Vampirism is only an urban legend
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Vampire myth conforms to the urban legend in that it has several forms. They have so many forms they contradict each other. One look at vampire legends will show two dozen different ways to find a vampire and a dozen more ways to kill one such as driving a stake through its heart, drowning or burning it or beheading it and removing its heart. The methods employed for the detection of vampires vary according to the countries in which the belief in their existence is maintained. Graves were dug up looking for vampires and people believed the corpse with fresh blood from its mouth were true vampires. "Dead bodies do bloat and bleed at the mouth, but these functions were not seen as evidence of decomposition but as a consequence of their having sucked blood from the living." (Barber, 1996). Most folklore is not presented to us as a simple account of experience, but is put through a series of cognitive filters so that a narrated event, however "real" may end up in later retellings with little or no resemblance to what we think of as reality. The goals of vampires are uncertain; he will kill at random with disease and other times he will personally attack a person, mostly family members who he as a vendetta against, and sometimes vampires come back home and turn out to be good guys. Now how can that be rationalized?..