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What is the origin of vampires?
In the Middle Ages14th century in Europe, the church publicly admitted that vampires did exist. The origin of vampires first appeared in the Christian Bible. Its role is Cain. According to legend, Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, were tempted by Satan, ate the fruit of wisdom, were cursed by God and were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. Cain is in charge of farming and Abel is in charge of grazing. Once, when Cain offered sacrifices to God, he could only offer some vegetables and rice as sacrifices, while Abel offered lambs and other meat as sacrifices. God only favored Abel's sacrifice, which led Cain to be jealous and finally stoned his brother Abel to death. All this did not take away God's eyes, and God called Cain to his side. When asked about the whereabouts of his brother Abel, Cain lied that he didn't know. God listed Cain's actions, and then cursed Cain: "What did you do? There is a voice in your brother's blood crying to me from the ground. Open your mouth slowly and accept your brother's blood from you. Now you will be cursed by this land. When you farm, the land will no longer serve you, and you will drift on the ground. " Cain said to God, "My punishment is too heavy for me. Now you have driven me out of this land, so that I cannot see your face. I will wander on the ground and anyone who meets me will kill me. " God said to him, "Whoever kills Cain will be rewarded sevenfold." So God put a sign on Cain, lest anyone should meet him and kill him. So Cain left Mina of God and went to the land of Nod east of Eden. (From the fourth chapter of Genesis, sentences 10 to 16) Records in the Bible stop here, but it is said that Cain later wandered in the Red Sea and met Lilith, who jumped into the Red Sea because he disobeyed God (also known as Satan's lover, and most demons on earth were born of him). )。 He learned to use magic and power with blood from Lilith, and God swore to him "don't kill him", so he gave Cain the condition of eternal life. Using magic and power requires a lot of blood. So Cain became the first vampire (some people think that the first vampire refers to Delith). By the way, there is a very interesting thing here, that is, the holy book of prophecy circulated among vampires, the book of Noah, and the place recorded by Cain in the Bible overlap. After becoming vampires, Cain and Lilith gave birth to 13, the third generation vampire, known as "the closest power to God". And these 13 third-generation vampires have evolved into the 13 clan of modern vampires. There is also a legend that this third-generation vampire refers to the human beings in Noah's Ark. When the flood receded, they came out of the ark to engage in jihad with the second-generation vampires, killing all the second-generation vampires (I personally find it unbelievable, because there were no 13 people in Noah's Ark in the Bible, up to eight, and five were missing). That's it, the third generation vampire is known as "the vampire closest to divine power". At this point, it can be said that ancient vampires have nothing to record, maybe they have, but they have not been discovered. Why do people think that vampires are mostly set in medieval Europe? This is caused by the earliest and most classic vampire literature. In addition, the standard vampires always live in medieval castles in Europe, for hundreds of years or thousands of years, and vampires are super nostalgic, so they are always reminiscent of the cruel and barbaric dark ages in Europe. And this book is braam stock's The Count of Vampires (Dracula in English). At that time, bram stoker was planning to write this novel. When he was looking up information, he came across the name of the evil archduke. It was later named after this name. Moreover, in the history of Europe, Dracula did exist. He is famous for his cruelty. Prisoners of war often insert a long wooden stick from their hips, then come out from their mouths all the way through their bodies, and then hold the wooden stick high and be tortured to death by prisoners of war. What are vampires afraid of? They are only afraid of things related to Christianity, sunshine and silverware. There is a question here, that is, why vampires are also afraid of silverware. Christian things and sunshine can be explained clearly, but silverware seems difficult to explain. As long as the landlord reads the Bible and the New Testament, he will find a very interesting conclusion. Look at what Judas betrayed the son of God for. That's right 13 Roman silver coin! ! ! ! So there is another saying, Judas, another ancestor of vampires (most people don't believe it, but I personally think this Judas can be called the ancestor of modern vampires). It should be noted here that the third generation vampires seem to enter hibernation after completing the jihad. After that, there are very few things about vampires. Until about14th century, the Christian church publicly acknowledged the existence of vampires, which led to mass killings by the Inquisition. During this period, the only thing that can be linked to14th century is Judas. Otherwise, vampires can't appear for no reason. Then there are modern vampires, mostly divided into several party members, secret parties and magic banquets, and some "hermit clubs" composed of vampires who have lived for a long time (not to mention too young). References:

