[pinkpaisley]

Welcome to the Vampire Mythology Thread!!
This is the place to discuss all the different mythologies we've come across in books, tv shows and movies.

The Mythology of Moonlight

• They drink blood so they don't age
• They sleep in a freezer
• They can live on blood from a blood bank
• Daylight weakens them and being exposed to the sun for too long can kill a vampire
• Decapitation or fire will kill them
• Garlic and crucifixes don't hurt them
• Flight, Fight, Feed and Sex will turn a vampire
• Stake through the heart paralyzes them as does silver
• The sun makes them sick
• They heal very fast
• They have excellent hearing and smell
• They get more powerful as they grow older

The Mythology of Anne Rice's Vampires

• They are not affected by garlic, crosses or silver, and they cannot be killed with wooden stakes.
• Human blood is preferred as it is more nutritious, but animal blood can also be drunk.
• They do not age physically but their skin become very white.
• Younger vampires can usually be killed by exposure to sunlight or fire. But thousand years vampires aren't mich affected.
• Old ones can fly.
• They can read minds of weaker vampires and mortals
• They can move very quick. Old vampires can even move matter using thier minds.
• They are very emotional.
• They can become weak when they drank blood of a person who was dead for quite some time.

The Mythology of the "Twilight" series by Stephenie Meyer

• they glow in the sun
• the good ones feed once in a while on animal blood
• their skin is pale and feel cold
• they don't sleep
• some vampires have special abilities (read minds, tell the future, control others emotions)
• nothing can kill a vampire, except a vampire or a werewolf (new moon)
• they can move quickly
• you can become a vampire if you get bitten by one

The Mythology of the "Black Dagger Brotherhood" series by J.R. Ward

• The Brotherhood is a group of warrior vampires that is protecting the race from lessers. Lessers are the enemy. They hunt vampires and kill vampires. It's hard for the woman to make it through childbirth, so the childbirth rate is very low.
• Vampire males and females can only drink blood from each other. Human blood won't sustain them. They only have to drink once a month, I think.
• They can't stand daylight and they heal fast.

The Mythology of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

• New vampires are born through siring. After the blood loss and drinking of a vampire's blood, they reawaken after an undetermined time (could be hours or even days) feeling disoriented, but acquire clarity usually after the first feeding
• A wooden stake through the heart will kill them, as will decapitation, fire, and exposure to the sun
• They have enhanced senses and supernatural strength
• They usually sleep in coffins and/or dark places
• They can look like humans, but in their vampire form their faces get deformed and demonic looking
• There's a rare race of vampires called the "Turok-Han", the primordial ones. They're ferocious and animalistic, "the vampires that vampires fear". They have no rational thought. They're stronger and tougher to kill than the regular ones.

The Mythology of Blood Ties

• Vampires die when they come in contact with sunlight
• Once a vampire feeds from a lover, she eventually dies
• Vampires are very territorial and don't want any other vampires hunting where they hunt
• The vampire has immense strength and incredible speed that can, in the dark of the night, render him almost invisible. He can hear a heartbeat hundreds of yards away, smell prey through a brick wall and see through the inky darkness of the night.
• He has strong powers of persuasion and can make people do things against their will
• There is one thing that can strip a vampire of it's powers. It's a sundial that is placed on the hear. Don't know the name though. Anyone?

The Mythology of True Blood

[chaotic4life]

Great thread! I am really looking forward to see what other details they will bring into the show later.

I think it was established yesterday, that sunlight will not just weaken them, but eventually will kill them.

[Shnicky]

Well, you can ask me about Anne Rice's vampires.

• They are not affected by garlic, crosses or silver, and they cannot be killed with wooden stakes.
• Human blood is preferred as it is more nutritious, but animal blood can also be drunk.
• They do not age physically but their skin become very white.
• Younger vampires can usually be killed by exposure to sunlight or fire. But thousand years vampires aren't mich affected.
• Old ones can fly.
• They can read minds of weaker vampires and mortals
• They can move very quick. Old vampires can even move matter using thier minds.
• They are very emotional.
• They can become weak when they drank blood of a person who was dead for quite some time.
  

I wonder how similar or different will these be from the characteristics of vampires in Moonlight.

[Pav]

Wow, Gay, I'm impressed.

Great idea, Yvonne.

[Talkative One]

I like the idea of this

I should check the show out because I like vampires very much

[Enigma]

Great idea for a thread. Thanks for starting this.

[Talkative One]

I can't wait to see this thread take off because its the Mythology that I about vampires

[Brilliant Disguise]

Great thread

In the twilight series:

• they glow in the sun
• the good ones feed once in a while on animal blood
• their skin is pale and feel cold
• they don't sleep
• some vampires have special abilities (read minds, tell the future, controle others emotions)
• nothing can kill a vampire, except a vampire or a werewolf (new moon)
• they can move quickly
• you can become a vampire if you get bitten by one

That's all I can think of right now

[pinkpaisley]

Originally Posted by Talkative One (View Post) I can't wait to see this thread take off because its the Mythology that I about vampires

Me too?

Who here has read J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series? That's my favourite series I ever read. Absolutely amazing and with a whole mythology of their own too. But I gotta run, so I will post about it later.

[Talkative One]

Thanxs for the recommend because I've never heard of that series

[Brilliant Disguise]

The Black Dagger Bortherhood series is very good
I've only read the first book and anxiously waiting for book 2 and 3

[Talkative One]

I'll have to look into it

[Brilliant Disguise]

Moonlight:

• Steak through the heart paralizes them
• The sun makes them sick
• THey heal very fast
• They have excellent hearing and smell

[Talkative One]

The other books that I have read is Anne Rice with reading some of those. I've seen alot of movies

[Ms_Melika]

This is a great idea for a thread.

One question that has been bothering me, maybe someone knows the answer...

Why would a vampyre, like Mick, ,need to sleep in a cool climate? He seems to sleep in a cooler and even the doctor from last weeks show slept in the fridge in his garage and in last night's episode it was a tub of cold water and ice.

What is it about cold climates?

(This cold climate factor was also apparent in the movie Van Helsing)