While contemporary popular culture tends to point toward Transylvania as the seat and heart of the vampiric myth, most scientists today agree that the concept of the vampire came to Western culture ...

The discovery of an unusual "vampire" burial in Croatia shows the endurance of such beliefs in eastern medieval Europe, according to researchers. "We know that in many Slavic countries ...

Seven Vlads were born in 1995, its first occurrence. At its peak, 26 were born in 2004, the year Dominican-born baseball right fielder Vladimir Guerrero was the American League’s Most Valuable Player.

There has been vampire frenzy vampire hunts and large-scale disasters attributed to the work of vampires Sorensen talks about the features that made the Slavic people and other early societies ...

According to many Slavic traditions, a vampire is an undead being that rises from the grave to drink blood and take its life force from the living. The vampire's victims might then become undead ...