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Oh oh.. I gotta reply to that.. *jumps up and down all impatiently*

Vampires aren't immortal in the sense gods are and can be killed, at least, in most legend that is the case.

Vampires having children.. we actually worked out that if the vampire in question fed on a female victim whilst she was ovulating and they were having sex at the time, the female vampire stood a chance to fall pregnant due to the correct hormones being in her blood stream. Of course, this would also need a male to be around at the same time to impregnate the female.. threesome smile

Vampires, to me, are sex symbols if they were such before becoming vampires.

And lastly.. the church thing and faith.. And this is purely based on my own writing in this regard. I left the traditional churches with their pretty buildings as holy ground and something that compelled vampires away from it, though the same cannot be said for the more modern churches which meet in school halls and other buildings built within the last 50 odd years.

The cross itself has the same power as holy ground, though I do agree that personal faith does augment that power.

Vampires are NOT demons nor are they possessed by demons unlike general believe. You simply cannot change a human being into a demon, especially given the theory that demons are fallen angels and there only exists a certain amount of angels. Also, a demon possessed person reacts much differently to your standard vampire and, from a vampires point of view, they would know if they were possessed or not.

I had a good time writing a scene with a vampire in church, and the dear old lady who tried to cast out the demon in him biggrin

I must agree with faith augmenting the person's strength, though. If you read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King it gives the perfect example of such. When dueling against a vampire, the priest held his cross to weaken him. As he did this, the vampire took a child as a hostage. He told the priest that he would let go of the boy if he would test his own faith and throw away his cross. Agreeing, the vampire released the boy; yet the priest still held onto the crucifix, thus going back on his word and sinning. This ultimately meant that his faith had been weakened by doubt and thus the vampire was able to destroy the cross and force the priest into exile.

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Oh, yeah. Richard Matheson brought up a good point as well. He believed that a human-turned-vampire actually had to be religious in order for the symbol to work. He said that if the dead were to come back, they would drive themselves mad believing they were a sin to the god that created them. When Robert Neville, the main character, tried to hold the cross in front of a vampire, the creature merely scoffed at it. However, when shown the Torah, the Jewish Manuscript, the vampire became so belligerent that it broke the restraints set upon it. Thus one could tell that he was Jewish before he died.

What I do not understand is the naturally running water bit. Why can vampires not cross it? Is it because it's Kosher?

Meh, I can start a thread on whatever I want it to be about. As long as it discusses writing.
Don't like vampires? Then don't jump in the thread if you don't have anything to discuss about this topic and learn some tolerance for us vampire lovers.

This is funny to me because I recently finished a report on vampires.

In all actuality, vampires have, to some extent, always had erotic connotations. When Johnathan Harker meets the wives in Dracula (Bram Stoker) he looks upon them as sexually pleasing entities.

To Kenji: I, too, enjoy the Twilight series.

Kenji-San 66, oh my we're upset aren't we? Oh, and next time do us the favour and make sure we can read your post if you want us to take you serious. Tiny font = ignore.


Xeraphem, from memory, running water symbolises purity and purity is something vampires can't cope with. Same reason they have problems with churches really just not religious.

So again, they are left to realize that they internally feel like an abomination? Why else could the not stand purity unless a part of them believed themselves to be something unclean? Ugh, I'm making my brain bleed. gonk