Talk:Vampire/@comment-12776-20141020172130

Fun fact. MGE vampire, like most of fictional vampire, is based on Gotic Vampire, popularized by works such as Dracula...and has very little in common with European folklore vampire.

The European vampires alway look like dead person, sometime a very fresh corpse, but cannot pass for the living. Although they are not active during day, they are not harmed by daylight. Their teeth and claws are sharp, because they don't suck blood like vampire bat, but rip open a victim's throat and gorge themselves on blood. Some of them eat other things in addition to human blood, such as liver, hearts, and even fish. When they are not active they rest in their graves, which they are able to enter and leave without disturbing the soil around them.

In short, folklore vampire is closer to modern depiction of zombie than voodoo zombie is. They are not regal, sophisticated or charming. So if you ever hear fictional vampire lament how his kin "sink so low", it mean he just has no idea what they were at first (unless it's comment toward "sparkling vampire", that one deserve every kind o mockery ;)).