Energy vampires do not need fangs to live
11/07/2005 16:36
Energy vampires do not realize their harmful qualities
A lot of people will probably say that they sometimes experience weird and unpleasant feelings after even a short conversation with others, whether it is a friend or a stranger. A person may feel fagged out and weary after such communication. As it turns out, these conditions can result from an "attack" of an energy vampire. Unlike fictitious vampires that climb out of their coffins at night and kill people drinking their blood, energy vampires need to absorb other people's energy.
Russian parapsychologist, Sergei Nikodimov, an expert of anomalous phenomena, is certain that energy vampirism is a part of every-day reality. "Numerous research works conducted by specialists of bioenergetics all over the world showed that all people can be conditionally divided into two major categories - vampires and donors. Each person radiates with live biological energy, which he or she can give to someone or take from someone. This quality of give and take forms with every human being during the moment of birth. If a baby is born as an energy vampire, this child is extremely capricious. When they grow, they try to follow parents everywhere on their heels and even try to sleep with them at night. As a rule, a person does not realize the need in other people's energy: the energy exchange happens on a subconscious level. However, a human body senses this invisible communication too and reacts with fatigue, headache, etc. A person may feel dog-tired at night and have absolutely no wish to get up in the morning. The loss of energy through human communication may also result in depression and weakened immune system," the professor said.
Sergei Nikodimov believes that energy vampires do not realize their harmful qualities. The majority of them may know nothing about dangerous effects that they show on other people: they act instinctively as a rule. "Energy vampires feel at times that they need to fill up their stock of biological energy just to be able to live well. They take this energy from the people around them, keeping up a normal state of health and damaging other people's physical state," the scientist said.
Brushing all those negative things aside, one may say that energy vampires can be very good individuals indeed. They can even suffer when they see the sufferings of other people, which they originally caused. To crown it all, vampires can give way to depression when they see that no one wants to be friends with them.
Energy vampires subconsciously provoke scandals to refresh themselves with the power of contradictions. Any person becomes defenseless in the sate of anger: this is exactly the moment, when vampires "feed themselves." They always try to visit the sites of tragic accidents. A lot of energy vampires can be passionate fans of sports games, such as football, for instance: huge stadiums accumulate a vast amount of psychic energy. Energy vampires hate being alone: they always need to have someone beside them, whom they can talk with at any moment. They usually say phrases like: "Stay with me a little, I am bored," or "Don't leave me alone, I'll die." In addition, they constantly want other people to feel sorry for them, which irritates donors and makes them give their energy away to vampires.
LAIR OF THE VAMPIRES
17 November 2005
Scientists in Bulgaria say they have unearthed a 1700-year-old vampire graveyard. The skeletons found in Bourgas had nails driven through their bones to stop them rising from the dead.
Human beings turn into vampires due to a genetic flaw
Vampires are very popular when it comes to fiction. There are numerous movies featuring vampires, including a few Russian-made flicks e.g. Night Watch and its sequels released over the last few years. Are vampires just fiction? According to some ostensibly serious researchers, there is not smoke without fire. They believe that all the bloodsucker stories in the modern-age movies were concocted from the original ingredients dating back to the Middle Ages. In other words, the vampires have existed and still exist in our time.
The number of vampires could have grown in a geometric progression
Kostas Eftimiou, a professor of physics at the University of Central Florida , claims to have proven that vampires are mathematically impossible. He believes that the existence of vampires is in complete contradiction to the laws of mathematics. As by popular beliefs, once bitten is forever smitten. A person bitten by a vampire is thought to become one and starts sucking blood of other people. So what? The point is that vampires are supposed to multiply in a geometric progression if the concept holds any water.
Prof. Eftimiou recently conducted calculations on the assumption that the first vampire came into being in 1600 at a time when the Earth's population totaled about 600 million. The original vampire bit his first victim, which bit another one, and thus triggered a chain reaction of sorts. Eftimiou's calculations indicate that the whole world would have been populated by vampires within two years; everybody would have gone for the jugular had the scenario proved correct. Yet nothing of the above took place in reality. Therefore, there is no such thing as vampires.
Modern bloodsuckers
Meanwhile, the police arrested a young man in the village of Novomosvovski of the Kaliningrad region, Russia. The man is believed to have stabbed an elderly woman and started licking blood that poured from the wound, Interfax reports.
