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Nov 3, 1456
Vlad Tepes
His father being Vlad Dracula, gave the impression that Vlad was a vampire himself for during his reign of Transylvania, aquired cruel and disturbing ways of murdering his vitcims. he aslo believed that drinking the blood from his victims would give him their power or strength. -
Elizabeth Bathory
Considered to be a vampire of her time, was growing old and looked her age. Through some insight from "Wizards", she had the idea that she could remain looking youthful by not only consuming the blood of a young female virgin, aswell as bathing in it. -
Vampire Hysteria in East Prussia
Multiple accounts of people dying from sudden illness and seeing supposed abirition of a previously deceased person who may have been suspecting of being different or not socially accepted. -
Change in the word
The word "vampyre" enters the English language in translations of German accounts of European waves of vampire hysteria. -
Fritz Harmann
known as "The Vampire of Hanover" would allure people in and attack them by biting the necks of the victims.