Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

KEANU REEVERS IS A VAMPIRE


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Thursday, June 4, 2015

why everybody loves IAN

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries

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This article is about the television series. For the book series, see The Vampire Diaries (novel series). For the unrelated film, see Vampire Diary.
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries (title card).png
GenreSupernatural drama
Horror
Fantasy
Based onThe Vampire Diaries by
L. J. Smith
Developed byKevin Williamson
Julie Plec
StarringNina Dobrev
Paul Wesley
Ian Somerhalder
Steven R. McQueen
Sara Canning
Kat Graham
Candice Accola
Zach Roerig
Kayla Ewell
Michael Trevino
Matt Davis
Joseph Morgan
Michael Malarkey
Composer(s)Michael Suby
Country of originUnited States
Originallanguage(s)English
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes133 (list of episodes)
Production
Executiveproducer(s)Leslie Morgenstein
Bob Levy
Kevin Williamson
Julie Plec
Editor(s)Lance Anderson
Tyler Cook
Nathan Easterling
Location(s)Atlanta, Georgia
Covington, Georgia
Chicago, Illinois
Pilot:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Running time44 minutes
Productioncompany(s)Outerbanks Entertainment
Alloy Entertainment
CBS Television Studios
Warner Bros. Television
DistributorWarner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original channelThe CW
Picture format1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Original releaseSeptember 10, 2009 – present
Chronology


The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the popular book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009.
The series takes place in Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted and surrounded by supernatural beings. The series narrative follows theprotagonist Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) as she falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) and is drawn into the supernatural world as a result. As the series progresses, Elena finds herself drawn to Stefan's brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) resulting in a love triangle. As the narrative develops in the course of the series, the focal point shifts on the mysterious past of the town involving Elena's malevolent doppelgänger Katerina Petrova. Katerina was the love of both Damon and Stefan Salvatore many years ago. Her return, along with the family of Original Vampires, have all led to many plots against Elena and Mystic Falls.
The pilot episode attracted the largest audience for The CW of any series premiere since the network began in 2006.[1] The first season averaged 3.60 million viewers and following seasons have maintained an audience of over 2 million viewers.[2] It remains the most-watched series on the network. The series initially received mixed reviews, but critics agreed as the first season progressed that the show improved. Subsequent seasons have premiered to more positive critical reception. The show has received numerous award nominations, winning four People's Choice Award and many Teen Choice Awards.
On February 11, 2013, The CW renewed the series for a fifth season.[3] On April 26, 2013, The CW has officially announced that the spin-off The Originals, which focuses on the Original family, has been ordered to series and began airing during the 2013–14 American television season.[4] The fifth season premiered on October 3, 2013, followed by the series premiere of The Originals.[5]
On January 11, 2015, the CW renewed the series for a seventh season.[6] On April 6, 2015, lead actress Nina Dobrev confirmed via Instagram that she would be leaving the show after its sixth season.[7]

Series overview[edit]

The series follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), a teenage girl who falls deeply in love with a 163-year-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). Their relationship becomes increasingly complicated as Stefan's vicious, malevolent and mysterious older brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) returns with a plan to wreak havoc on the town, seeking revenge against his younger brother for turning him into a vampire against his will. Because Elena resembles their past love Katherine Pierce, Damon also begins to fall in love with Elena. It is revealed that Elena is a descendant of Katherine, who eventually returns with plans against the trio. Elena undergoes many hardships and deaths of close family members and loved ones throughout her high school experience.
The series is set in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a town charged with supernatural history since its settlement of migrants from New England in the late 19th century. Additional story lines revolve around the other inhabitants of the town, most notably Elena's younger brother Jeremy Gilbert (Steven R. McQueen), her best friends Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham) and Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola), and their mutual friends Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino) and Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig). The town's politics are orchestrated by descendants of the original founding families, all comprising a "Founders' Council." Some of the founding families of Mystic Falls includes the Salvatores, the Gilberts, the Fells, the Forbes, and the Lockwoods. They guard the town mainly from vampires, although there are many more supernatural threats such as werewolves, witches, and ghosts.
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Monday, June 1, 2015

VAMPIRES - TRUTH OR MYTH?