According to the BBC, the 17-year-old British national Mathew Hardman stabbed his neighbor to death and drank her blood to become immortal. Manuela and Daniel Rudha, a married pair from Germany, are reported to have killed a man and drank his blood up. Daniel sharpened his incisors for cutting the blood vessels more effectively, while Manuela's teeth were equipped with custom-made crowns that were shaped like fangs for the same purposes.
The media report on similar stories on a regular basis. Does it mean that vampires really exist?
"The individuals cited in the reports are not by any means vampires. All of them are crazy freaks, the so-called 'Satanists'," said Sergei Vasilyev, Candidate of Medical Sciences. They drank human blood while performing some kind of a ritual. We shouldn't confuse them with truly sick persons who have always been and still are around. The legendary vampires of the past must have been modeled on those sick ones," added Vasilyev.
Burn baby burn
The first vampire stories emerged about one thousand years ago. There were hordes of vampires in the Middle Ages or so it seems. Dozens of them were caught and burned alive just like witches during the Inquisition time.
There are numerous treatises penned by the members of the Holy Office with regard to the vampires' description. The creatures were believed to come alive at night and leave their graves to suck the blood of sleeping persons. They were portrayed as detestable wild-eyed creatures afraid of daylight; a typical vampire was thought to have horrible canine teeth and a fear of daylight.
Lee Eallis, a British physician, is the first researcher who attempted to look into the subject of vampirism from the scientific point of view. He came up with a theory that linked the so-called vampires with porphyria, one of a group of rare inherited disorders due to disturbance of the metabolism of the breakdown product of the red blood pigment hemoglobin. In 1963, Eallis submitted his monograph titled On Porphyria and Etymology of Vampires to the Royal Society of Medicine.
However, his work was largely ignored by the members of the society. Professor Wayne Tikkanen, a colleague of Eallis', unearthed the theory in the mid-1980s. Not unlike Eallis, he began to maintain that "all European myths of vampires were based on solid grounds." But what are those grounds, after all?
Poison under the skin
Scientists believe porphyria is an inherited disease caused by some genetic flaw which affects the subcutaneous pigments.
Every living thing has porphyrins, the pigments derived from porhin, a complex nitrogen-containing ring structure and parent compound of the porphyrins. The porphyrins make part of chlorophyll, which paints the leaves green, and hemoglobin, a substance responsible for the color of the red blood cells. A disruption of the genetic program leads to disturbance of the metabolism of porphyrins. As a result, they accumulate beneath the skin. Consequently, sensitivity of the skin to sunlight changes and hence the porphyrins become catalysts in the conversion of common oxygen into the so-called singlet oxygen. The latter causes damage to the cells.
"The face of a patient affected by porphyria at its late stages is badly deformed; his extremities become bent out of shape. By and large, he is a terrifying sight to look at," said Sergei Vasilyev. "His complexion grows darker as his gums erode making the incisors look more protruding. The color of his incisors has a sinister blood-red hue in it so the teeth look as if they've been stained with blood. Besides, persons who suffer from porphyria are afraid of sunlight, which causes chronic inflammation and blistering. Therefore, they tend to leave their houses only at night. Mental disturbances follow in most cases" added Vasilyev.
Lust for hemoglobin
According to some scientists, a bad case of porphyria may have prompted the sufferer to seek other person's blood to temporarily alleviate the suffering. How could the sufferer get hold of the human blood in the Middle Ages? Numerous vampire stories contain a detailed description of the method. A person's lust for blood is overwhelming; his self-preservation instincts turn him into a vampire. The rest belongs to myths and legends embellished with all kinds of bloodcurdling detailed.
"Porphyria is still one of the most mysterious diseases of our time," said Vasilyev. Doctors hold out some hope of the genetic methods currently in the works. In the meantime, blood transfusion is widely used for treatment of the disorder. However, blood transfusion proves ineffective in the most severe cases of porphyria. Fortunately, the total number of the terminally ill patients diagnosed with porphyria around the globe is fairly small, around one hundred cases on record," said Vasilyev.
Hennelora Kohl, the wife of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, was rumored to have suffered from an incurable case of porphyria. Her pains caused by sunlight were unbearable; she had to stay in most of her time. Finally, she took her own life on July 5th, 2001.
Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda
Translated by Guerman Grachev
Legends about vampires and werewolves still live today
26.10.2007 Source: Pravda.Ru
The modern culture is abundant with stories about vampires. Film producers make many movies about vampire hunters every year, lots of books about vampirism and vampires appear regularly. Feeding on blood has become one of the top issues discussed at a variety of forums, especially of Gothic teenagers. What is the official medicinal opinion about vampires today?
Almost all cultures existing in the world have stories telling about living corpses that raise from the dead to feed on human blood. In all epochs blood was considered to be the source of vital force, and creatures known for their ability to suck human blood were awfully terrifying. In oriental countries, evil gods and sinister spirits were said to be bloodsuckers while stories about dead people transformed into vampires were well-spread in the European culture.
The present-day notion of vampires is generally based upon the Slavic mythology. Popular superstitions about East European vampires exerted great influence upon people from neighboring countries, and soon the vampire image got universal for the entire of the world.
Slavic people believed that those who died as a result of killing and suicide stood higher chances of becoming vampires after death. Peasants believed that those who died at their not really old age would keep on living their lives even after death. They said that such deceased needed the vital force of those staying alive and sucked people’s blood as they wanted no other food.
If people apprehended that their deceased relatives could turn into vampires after death they took necessary measures beforehand to avoid such a tragic transformation. It was considered that a dead human would not turn into a bloodsucker after burial if a crucifix or garlic are placed close to the body in a coffin, if a dead man’s clothes are nailed to a coffin or if the heart of a deceased is pierced through with an aspen stake. It was believed that a dead body with a broken heart stood no chance of reviving, and also people thought that a vampire would not rise from a grave if his or her body is fastened tight to the ground.
In Romania, dead bodies of children and young people were kept unburied for several years so that others could have a chance to see if they had turned into vampires or not; at that those staying alive could watch decay of dead bodies. If the process of decay was normal then the dead body was buried completely; and if it turned that dead bodies remained intact for a longer period of time then such deceased were decapitated, garlic was put into the mouths and bodies were pierced through with stakes.
The first study of vampirism was conducted in the 18th century. The history of Serbian peasant Peter Plogojewitz that happened to him in 1725 is the most well-known documented instance of vampirism. The respectable peasant died in 1725 at the age of 62 and was buried in accordance with the local tradition. In two months after the burial nine people living in that village died of some strange disease within eight days. At that, each of the deceased said that a day before the dead Peter had come to visit them. Peter’s widow did not trust the stories until one night her dead husband started knocking on the door and demanding that the woman must give him her shoes. The poor woman was terribly scared and next morning fled from the village for ever.
Locals decided to disinter the dead body to conduct an investigation of the incident. Military men and the priest from the place were invited for an expertise. When exhumed the dead body of Peter seemed quite intact, the dead man had nails and hair longer than at the moment of burial, the skin looked quite fresh but slightly pale and there were stains of blood in the mouth. Locals insisted that the heart of the dead man must be pierced through with an aspen stake. And a fountain of fresh blood rushed out from Peter’s mouth right at the moment when the body was pierced through with the stake. While locals were burning the dead body of the vampire a military man who was in command of the exhumation wrote a detailed report for his army commanders. Soon, the report was published in the leading newspapers all over the world.
The scary publication gave rise to a war against vampires in Europe. People in all villages suspected at least one of the neighbors of being a bloodsucker; people exhumed dead bodies out from their graves to pierce the dead bodies with stakes to make sure that they would not turn into vampires. That was a real hysteria, and authorities in many countries charged doctors with an official investigation of all mysterious instances to provide a documented confirmation or denial of vampire existence.
In 1746, French theologian Antoine Augustine Calmet published a treatise on all instances of vampirism in Europe he knew. He also cautiously supposed in this work that vampires were probably no myth but the reality. The authority of the theologian was so great that the society immediately stated that existence of vampires was a scientifically proven fact.
The vampire hunting slightly abated in 1768 when Austrian doctor Gerhard Van Sweeten published his work saying that no vampires existed, and all known instances of alleged vampirism could be explained from a scientific point of view.
One of the most revolutionary discoveries in connection with vampirism was made by doctors in the second half of the 20th century. In 1963, British doctor Lee Illis published his monograph “On porphyria and etiology of werewolves” with an analysis of documented instances of vampirism and werewolves in Europe in the 12-19th centuries. The doctor supposed that majority of the instances were not connected with superstitions but with porphyria, an infrequent genetic abnormality that reveals with one human out of the total number of 200,000. He said that in case a parent suffered from porphyria the probability of inheriting the disease by the parent’s child was 25 percent. Like many other genetic dysfunctions porphiria arises from incest, and European monarchs who often married close relatives sometimes suffered from the disease.
