Tracing the Origins of Vampirism
To trace back to the origins of vampirism we must travel back in time to an era that pre-dates Christianity by over a thousand years. Druids are said to have believed that two of their major Gods of the Harvest were banished into the flames of the sun and destroyed, later to return as vampires.
From this point in time onwards any would be researcher must persist in a journey through an impenetrable fog of fantasy, fiction, folk lore and myths if he or she is to find anything that even resembles a satisfactory answer, let alone a plausible conclusion to this centuries old mystery. This article does little more than scratch the surface; many more generations of intrepid investigators need to sift out the facts from the fiction.
The purpose of my article is not to foolishly claim I have any answers that warrant credulity in any sense, but to present some of the documented theories into the open …