Is a vampire a possessing spirit out of the graveyards of Ancient Greece, or a leather-clad biker with fangs that appears on nearly every episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"? ... In China, it was said that after death, a spirit may return to the realm of the living in the body of a red-eyed monster with green or pink hair. ... The idea of the vampire was said to have originated as the lamia, an ancient Greek demon with the head and torso of a woman and the body of a winged serpent. ... In order to prevent the rising of such corpses, preventative measures were taken, including placing a cruci...

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He would kill his victims, drain their blood, and then dispose of their bodies by pouring acid over them. ... When the group exhumed the body, they found a fresh corpse. There was no decomposition of the body whatsoever, in fact the old skin and nails had fallen off, and new ones had grown to take their place! ... When one member of the group staked, or put a wooden, pointed stick through the heart of the body. ... Almost everything known about vampires comes form the movies seen, Bram Stokers Dracula, the shows watched, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the books read, The Vampire Chronicles b...

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