Vampires From Around the World
door Stephanie Moore
A vampire is a blood-sucking, undead thing of the night that comes after people in their nightmares. Many cultures have vampire myths. In the past, folklore was a means of explaining what people didn’t understand. Widespread vampire mythology reflects the uncertainty about death that we all face.
People in the past had little understanding of the decomposition process.If an exhumed body looked “plump”, how did they know it was the natural result of gases in the body? To them, blood leaking from a corpse’s mouth meant that the dear departed had been feeding.
It must have been a disturbing sight.
Africa
In Southern Ghana, the Ashanti people tell of the the sasabonsam of asanbosam, which drinks human blood and clings to the branches of trees with iron talons. Another African vampire myth is that of the adze, a creature that takes the form of a firefly and sucks human blood. After it sucks their blood, the victim falls ill and dies. This myth is probably based on malaria infested mosquitos. Myths about the adze belong to the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo.
The Americas
In Trinidad, the soucouyant is an old woman who lives on the edges of villages. At night, she pulls off her wrinkled skin and puts it in a mortar for safe-keeping. She flies through the night in the form of a fireball and sucks the blood of human victims. If u need to get rid of a soucouyant, u have to find the mortar with the old woman’s skin and sprinkle coarse salt on it. Then, she can’t put it back on.
In Chile, the Mapuche fear the peuchen. In Aztec mythology, your life force could be sucked out door the souls of those who lost their life in childbirth. In the United States, the most recent documented vampire killing involved the corpse of young Mercy Brown.
In 1892, nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown died of tuberculosis. Soon after her death, her younger brother contracted the disease. Believing that the child’s illness was caused door the undead Mercy, her father, along with people from their small Rhode Island town, exhumed the girl’s body.Allegedly, the body had changed position and the corpse still had blood in its heart. They took her hart-, hart and burned it, mixing the ashes with water for her little brother to drink. Sadly, the child died anyway.
Asia
When in China, beware of the jiang-shi, which is a corpse whose soul hasn’t left its body. Jiang-shi suck out your life force (also known as chi). They are zei to have greenish, furry skin, a detail that probably comes from the sight of mold growing on a corpse.
The Phillipines has two malignant vampires. One is the blood-sucker (mandurugo in Tagalog), which looks like a beautiful woman but has wings and a long thin tongue that she uses to slurp people’s blood while they sleep. The other vampire variety is called a manananggal and can spleet, split herself in half at the torso. She flies around in the night sucking fetuses out of pregnant women.
Europe
Vampire hysteria has swept Europe at various times in history. Eastern Europe is the home pagina of Dracula- the place where the modern Western concept of the vampire originated. In Greece, they fear the vrykolakas. In fact, the vrykolakas was so feared that people sometimes took preventive measures.
Three years after death, they would exhume the bodies of their loved ones. The remains would be placed in a box and a priest would read from the scripture. If, however, the dead looked “undead”, it would be dealt with. Vrykolakas were often dispatched with an iron stake to the heart.
The Romani people tell of the mullo (”one who is dead”). They believed that female vampires could look like normal women but would wear their husbands out with their sexual appetites. The children of male vampires were called dhampirs.
Fear of vampires originates with the fear of death. Our ancestors had a lot of contact with the dead and some of the things that we now understand were completely unknown to them. This is why vampire myths are so widespread. It is a scary thing to be reminded of your own mortality.
door Stephanie Moore
A vampire is a blood-sucking, undead thing of the night that comes after people in their nightmares. Many cultures have vampire myths. In the past, folklore was a means of explaining what people didn’t understand. Widespread vampire mythology reflects the uncertainty about death that we all face.
People in the past had little understanding of the decomposition process.If an exhumed body looked “plump”, how did they know it was the natural result of gases in the body? To them, blood leaking from a corpse’s mouth meant that the dear departed had been feeding.
It must have been a disturbing sight.
Africa
In Southern Ghana, the Ashanti people tell of the the sasabonsam of asanbosam, which drinks human blood and clings to the branches of trees with iron talons. Another African vampire myth is that of the adze, a creature that takes the form of a firefly and sucks human blood. After it sucks their blood, the victim falls ill and dies. This myth is probably based on malaria infested mosquitos. Myths about the adze belong to the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo.
The Americas
In Trinidad, the soucouyant is an old woman who lives on the edges of villages. At night, she pulls off her wrinkled skin and puts it in a mortar for safe-keeping. She flies through the night in the form of a fireball and sucks the blood of human victims. If u need to get rid of a soucouyant, u have to find the mortar with the old woman’s skin and sprinkle coarse salt on it. Then, she can’t put it back on.
In Chile, the Mapuche fear the peuchen. In Aztec mythology, your life force could be sucked out door the souls of those who lost their life in childbirth. In the United States, the most recent documented vampire killing involved the corpse of young Mercy Brown.
