The Evolution of Vampires in Literature
The long and bloody history of vampires commenced through the European folklore in 1700s. It all rooted by the craze attack of vampires in Serbian countryside and generated some victims who made confession before they suddenly died within days. They stated that their relatives or neighbors who just died haunt them in the night and then strangled them afterward . This odd phenomenon encouraged townspeople to digging the graves of people who suspected as vampires, and then it all proved by the sign of corpses with blood in their mouth. Throughout this entire precarious situation, Heinrich August Ossenfelder recited the first poems about this horrific creature in 1748 known as “The Vampire”. Heinrich brought a horror theme about the return of dead person to take revenge for their enemy in the night by drinking their blood and bring them to death. The Serbian town-talk scattered abroad as a gothic fiction which took role over the ...