#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction

 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 DraculaThe fundamental characteristics of vampiresVampires in ancient European folkloreWhy people might have thought vampires needed to drink bloodVampires being blamed for the plagueThe Great Vampire EpidemicThe story of Petar BlagojevićJohn Polidori’s The VampyreVampires & Vlad The ImpalerVampires on filmModern vampiresFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires
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