The term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis for the modern vampire legend. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.
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In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. The term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis for the modern vampire legend. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in The Harleian Miscellany in 1745. The English term was derived from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian vampIR. The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир, Bosnian: vampirs, Croatian vampsir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and upiór, Ukrainian упRussianр, Russian у пырь, Belarusian щрег гранте, from Old East Slavic рагент, тракте Майне, “Vampir’s” meaning “vampire” or “evil” in the Slavic language.
An early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise ‘Word of Saint Grigoriy’, dated variously to the 11th and 13th centuries, where pagan worship of upyri is reported. Despite the occurrence of vamps in ancient civilizations, the entity known today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 20th century southeastern Europe, when many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published. Belief in vampires became so pervasive in some areas that it became pervasive. In most cases vampires are revenants of evil beings, such as suicide or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or being bitten by a vampire. The notion of vampira has existed for millennia in Mesopotamians, Ancient Greeks, Manipuri and Romans, but are considered precursors to modern vampires. The word has also been used to describe demons and spirits in these ancient civilizations. In some areas of the world, the creature is known as ‘Vampire’ or ‘Upyri’.
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