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Showing posts with label Porphyria. Show all posts

History of Porphyria

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  A Little Bit of History 1841 The term 'porphyrin' comes from the Greek word, porphyus, meaning reddish-purple. It was first th...

Vampires and Garlic

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Halloween.  That yearly tradition of kids dressing up as their favorite character all in order to gather copious amounts of candy from total...

Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder

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The concept of a vampire predates Bram Stoker's tales of Count Dracula—probably by several centuries. But did vampires ever really exist...

Fact or Fiction: Are Vampires Real?

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Raise the stakes with this all encompassing guide on all things vampires. Author: Leah Hall, for Country Living It's not your imaginatio...

Vampires and Biochemistry

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Perhaps you are a fan of Twilight the movie or the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, or True Blood the television drama series created and...

Scientific Reasons to Believe in Vampires, Werewolves & Zombies

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Let's take a look at some of the real-world events and phenomena that may have inspired the creation of vampires, werewolves and zombie...

Porphyria and Types of Porphyria

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Porphyrins are a group of chemical compounds that occur in most living cells in both animals and plants. These organic compounds are combine...

Diseases Sometimes Confused with Vampirism

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Over the years, some diseases have sometimes been linked with vampirism because they gave out one or more symptoms that have also been assoc...

Youth Vampire Culture: From the Darkness Toward the Light

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As a growing number of youths in America begin to challenge the notion of inequality and repression, they are turning their heads away from ...

Werewolves: Legends, Cases, Theories

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The wereanimal belief or legend is universal. In the European and American cultures, the predominant theme is that the werecreature is a wol...

Werewolf and Vampire!

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FRIGHTENING! If you haven’t been clawed, drained, ripped, bitten or sucked yet, don’t go off guard. I interviewed vampire buffs, visited g...

Hunger For the Marvelous: The Vampire Craze in the Computer Age

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This summer may have been the season of bats and Batman, but the rest of the year belongs to the vampire. If pop culture's current preoc...

Vampirism: A Medical Perspective

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Vampires have continued to fascinate us and stimulate our imaginations for thousands of years. Indeed, many humans have been accused of bein...

Werewolves - A Medical Perspective

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The werewolf has played an important part in universal folklore since pre-Christian times. A werewolf is classically defined as "a pers...

Coffin Medicine

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New research explodes the bloody myths of vampirism Scary tales about vampires and werewolves continue to be a lucrative Hollywood staple....

Porphyria and Lycanthropy

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The disease porphyria may have led to accusations of lycanthropy or vampirism.

Vampires: Eternal Bloodlust

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Everybody knows vampires, those immortal creatures that drink the blood of their victims. Hollywood is especially fond of them -- there are ...

Vampires: A Medical Explanation

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As the 20th century evolved, rational man turned to science to explain mythology that had pervaded for thousands of years. How could a man b...

Deconstructing the Myths of Vampire Folklore and Examining the Truths of Modern Day Vampires

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Why do we, as humans, have a long standing fascination with vampires? Is it our own morbid love affair with death? Or perhaps the twisted ps...

The Werewolf Syndrome: Compulsive Bestial Slaughterers

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Attack In 1995, a young woman in Douglas County, Washington, was unable to get her mother or fourteen-year-old sister, Amanda, to answer t...