Lecture/PowerPoint on the history of the vampire folk narrative, the appeal of the monster, and the psychological/sociological origins of the creature

1. VAMPIRES

2. WHEN YOU THINK
OF VAMPIRES
WHAT COMES TO
MIND?

3. 3:02
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

4. VAMPIRES ARE ABUNDANT IN POPULAR CULTURE...

5. WHY DO YOU
THINK VAMPIRES
ARE SO POPULAR
IN THE 21ST
CENTURY?

6. 5VAMPIRES IN POP-CULTURE AND LITERATURE
VAMPIRES ARE
POPULAR LITERARY
FIGURES BECAUSE
THEY HAVE A RICH
AND VARIED FOLKLORE
TODAY, VAMPIRES
HAVE BECOME HIGHLY
COMMERCIALIZED

7. 6SLAVIC ORIGINS OF VAMPIRES
VAMPIRES ARE DESCRIBED
AS REVENANTS OR HUMAN
CORPSES SAID TO RETURN
FROM THE GRAVE TO HARM
THE LIVING
MOST FAMOUS
VAMPIRE IS
BRAM STOKER’S
DRACULA
1897

8. 5:15
WHY MIGHT THE FIRST VAMPIRE STORIES
HAVE EMERGED IN THE BALKANS?

9. 8THE CHARACTERISTICS OF VAMPIRES
#1
#2
#3
SOME CAN TURN INTO BATS OR WOLVES
SOME CAST A REFLECTION
SOME ARE HURT OR KILLED
BY HOLY WATER AND
SUNLIGHT
VAMPIRES CAN BE CREATED
DUE TO A CURSE, COMMITTING
SUICIDE, OR BEING BITTEN BY
ANOTHER VAMPIRE
#4
VAMPIRE FOLKLORE DIFFERS ABOUT CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE MONSTER...

10. 9KILLING/DEFEATING A VAMPIRE
BOUNDING ITS COFFIN WITH CANES OF ROSES
#1
#2
STAKING VAMPIRE THROUGH CHEST
DECAPITATION
FOLKLORE ALSO VARIES ABOUT COMBATING AND
KILLING A VAMPIRE…
#3 STUFFING ITS MOUTH WITH GARLIC
#4 PLACING A NAIL UNDER ITS TONGUE
#5
#7 MUST BE INVITED INTO A HOME WHICH MAY
BE AN EARLY FORM OF “STRANGER DANGER”
#6 SPILLING SALT OR OTHER SMALL SEEDS

11. 10VAMPIRES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
CHINA
JIANGSHI IS AN EVIL SPIRIT WHICH
ATTACKS PEOPLE & DRAINS LIFE ENERGY
WORLD CULTURES HAVE VAMPIRE-LIKE CREATURES...
TIBET
BLOOD-DRINKING
DEITIES ARE IN THE
“BOOK OF THE DEAD”
TRINIDAD
SOUCOUYANT IS AN OLD
WOMAN WHO NOURISHES
HERSELF ON A DONOR’S BLOOD
MAYA
WINGED DEMON WHICH MUST BE
IMPALED TO BE KILLED

12. 14:45
WHAT’RE YOUR THOUGHTS OF DRACULA?

13. 12REAL VAMPIRES?
MANY SELF-IDENTIFIED
VAMPIRES EXIST WHO
PARTICIPATE IN GOTHIC-
INSPIRED SUBCULTURESVAMPIRIC ANIMALS DO
EXIST, LIKE LEECHES,
LAMPREYS, AND
VAMPIRE BATS

14. 2:41
HOW HAS HOLLYWOOD’S EROTICIZATION OF
THE VAMPIRE CHANGED THE MONSTER?

15. 14THE “ORIGINS” OF VAMPIRES
FOLKLORISTS ARGUE VAMPIRES...
#1
#2
#3
ARE POPULAR TODAY DUE TO
MEDIA APPEAL
AROSE TO EXPLAIN RABIES
STEMS FROM
PORPHYRIA
WERE BORN OUT OF A FEAR OF
THE DEAD
#4
FUNCTIONED AS A SCAPEGOAT
FOR SOCIETAL EVILS
#5

16. DO YOU THINK
PEOPLE STILL
BELIEVE IN
VAMPIRES?

17. 16THE LAFAYETTE VAMPIRE
THE LAFAYETTE VAMPIRE
COLORADO
FODOR GLAVA IS SAID TO
HAVE BEEN A VAMPIRE,
AND NOW BLOOD-RED ROSES
GROW NEAR HIS GRAVE
LAFAYETTE WAS A
BUSTLING MINING TOWN
ATTRACTING MEN FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD
LATE 1800S

18. 2:37
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS
ALLEGED VAMPIRE ENCOUNTER?

19. WHAT ROLE DO YOU
THINK MEDIA, FILMS,
AND TELEVISION
PLAY IN THE BELIEF
IN VAMPIRES?

20. NEXT CLASS:
WEREWOLVES
HOMEWORK: NONE