Title: Vampires! The Children of the Night. ![]() • What music they make! 2 Vampires • Vampires have their origins in ancient legends about death and resurrection • Ancient Egyptian legends talk of the resurrection of Horus, and describe the means of his re-animation. • Modern vampire legends come to us from the Balkans. 3 Land of the undead • Slavic peoples begin migrating into the Balkan region in the 7th and 8th centuries, from other parts of eastern Europe. Announce your Halloween bash with this creepy invitation. A vampire bat is framed with an ornate scroll. Change the wording yourself at home, or have us do it for you. Welcome trick-or-treaters in hair-raising style by turning your front porch into a bat cave with just our template, thick black paper, and painters' tape. More Microsoft Vampire Bat Template images. Bat Vampire Template from Bats Templates category. Hundreds of free printable papercraft templates of origami, cut out paper dolls, stickers, collages, notes. • They bring with them traditions and folklore about unclean spirits, revenants and sacrificial ceremonies. • They encounter Christianity and urban civilization in the form of the Byzantine Empire. George and the Dragon 5 Condemning the Pagan • The Orthodox Church is established in the Balkans, and earlier customs are condemned as the work of the devil. • Some peasants are accused of continuing ancient practices, or of being in league with the dark arts 6 Undead or just sick? • In part, vampire legends come from notions about diseases. Lacking a germ theory, peasants speculate that a disease that slowly stalks several villagers is the work of a single evil agent the vampire. • The Greek notion of the vampire, or vyrkolakos, is of an evil spirit inhabiting dead bodies that refuse to decompose. 7 Watch out Linus! • Gypsy legends of this region tell of parasitical forces at work in the garden. Vampire cucumbers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Squashes, beets and other vegetables come alive at night to feast on their brethren! • Great Pumpkin or Dracula? 8 Vlad the Impaler • In 1453, Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Mehmet II. • Christian resistance against the Ottoman advance is led by Wallachian and Hungarian lords. • Vlad Dracul, also known as The Dragon or Vlad the Impaler, rules from 1462 to 1476, and uses unspeakable cruelty against the invading Turk. 9 The Charmer • Does his power to • terrorize come from a • blend of cultures and a • mix of civilization and • savagery? How far • are we from Vlad? 10 Vlad the Impaler Not so nice! • It is said that Vlad lived among the Ottomans for a time, and learned cruel customs like impalement from them. • He may have murdered as many as 50,000 of his own people in campaigns against the Turks. • His reputation lived on after his death 11 (No Transcript) 12 Literature • In 1819, John Polidori publishes The Vampyre, the first popular vampire novel. Polidori was Lord Byrons personal physician! • Polidori wrote The Vampyre after spending a holiday with Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein • In 1897, Bram Stoker writes Dracula, the definitive vampire novel. 13 • Conjure up your • deepest, darkest • fear now call • That fear to life 14 The Romantic Vampire • Does the vampire fear • well up from the same • Romantic sources as the • works of Shelley and • Byron? 15 The rules of the vampire • Fear of sunlight • The cross • The stake • Burning • Garlic • Hospitality 16 Powers • Shape-changing • Command of night creatures • Mesmerism • The bite of the vampire • Blood drinking 17 Nosferatu, 1922 18 The Unknown • Western civilization tends to fear that which is unknown. • The vampire is a convenient symbol for that which we fear. We imprint all kinds of fears into this form. • For example, Nazi imagery is full of vampire references 19 Midnight Visitors. PowerShow.com is a leading presentation/slideshow sharing website. Whether your application is business, how-to, education, medicine, school, church, sales, marketing, online training or just for fun, PowerShow.com is a great resource. And, best of all, most of its cool features are free and easy to use. You can use PowerShow.com to find and download example online PowerPoint ppt presentations on just about any topic you can imagine so you can learn how to improve your own slides and presentations for free. Or use it to find and download high-quality how-to PowerPoint ppt presentations with illustrated or animated slides that will teach you how to do something new, also for free.
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