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#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction
Category: Education
Duration: 00:21:30
Publish Date: 2022-10-27 22:00:00
Description:

For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.

But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, biological explanation for it all?

  • The start of Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • The fundamental characteristics of vampires
  • Vampires in ancient European folklore
  • Why people might have thought vampires needed to drink blood
  • Vampires being blamed for the plague
  • The Great Vampire Epidemic
  • The story of Petar Blagojević
  • John Polidori’s The Vampyre
  • Vampires & Vlad The Impaler
  • Vampires on film
  • Modern vampires
Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires

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