Witches
Also in this section - everything you need to know about Witches.
Over the centuries there have been many stories about the existence of Vampires. These have been brought to life by Bram Stoker's Dracula, and films like Nosferatu, the Hammer horror films that will always be associated with Christopher Lee and later the Lost Boys and Dusk to Dawn.
Psychic Vampires
Whether you believe in blood sucking vampires or not, there are true vampires, but they do not suck blood they suck energy. Haven't you been in peoples company and felt very tired and drained and can't wait to get away from them. People, who are psychic vampires walk away feeling great while they leave you feeling terrible, so beware, it could be anyone and they are alive and walk in the daylight. So people who are psychic vampires don't always know that's what they are, but they are sucking the life force from you anyway. You could be one!!!!!
The following are just a few of those stories.
Robert the Bruce
In the 14th century Robert the Bruce, the King of Scotland visited a local lord. While he was there a local man was brought before the Lord for poaching. The Lord sentenced him to death but the King requested that the poacher be pardoned. The King then left the region and the Lord then went back on his word and re-arrested and executed the man. From then on the man then became a walking corpse. The man not only drank the blood from those he met but also spread a virulent plague. Churchmen were brought in to deal with the problem and lay the body to rest, but they were not successful. In the end the King got to hear about the problem, and he returned the region and punished the Lord for what he had done. Robert the Bruce then ordered the body to be exhumed from his grave cut into pieces and burned. The corpse never bothered the region again.
Abhartach
There is a legend that in the 5th or 6th century in County Derry, Ireland, there was a ruler called Abhartach. He was a small, possibly deformed man who was a tyrannical monarch, but was also said to be a mighty magician. He was hated by his subjects but were frightened to kill him because of his magical abilities. They asked another Chieftain from a neighbouring Kingdom named Cathain to kill the tyrant. He killed Abhartach and buried him standing up as fitting a Celtic Chieftain, but the next day he turned up demanding a bowl of blood from the wrists of his subjects. Cathain came again and killed him but the next day Abhartach walked again, and demand the same blood gift. Cathain then consulted the druids and was told that Abhartach was not dead but not completely alive due to his magical powers. The druids informed Cathain that the only way to deal with the walking dead was to kill him with a sword made from a yew tree, bury him upside down, place thorns around him and a great stone on top of him. Cathain did all of this and built a sepulchre over the site of his grave and this solved the problem. It is suggested that the Chieftain Abhartach was the prototype for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Fairies
From the Western Isles of the Hebrides there was a belief that fairies drank the blood and milk of the cows. These sprites were often attached to the prehistoric graves and the creatures known as glestigs often inhabited the ruins of castles and abbeys. They would lure in a passer-by and attack them and drink their blood.
Prince Fabrizio Massimo
In 1583 the fourteen-year-old son of Prince Fabrizio Massimo died of an unexplained fever. After he was buried the son was seen again and each time it was associated with an outbreak of sickness and plague in the city. Although the young man did not drink blood his visits to the city always brought death. The city became worried about the visitations from the son, so a holy man, St. Philip Neri, summoned his parents. The holy man visited the boy's tomb and opened it, and found his corpse in a perfect conditioned. St. Philip laid his hand on the boy's head and the boy sat up and opened his eyes.
"Are you unwilling to die?" asked the holy man.
"No," replied the boy.
"Are you resigned to yield up your soul?" continued St. Philip.
"I am," he answered.
"Then go!" commanded the holy man and he blessed the boy, who then fell back with a serene look on his face. The boy was not seen again and the plague never again visited the city.
Isaac Burton
In the naval officer Isaac Burton watched his wife Rachel die. A little while after she died he fell in love and married a local girl called Hulda Powell. A year after their wedding Hulda started to become sick, with the same sickness that had taken Isaac's previous wife. Hulda claimed that in her dreams she had met with Rachel. The town fathers and the local clergy had a meeting and decided that Rachel was draining Hulda of energy from the other side, so they decided to exhume her body. They found that even though she had been buried for over a year the body was found to be remarkably fresh. Rachel's body was ritually burned but in 1793 Hulda Burton died, seemingly from being drained by Isaac's ex-wife from beyond the grave.