| Vampire folklore is numerous throughout our history. | | | | unlocked them, scoring marks were discovered on the |
| Some myths date back as far as the 12th century. It is | | | | interior, leading townspeople to ascertain that vampires |
| feasible that these original myths of vampires were | | | | were attempting to escape from their coffins. |
| spawned by genuine medical circumstances. | | | | Anemia |
| Porphyria | | | | Anemia is a condition characterized by blood that |
| There are several kinds of porphyria. Four of the kinds | | | | doesn't have adequate red blood cells. Since red blood |
| have symptoms of light reactivity: Porphyria Cutanea | | | | cells transfer oxygen all around the body, symptoms |
| Tarda (PCT), Variegate Porphyria, Congenital | | | | include fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, and vertigo. |
| Erythropoetic Porphyria (C.E.P.), and Protoporphyria or | | | | These symptoms are a result of the body's organs |
| Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP). Further symptoms | | | | not obtaining sufficient oxygen. These symptoms also |
| entail brown teeth, red and sometimes bloody gums, | | | | resemble the symptoms of vampire victims in early |
| and hypertrichosis (excessive hair growth). These | | | | legends. Anemia is a very common condition. |
| maladies match many vampire legends. Although, | | | | Rabies |
| victims of porphyria do not crave or consume blood. | | | | Bats and Wolves both are oftentimes connected with |
| Catalepsy | | | | vampires. They are common carriers of the disease |
| Catalepsy is a sensual condition classified by lessened | | | | rabies. Rabies has symptoms that resemble vampirism. |
| susceptibility to pain combined with muscular rigidity. | | | | Hyper-sensitivity, a characteristic of rabies, might result |
| Patients with catalepsy do not react to external stimuli. | | | | in light or garlic repulsion. Other symptoms entail |
| Subjects comprehend their environment but they | | | | becoming nocturnal due to aberrant sleep patterns and |
| cannot move or speak. Attacks of catalepsy may | | | | hyper-sexuality. Rabies is spread by biting, and patients |
| extend for a few minutes or for a few days. | | | | with rabies are oftentimes observed frothing at the |
| In severe cases, a person who is enduring a cataleptic | | | | mouth with blood. |
| episode will appear to be dead. Signs of life can only | | | | Conclusion |
| be identified by way of scientific medical equipment. | | | | Today's medical science may translate some of our |
| Ancient sufferers of catalepsy could have been buried | | | | medieval vampire stories. Porphyria, anemia, rabies, and |
| alive. Some time later, when they regained muscular | | | | catalepsy are all explainable causes of early vampire |
| control they most definitely would've attempted to | | | | tales. Villagers of the period who were deficient in |
| escape from their coffins. Some vampire folklore | | | | medical education wouldn't understand these diseases |
| describes noises coming from newly buried coffins. | | | | and their symptoms. The result could be the vampire |
| Later, when local villagers dug up these graves and | | | | folklore that spread in Europe in the middle ages. |