Genesis, Dracula and other vampires: they have a long life that they don't know how to calculate, strong bodies, special abilities, perfect physical recovery ability, and little fertility. (So there are almost no pure blood vampires. Depend on human blood to maintain vitality (vampire's ability is the weakest period before complete transformation). The first hug is a ritual similar to injecting with vampire fangs. After being hugged for the first time, fangs will appear in about 1 considerate 10 days, and then there will be an impulse to suck blood. Vampires that first bred in or before the Middle Ages are considered to be the lowest level, and will not be considered as clansmen by other "blood-chasing vampires". It is true that the upper limit of the ability of novice vampires is far lower than that of blood-chasing vampires. Usually the first hug will brand the first hug with a spirit, and the giver will subconsciously admit that the giver is the master. Legend has it that under the influence of branding, the giver will absolutely obey, but now it is believed that forced obedience is related to mental coercion, that is, the command is not absolute. The "first night vampire" will not inherit the surname of the first night giver, that is, the aristocratic status, have no family brand, and will not have the ability to "reproduce". It cannot give first night vampires and blood-chasing vampires, and its life span is shorter than that of blood-chasing vampires. Blood inheritance is a ritual that allows the giver to drink the blood of the giver, thus transforming the blood of the giver into a vampire. After donating blood, the blood donor will subconsciously think that the blood donor is the father and inherit the blood donor's surname, thus obtaining the aristocratic status of the family. Vampires' blood is considered to be their strong point, and their blood will not recover as quickly as humans, so losing more than 50% blood is one of the ways to kill them. "Blood-chasing vampires" also have an innate racial ability. It is said that it can become a bat, dissipate into blood fog, and use the unique magic of blood clan. Only "blood step vampires" have the ability to "reproduce", and the general "blood step vampires" are aristocrats in the race. I think that when you suck blood from a living body, your fangs will secrete a liquid similar to LSD to paralyze the target, so that the target will not struggle, which is why people will have a comfortable groan and happy expression after being bitten. Legend has it that vampires are afraid of crosses and garlic, which is nonsense to me. The harm of silver products and mercury to vampires still has a history. I don't think holding a peach cone against a vampire's heart can kill him. From the physiological function of vampires, the heart has no influence, so I still think it is more convenient to attack the brain directly with silver bullets. In addition, don't think that ordinary weapons can hurt vampires. Ordinary power pistols and bullets may not even hurt much, let alone kill people. Legend has it that people who can fight fast swords with their bare hands are even more afraid of ordinary swords now. If you can use tanks or anti-tank rockets, you may be able to wait for vampires to produce some effects on the ground, but sometimes even humans can avoid vampires. So if you want to kill the guy who sucks your girlfriend's blood, your only possibility is to get a powerful pistol and a powerful mercury bomb with a silver warhead. Just kidding, let's get down to business. Because it is said that vampires are afraid of the sun, but they used to think it was a curse from God, but I don't think it has anything to do with ultraviolet rays. Because of the practice of burning vampires, I think vampires are afraid of high temperature, and the upper limit of temperature they can bear is much lower than that of humans. Therefore, I think vampires will weaken even if they are strong in the sun, and irradiation for a certain period of time will also accelerate the aging of the body. However, I think that if you are forced to bask in the sun for a long time from the beginning, you will be immune to the sun, so some people say that the role of the sun on vampires who have not seen light for many years is much greater than that of vampires who have just become blood relatives. Too much disgust becomes fear, and too much fear becomes "natural enemies". I'm not saying that they won't get sick, but the speed of their physical recovery can almost be seen with their eyes. Maybe they are neither old nor immortal, but we have to deny that their life expectancy is much longer than ours. The size of power is directly proportional to human body shape in physics and medicine, but vampires go beyond this concept, and their speed can not be explained by common concepts such as physics. I think the vampire's special ability is nothing more than controlling the elements in space to launch magic, hypnotize hallucinations, and prepare for short-distance teleportation. Nothing can be turned into a bat, which is beyond the space law of this world. I think vampires can communicate with bats and keep some bats, which is why they are so wrong. Vampires don't die immediately if they don't suck blood, but they just age like humans. According to legend, magic may make them blood relatives who don't even know they are vampires. Blood-sucking is the same physiological instinct as human eating. If you don't know that you are a vampire's blood relative, you will subconsciously give up the idea of sucking blood, so you can also think that vampires are mutated or special humans. I don't think vampires are magical things, and I don't have any antipathy to vampires, because human beings are only afraid of something stronger than themselves. Now that there are natural enemies, it becomes fear. The top of the biological chain is not human, so how perfect the blood clan is.