She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
Lord Byron's poem is a classic. Did someone special inspire it, and if so, who?
In Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast, there are several references to hunger, both physically and metaphorically.
There are so many sorts of hunger. In the spring there are more.
But that’s gone now. Memory is hunger.
It was a wonderful meal at Michaud’s after we got in; but ...
Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, the story of an American soldier fighting in the Spanish Civil War, a few years after his own experiences as an American journalist reporting on the Spanish Civil War. I know that various real-life figures appeared or were referred to in the novel, ...
In Balkan folklore, several words that originally meant werewolf (e.g. the Bulgarian vǎrkolak and the Serbian vulkodlak) either ended up being used for both creatures or for vampires alone (e.g the Greek word vrykolakas, a derivative of vǎrkolak). This - to me - suggests that the concept of the v...
Depending on what stories you read or movies you watch, vampires will and won't have reflections.
But what is the earliest reference to this particular myth and do we know it's origin?
Does there exist alternative names for vampires? Perhaps an euphemism; for example, in Harry Potter, those who feared Voldemort called him "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" in lieu of his real name. Or perhaps something like a true name.
Is there anything like this with vampires?
To clarify, I don't m...
Is the Mesopotamian goddess Lamashtu related to Dracula? I say yes because she would feed on the blood of young men and bring disease and darknesss wherever she went.
