampire called Lestat. Having nothing to live for, he accepts Lestats offer to become a creature of the night, so Lestat drains Louis' blood and replaces it with immortal blood. He then learns the way of the vampires.

That's it! I can't think of any more and the web isn't being helpful with it. 7/10 ain't bad.