In 1892, nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown died of tuberculosis. Soon after her death, her younger brother contracted the disease. Believing that the child’s illness was caused door the undead Mercy, her father, along with people from their small Rhode Island town, exhumed the girl’s body.Allegedly, the body had changed position and the corpse still had blood in its heart. They took her hart-, hart and burned it, mixing the ashes with water for her little brother to drink. Sadly, the child died anyway.
Asia
When in China, beware of the jiang-shi, which is a corpse whose soul hasn’t left its body. Jiang-shi suck out your life force (also known as chi). They are zei to have greenish, furry skin, a detail that probably comes from the sight of mold growing on a corpse.
The Phillipines has two malignant vampires. One is the blood-sucker (mandurugo in Tagalog), which looks like a beautiful woman but has wings and a long thin tongue that she uses to slurp people’s blood while they sleep. The other vampire variety is called a manananggal and can spleet, split herself in half at the torso. She flies around in the night sucking fetuses out of pregnant women.
Europe
Vampire hysteria has swept Europe at various times in history. Eastern Europe is the home pagina of Dracula- the place where the modern Western concept of the vampire originated. In Greece, they fear the vrykolakas. In fact, the vrykolakas was so feared that people sometimes took preventive measures.
Three years after death, they would exhume the bodies of their loved ones. The remains would be placed in a box and a priest would read from the scripture. If, however, the dead looked “undead”, it would be dealt with. Vrykolakas were often dispatched with an iron stake to the heart.
The Romani people tell of the mullo (”one who is dead”). They believed that female vampires could look like normal women but would wear their husbands out with their sexual appetites. The children of male vampires were called dhampirs.
Fear of vampires originates with the fear of death. Our ancestors had a lot of contact with the dead and some of the things that we now understand were completely unknown to them. This is why vampire myths are so widespread. It is a scary thing to be reminded of your own mortality.
Ashley:Okay,lets see there's,a four jaar old Amber,
A 12 jaar old Kennedy,A 5 jaar old Harper,And then there's 9 jaar old Zack.Some job*Hears screaming*
Amber:HARPER!GET OUT!!!NOW!!!
Harper:Fine!*Takes Dolls*Hope ya don't need your Dollies!*Runs*
Amber:HARPER STOP IT!!!!I WILL PERSONALLY KILL YOU!
Ashley:STOP IT!!*Stops Harper*Harper!Give Amber her dolls back.
Harper:FINE!!*Throws Dolls*I HATE EVERYTHING!!!
Ashley:Okay.Amber,Do u want something to eat?
Amber:Yes!Can I have a waffle?
Ashley:Sure!*Goes In kitchen*Waffles...waffles,Oh!
here we go,Okay Egos!Put in tosti apparaat, broodrooster for half a minute.
*Ten minuten later*
Kennedy:Hey Ashley!Do u know who you're working for?
Ashley:Uh Darrel And Amy?
Kennedy:Well yes but,They're also BILLIONAIRES!They picked u as the Babysitter cause u have 7 siblings and u all ways babysat them.
Ashley:So your telling me that...I'M WORKING FOR BILLIONAIRES!!??
Kennedy:*Rolls eyes*Yes...Yes that is what I meant!
A 12 jaar old Kennedy,A 5 jaar old Harper,And then there's 9 jaar old Zack.Some job*Hears screaming*
Amber:HARPER!GET OUT!!!NOW!!!
Harper:Fine!*Takes Dolls*Hope ya don't need your Dollies!*Runs*
Amber:HARPER STOP IT!!!!I WILL PERSONALLY KILL YOU!
Ashley:STOP IT!!*Stops Harper*Harper!Give Amber her dolls back.
Harper:FINE!!*Throws Dolls*I HATE EVERYTHING!!!
Ashley:Okay.Amber,Do u want something to eat?
Amber:Yes!Can I have a waffle?
Ashley:Sure!*Goes In kitchen*Waffles...waffles,Oh!
here we go,Okay Egos!Put in tosti apparaat, broodrooster for half a minute.
*Ten minuten later*
Kennedy:Hey Ashley!Do u know who you're working for?
Ashley:Uh Darrel And Amy?
Kennedy:Well yes but,They're also BILLIONAIRES!They picked u as the Babysitter cause u have 7 siblings and u all ways babysat them.
Ashley:So your telling me that...I'M WORKING FOR BILLIONAIRES!!??
Kennedy:*Rolls eyes*Yes...Yes that is what I meant!
1. u grind your coffee beans in your mouth.
2. The only time you’re standing still is during an earthquake.
3. u take foto's of yourself from ten feet away without using your camera’s auto-timer.
4. Your eyes stay open when u sneeze.
5. u don’t even wait for the water to boil anymore.
6. You’re elected "Employee of the Month" at Starbucks and u don’t even work there.
7. u spend every vacation visiting "Maxwell House."
8. Your cats are named "Cream" and "Sugar."
9. u can’t even remember your seconde cup.
