Vampire 吸血鬼PPT

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The Features Do they attack the living ?
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Do they suck the blood?
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Countess Erzsé bet Bá thory (1560–1614) 巴托里伯爵夫人
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Erzsé bet Bá thory
She was a countess(伯爵夫人) from the enowned(著名的) Bá thory family of nobility(贵族) in the Kingdom of Hungary. After her husband’s death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, and is remembered as the “Blood Countess”.
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Baidu Nhomakorabea
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Long, sharp canines: Vampire usually use the teeth to cut into the victim's neck to draw blood - which has become one of the most important features of the vampire.
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Contagion(传染病)
When vampirism has been associated with clusters of deaths from unidentifiable or mysterious illnesses, like plague(瘟疫) and the Black Death from the 14th century, vampires seemed to be something that really exist. Because it was discovered that the body in the coffin(棺材) moved, and covered in blood.
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Blood is the most precious liquid, it is a symbol of life. So people often imagine that there is a kind of creature sucking people's blood for a living. The vampire we will say today is a product of European civilization.
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civilizations
There are many bloodsucking God in Ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Like Lamia, who is a mistress(情妇) of the god Zues, causing Zeus' jealous wife to kill all of Lamia's children and transform her into a monster that hunts children and young men and then feed on their blood.
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Contagion
Vampirism becomes popular again in Europe during the Plague in 1710. Even the authorities began to investigate the vampires. 1726, the official record said that a Serbian farmer turns into a vampire and killed people and animals in the village. And this record is in Archives(档案馆) of Vienna now. The existence of vampires is generally accepted in that period.
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They are not the god. They are not the devil. They are not the human beings. They love the blood. They can live till the end of the world.
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civilizations
In ancient Greek culture, the relation of blood and ghostdom is very wellrespected. Odysseus(奥德赛) in The Homeric Hymns(荷马史诗)mentioned that Greek soldier Ulysses used the blood to pay homage to(表达敬意) the heroic souls.
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Novel—Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic(哥特式) horror novel by Irish author Bram Stock. Although Dracula is a work of fiction, it does contain some historical references, Vlad III is the prototype (原型) of the novel. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Bela Lugosi as Dracula,1931
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The Features Are they the dead who return from the grave?
Bram Stoker
——The author of < Dracula >
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Novel—Dracula
In the novel, vampire is molded as a gentleman, who is smart, attractive, and can control human's thoughts. What’s more, in the novel Dracula has the ability to turn into a bat, and this capability is not available in the early legends. Dracula has been widely accepted as a vampire ancestor because of the success of this novel. Early vampire movies always take the novel as the foundation. And the feathers of vampires have been developed from this navel.
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Vlad III (1431–1476) Prince of wallachia 弗拉德三世
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Vlad III
Vlad III was known by his patronymic name: Dracula. He had defeated the invaders from the Ottoman Empire to save the country, and became a national hero. But he was also very cruel and loved blood. As the cognomen (绰号) 'The Impaler(穿刺公)' suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is central to his historical reputation.
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In our concept, they have the following features
They have no shadows: it belongs to the Germanic culture, in that area, people believe that vampires are without a shadow, the shadow and image are the symbol of the soul, and because vampires are without a soul, so they don't have shadow in the mirror.
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Stories
11th century, someone said they saw dead people wandering around in the cemetery. 1031, a bishop(主教) said a dead excommunicated Knight’s body had been found in different places far from the grave. Under the spread of these stories, it gradually formed the vampire prototype in British.
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Christianity
Christianity believes that man's death is the death of the body, the soul remains. Repentant sinner, suicide, or excommunicated(开除教籍) person has the suffering souls, which do not belong to this life and the afterlife. This is the basis of vampire legends.