As a result of the disease people have problems with pigment metabolism and suffer from hemoglobin decay under the influence of UV radiation or UV rays. Such patients suffer from pains by the light of the sun and have to stay in dark rooms all day long and go out at night only.
In case the disease is getting too serious patients may even have their tendons deformed so that their fingers get curved. The skin around lips and gums grows thinner and harder which makes cutting teeth look like a grin. They have thinner and paler skin, and teeth may sometimes be stained red. In a word, such patients look very much like vampires.
It is clear that the history of Peter Plogojewitz can hardly be explained with the strange disease, but it is likely that people executed as suspected of being vampires or werewolves could in fact be just miserable patients suffering from the disease. Today when gene engineering is successfully developing one can expect that porphyria will in the nearest future stop affecting people.
Bats are the most well-known natural vampires at the time when majority of them in fact feed on insects only. In Central and South America there are vampire bats that suck blood of mammals and birds. Sleeping animals may usually fall victim of natural vampires that may suck up to 40 ml of their blood within 20 minutes. Sometimes natural vampires may attack people, however bites of bats are dangerous for people not because of loss of blood but because of infectious diseases that bats may carry.
Translated by Maria Gousseva
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Vampires are proved to exist
30.04.2008
Source: Pravda.Ru
Legends about vampires, so popular among gothic-style fans, have a real base. People that fear daylight, have yellow fang-like teeth, animal-looking nails and are allergic to garlic do exist, not to mention those who merely wear black, gothic jewelry, gets fang implants and bites innocent old ladies while high. By the way, the fact that old ladies are bitten isn’t a myth; in the Kaliningrad region a teenager killed 2 pensioners for a special vampire ceremony. The cruelest accident happened in Great Britain 4 years ago. Then a 17-year teenager slaughtered his female neighbor, teared out her heart and sucked out blood to gain immortality.
Almost each nation has legends about vampires that hunt people at night and drink their blood. In these legends vampires are cruel, heartless, half-decayed creatures. For example, Slavic mythology has a belief that a vampire won’t get out of grave if you throw some corn inside. The vampire will count corns all night long. But the image of a vampire has changed. Today it is an enigmatic sexy superstar that kept its peculiar traits: love of blood, hate for garlic, and fear for the sun. In the Middle Ages the legend about vampires was complemented with the information that they fear cross and Holy Water. That remained a myth until 1963, when a British doctor Li Illis made a stunning announcement: vampire-werewolf is nothing more than a victim of a genetic pathology – porphyria.
This is a rare disease – only 1 in 20000 people suffers from it. The body doesn’t produce red corpuscles and thus a person’s blood lacks oxygen and iron and this leads to hemoglobin breakdown under the sunshine. Soon blisters and ulcers pop up; a person starts to have sun energy and can even die. This disease can also cause nose, ears and cartilages deformation. His fingers start to convolve; the skin around mouth gets dry and reveals gums, which turn yellowish because of porphyrine deposition on the teeth. Garlic that stimulates red corpuscles emission in the body of healthy person causes the exacerbation of symptoms among the ill people. This goes hand in hand with harsh pain, so these people also often suffer from mental disability.
If you sum up all the symptoms of this disease, you get the exact same picture of a vampire shown on TV. In France only in the 17th century 30 thousand people were declared werewolves according to the signs described by Illis. All of them were hanged. The Czech archeologists found the burying that dates back to the 11th century. There were 13 people lying with tied hands, chopped off heads and stakes in the chest.
Porphyria is not infective – it is an inherited disease. If one of the parents suffers from it, the child is 25 percent probable to inherit it. The reason for it can be hepatitis C, incest and excessive alcohol drinking.
They say that in the Middle Ages people that had porphyria were cured by blood, though it’s pointless as it doesn’t stanch pain. Today patients get blood-based injections. This disease though is neither examined nor cured.
Russian scientists don’t pay attention to this problem. In distinction from the West, we have neither qualified specialists, nor equipped medical centers to deal with this disease.
Translated by Lena Ksandinova
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