10. u can jump-start your car without cables.
*** I didn't write this. i got it from link
i thought it was funny and wanted to share it***
2. The only time you’re standing still is during an earthquake.
3. u take foto's of yourself from ten feet away without using your camera’s auto-timer.
4. Your eyes stay open when u sneeze.
5. u don’t even wait for the water to boil anymore.
6. You’re elected "Employee of the Month" at Starbucks and u don’t even work there.
7. u spend every vacation visiting "Maxwell House."
8. Your cats are named "Cream" and "Sugar."
9. u can’t even remember your seconde cup.
10. u can jump-start your car without cables.
*** I didn't write this. i got it from link
i thought it was funny and wanted to share it***
Yes indeed, Rebecca has become famous thanks to her annoying song Friday and has got a record deal for a Cd with five meer songs, can u believe it? :/
Rebecca, is known-for and hated for “Friday”, she has even zei that she doesn't like the song....we're not sure we believe that.
So on her volgende CD Rebecca promises to have a meer natural sound than in Friday, and that she, at least, will like her songs....it's amazing how much power the Internet has! It makes and breaks stars.
source: europapress
I was walking home pagina from walmart when a carrot fell from the sky and started talking to me then an air raid siren went off and flying pigs were dropping sausage rolls that blew up into smiley faces when they hit the ground then a walvis drove door in his sedan and zei happy Halloween to me then micheal Jackson did the moonwalk on the moon with a cow.
I was like wow I went home pagina and played wit my xbox, PIE!
And a cat grew a vis tail and swam away from a basketball
Watch out CHAINSAW MONKEY!
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I was like wow I went home pagina and played wit my xbox, PIE!
And a cat grew a vis tail and swam away from a basketball
Watch out CHAINSAW MONKEY!
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Hi everyone this is the Invader Calliope show!
Time to talk about stuff!
Ok here are two perfect things that i love! Invader Zim and Anime!!
Ok i'm on team and L then Mellow then Near!
I do love Misa though!
I love rijst balls!
Oh my fave number is 37!
I'm using my laptop!
I love my cat!
I am feeling happy today!
I enjoy sweets!
I don't eat to much sweets i do eat my vegetables!
I love the colors: limoen, kalk Green,Dark Purple,Cyber Blue,and Black!
I love the Invader Zim sound track and the amazing singer gir!
Time to talk about stuff!
Ok here are two perfect things that i love! Invader Zim and Anime!!
Ok i'm on team and L then Mellow then Near!
I do love Misa though!
I love rijst balls!
Oh my fave number is 37!
I'm using my laptop!
I love my cat!
I am feeling happy today!
I enjoy sweets!
I don't eat to much sweets i do eat my vegetables!
I love the colors: limoen, kalk Green,Dark Purple,Cyber Blue,and Black!
I love the Invader Zim sound track and the amazing singer gir!
Miss Carey: Here are your costumes for the play children. Come and see!
Ed: Is it my costume?
Miss Carey: Yes, it is.
Mady: Is this my dress? It's pretty.
Nicki: Here's my own zwaan-, zwaan costume. Look at my oranje beak.
Miss Carey: You're the ugly duckling, Allex. Here u are.
Allex: Thank you, Miss Carey.
Nicki: Let's put on our costumes!
Mady: Oh no! Look at my dress! It's much too lond.
Ed: My hat is too small. I look tidiculous.
Allex: I look meer ridiculous than you. Look at my feet!
Miss Carey: Oh dear! Theey're much too big!
Nicki: And I haven't got any wings!
Ed: This play is a disaster!
Mady: First we've got thousands of scripts.
Allex: And now our costumes don't fit.
Nicki: What's next?
Ed: Is it my costume?
Miss Carey: Yes, it is.
Mady: Is this my dress? It's pretty.
Nicki: Here's my own zwaan-, zwaan costume. Look at my oranje beak.
Miss Carey: You're the ugly duckling, Allex. Here u are.
Allex: Thank you, Miss Carey.
Nicki: Let's put on our costumes!
Mady: Oh no! Look at my dress! It's much too lond.
Ed: My hat is too small. I look tidiculous.
Allex: I look meer ridiculous than you. Look at my feet!
Miss Carey: Oh dear! Theey're much too big!
Nicki: And I haven't got any wings!
Ed: This play is a disaster!
Mady: First we've got thousands of scripts.
Allex: And now our costumes don't fit.
Nicki: What's next?
The key is in how the relationship has ended. It's important that there is no anger and no one has cheated. If this is true for u then it is meer than possible that with a little time u two can go back to being friends.
vrienden and just friends. u must be clear about what u want. Sometimes when we pretend to want to be vrienden with our ex, we are really looking to get back together. Sometimes this is what u want and it works, but if it goes wrong then things will be even worse.
Give him space. If after some time apart u still want to continue to spend time together without wanting to be a couple, then u are ready to be vrienden again!
-source: justjared T.V show<>