Vampires Turning Into Vampires

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I didn't know the proper title for this so if an admin or mod can change the title to the proper title is fine with me! Anyways, before watching BTVS & ATS did anybody else think that vampires just turn into vampires after being bitten?
 
Yeah, at one point I thought that. When I was younger I always figured that if the bite didn't kill you it turned you.
 
brinkster130 said:
Yeah, at one point I thought that. When I was younger I always figured that if the bite didn't kill you it turned you.
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Sorta along that line... I've been watching classic (and cheapass 🙂) vampire flicks from way too young an age, and I thought that if you die from a vampire bite, you'll rise as a vamp yourself. (Which, incidentally, is exactly the way (A)D&D handles it in the world of roleplaying, at least in the editions I know... so I wasn't alone with that view, it seems. 😛)

The "exchange of blood" really only seems to have become an indubitable standard of the genre pretty recently, maybe starting with Coppola's version of Dracula? Anyone remember how it was in Stoker's novel? Been ages since I read it myself... I seem to remember that for siring, you would need to be killed slowly, drained over several nights, but I'm fuzzy about whether blood needed to be exchanged.
 
Not exactly sure about Stoker, but in the "original" Bela Lugosi Dracula film, you also needed to die with vampire blood in your veins to be turned. 🙂
 
I don't think I've ever really had one thought on how vamps turn pre-Buffy considering pretty much everything I've read or watched has had a slightly different variation on the whole turning thing. I think my main idea of it when I was younger was you get drained to the point of death and then you drink the sire's blood in order to turn. I like that idea better than a bite being all that it takes because then it'd be a bugger to have every 'meal' come back as a vamp the next day!

I think it's cool having so many different versions of vampires and how they turn out there though. Even if it is a bit confusing sometimes! 😀
 
There have been several different versions of how a vampire is created over the years, the oldest that I can recall, from the Legosi Dracula times, was that simply having a vampire kill someone made them rise from the grave. In those days, though, vampires rarely actually killed their victims immediately. The vampire would "visit" his victim, usually a lovely young girl, nightly, until she either died from cumulative blood loss, (after which she was always, for some reason, laid to rest in an open crypt, dressed in a rather sheer night gown) then she became a vampire, unless prior to that point some astute old vampire hunter, with the help of some dashing young hero type, stopped him. The requirement for the victim actually having to taste the vampire's blood at the moment of death (along with the vampire crumbling to dust after being staked) is fairly recent vampire lore, no more than 15 or 20 years old.
 
white avenger said:
There have been several different versions of how a vampire is created over the years, the oldest that I can recall, from the Legosi Dracula times, was that simply having a vampire kill someone made them rise from the grave.
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Actually, in the Legosi film, as I said above, Dracula had to give his blood to his victim and they had to die with his blood in their veins in order for them to turn into a vampire.

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Darla said:
Actually, in the Legosi film, as I said above, Dracula had to give his blood to his victim and they had to die with his blood in their veins in order for them to turn into a vampire.

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It's been so long since I've seen that film, I can barely remember that Renfrew preferred spiders to roaches, because spiders were juicer. But generally from the 30's or 40's up until the late 60's or so, the common formula was that the vampire's victim also became a vampire. At least, that's the way it was every Friday night on the "Big Movie Shocker," hosted by the immortal Bestionk Dooley.
 
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Someone just happened to be discussing this with me immediately after I watched the film again, so that's the only reason I know :)
Nope, I was always rather fond of vampire-lore and stories as a child, I picked up the whole "it's a big blood-sucking thing" pretty early I guess as the majority of the fiction out there seems to support that theory 🙂
 
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