Vampirism and Vampyrism

Description of Vampires:

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Notes about vampires, vampyres and the difference between them:

As stated elsewhere in this section, we use the term "vampire," as to refer to imaginary mythical creatures who mainly inhabit ancient religious myths, horror movies and other works of imaginative fiction. They are generally portrayed as once dead, reanimated, blood-sucking human corpses. They are very scary individuals. Fortunately, they don't exist in reality. Their existence and attributes are largely based on ancient religious myth.

We use the term "vampyres" to refer to a real phenomenon involving real people. This notation is fairly commonly used in the vampyre community, but its use is far from a consensus.

References used:

The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.

1. "Vampire," Wikipedia, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/
2. J. Gordon Melton, "The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the undead," Visible Ink Press, (1999). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store

Copyright © 2005 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally posted: 2005-OCT-25
Latest update: 2005-OCT-26
Author: B.A. Robinson