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bul1etsg3rard t1_jcp3jy2 wrote

Reply to comment by Gumnutbaby in Roman tomb reveals burnt remains left in place, covered by bricks, sealed with lime, encircled by bent and broken nails — rites to restrain the dead from rising by marketrent

Bro you know when Dracula was published right? That wasn't even close to the first thought anyone had about vampires

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Archangel289 t1_jcppkhq wrote

What’s amused me before is that Latin has been a dead language for probably more than 1,000 years, and it has a word that directly translates to “vampire.”

The “urban legends” of them have been around for a long time, even if our modern interpretation of them—suave, sophisticated aristocrats and the like—is different

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