They’re wrong about garlic though
That’s just a common misconception
… but they’re right about that little zesty metallic zing of blood.
In small amounts, of course.
#(accidental vampire by way of martial arts and literally developing a taste for my own blood)
And personal space
I mean, the ideas that made people write books about vampires had to come from somewhere, and it’s not like neurodivergent behaviours are new.
It’s not that we are like vampires… it’s that vampires are like us.
I always thought of old vampire stories as a dig on the castle dwellers.
Well, partially a dig on the “weird” “creepy” people that inherited a castle and either rarely or never left it. But also a bunch of generic "other"ing was bundled into it too. Similar to witches, just the poorer, femaler version of “doesn’t want to participate in society”(I mean the broad strokes of an older woman living out in a hut in the woods with her cat, is actually a pretty normal and understandable thing)… people still make up all kinds of scary versions of who the neighbourhood shut-in must be, and why they don’t leave their house. What kinds of scary things those people must be up to.
It’s all the same stuff, shut-ins are just on the internet now, so we talk to other people now. But our behaviours haven’t changed.
No lol. I meant castle and not hut. It’s the inheritance, not the inside.
It’s partly due to our understanding of diseases (or lack thereof). Corpses seemed to grow teeth as the skin shrunk, some forms of blood infestation had people avoiding garlic and sunlight. Rabies had people avoid water and a tendency to bite while they became pale, drained over time.