Lampir according to Bosnian belief is a dead man, who was possessed by an evil spirit (Jinn) 7 or 40 days after his death, who in turn resurrected him in order to exit his burial place and terrorise the members of his family and various places and drink blood. He is described as a man without bones, inflated like a paunch, full of blood, ragged and hairy, with big eyes and nails; dressed in the clothes he was buried in or wearing a white cloth over his naked body. Bosnian name for vampire is lampir (lepir or lampijer) . Term coming from the folks name of the butterfly – lepir. The according Bosnian beliefs death man from grave, who is become vampire, went to out in shape butterfly and fly. In Bosnian Posavina ethnological data reveal that people believed that the lampir had eyes of a goat or a goat which he used to hide once he came into contact with humans since they gave him away. Besides the form of a human he can also have various animal forms such as a cat, dog, pig, ox, horse, mouse, bat, etc. He exits the grave though a small hole since he has the ability to elongate himself, but once he gets out he becomes large and grotesque and he makes sounds by shouting in various voices. He appears always after midnight and walks around the graves and its immediate vicinity. When a lampir goes around a house he is followed by the noise of ten sieves, sieving the ground. He often brings some dirt from his grave and offers to some inhabitants to smell it and then sneeze. If someone says "healthy" to that person than he won't turn into a vampire; if not then he will turn into one. There are a lot of documented stories about the lampir's nightly visits, this is one of them: around Prijedor there is a Muslim graveyard. Next to it there is a Christian house. When a religious student stopped by, the housewife told him the following: "For a couple of nights we have been disturbed by a vampire. In the late night hour he throws stones at the house so forcefully that the boards on the roof started to break. Two nights ago I went out to see who is throwing rocks at our house - but as soon as I stepped out there was an eerie silence and I didn't see anyone. And as soon as I went back into the house it started again. This continued until dawn. Then I visited the graveyard, looked at all the graves, and I spotted a hole in one of the graves. I placed a large stone onto it but it was in vain, because the vampire threw stones again last night." The standard assumption that garlic and hawthorn are a sure defence mechanism against a vampire are not true in Bosnia which can be ascertained through the following story: "A woman by the name of Aćima died in a village called Stupari, and the people started to talk that Aćima started to return to her house after midnight. The inhabitants and her husband testified to this claim, then the villagers gathered around and dug up her grave and saw her peaking at them through one eye, then they put a hawthorn stake through her. The next night a member of Aćima's household got sick, that member claimed that Aćima came back again walked around the house not saying anything, and that she took three pieces of garlic with her before she left. The family and their neighbours dug up her grave again and they found her lying on her side and the three pieces of garlic were placed around her. They made a big fie around her and once they burned her they closed the grave again. Since then the lampir Aćima was never heard from again. One of the more interesting beliefs of how one becomes a vampire was recorded in Vlasenica - that is if someone walks over a yarn. This happened to an ethnologist: "Two girls who were weaving a yarn asked me to go over a yarn once I stepped over it. I didn't want to but they were persistent because if I didn't a great evil would befall me. When I asked what could happen they answered that I should step over it again and that they would tell me. Once I did what they asked, they said that if I didn't step over it again that I would become a vampire once I died and if they were alive when that happened he would seek them out and kill them." TRACES OF VAMPIRISM IN BOSNIA According to the claims of the author of the insert of the show "Galileo Mystery", in 1731 in a place Međeđa near Višegrad the earliest place of vampirism was recorded. It all began with a sudden death of 14 people. Since the deaths were not preceded by an illness the locals ascribed the deaths to vampirism. Allegedly in order to be certain of their claims, they dug up the graves a few days later and in them they found the bodies untouched! The insert didn't offer any concrete details which would substantiate this story from Međeđa, but the written documents about vampires from the time of Austro-Hungarian rule were shown which can now be found in the city archives of Vienna.(and you can see a foto of Međeđa mosque)
The German psychologist Sibel Balta researched these documents, she researched the mysteries connected to vampires for years. She explained that the documents refer to the Serbian village Kišeljevo and the Bosnian village Međeđa, in the 18th century a lot of unresolved murder mysteries occurred there. According to the available scriptures, Austro-Hungarian physicians paid more attention to the cases in Kišeljevo because of the king's decree, and because of the insistence of the villagers they dug up graves which were believed to hold vampires. Balta further claims that the documents held incredible details. They say that the physicians exhumed the bodies which seemed untouched and unharmed. According to their report the skin of the bodies was pinkish in colour and in their mouths they found traces of blood. The physicians documented that the bodies seemed as if alive after death. Considering the fact that doctors of that time didn't have the means to explain what they saw, they came to the same conclusion as the locals that the deceased were the victims of vampires. They even approved the ritual of putting a hawthorn stake through their hearts, which was at that time considered as an effective cure against vampires. However, Dr. Balta claims after researching vampires herself, today almost 300 years after Međeđa and Kišeljevo that the story of vampires hides a serial killer. To uncover clues and substantiate her claims Balta announced a visit to Bosnia. ( text copied from www.falanje.com )
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Lampir Meho

Mythological world of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lampir: in Bosnia vampires are called lampir, lapir, lampijer, vukodlak or vukozlačina. It was believed that if a cat crosses over a deceased man that he will become a lampir. Of course the effect would be cancelled out if the cat returns the same way it came. Because people were afraid that this would happen they would place a knife on dead man's chest or they would spike a knife next to his head. There was also a custom where people would place a bowl of wheat or only three grains of wheat where the dead person was lying before he was buried, after the burial the wheat was given to a pauper. There were a lot of lampiers but the most famous ones were Lampir Meho from Glamoč, Pajo Tomić and a certain Korkut from Nevesinje.
 Bosnian witches were able to call forth the deadly power of the vukodlak by going to a graveyard and repeating the formula: "Adali Ada to protect me" and then they would sit next to a grave keeping their eyes closed, and they would grab a handful of dirt and they would take it home. They would hold on to that dirt until one of their enemies would die and they would plant the dirt under the threshold of his house while the deceased is carried out of it. They did this because they wanted someone else dead from that household.

Bosnia-Hercegovina, like its Ottoman, Habsburg, and Yugoslav predecessors, is a multinational state. Today, most citizens identify themselves as one of three groups: Bosniaks (Illyrians)(48 percent), Bosnian Croats (Slavic, 14 percent), or Bosnian Serbs (Slavic, 37 percent). In addition to Slavs, smaller groups Bosnian living in the region for centuries include Albanians (Illyrians), Germans, Roma (Gypsies), Jews, Romanians, Turks, and Hungarians. Capital: Sarajevo; Population: 4,007,608.
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Comic book,dhampir

Comic book / Manga / Comic Strips dhampirs or dhampir-like creatures found in fiction.

  • Harlan Draka (Dampyr)Comic Strip foto by Jasmin Vuk
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dhampirs or dhampir-like creatures found in fiction

Cinematic / Televised  dhampirs or dhampir-like creatures found in fiction

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List of fictional dhampirs (dhampir)

This list covers the many types of dhampirs or dhampir-like creatures found in fiction. It does not include any dhampir that originates in folklore or mythology, nor does it include the concept of 'full' vampires.

Literary[edit]

  • AJ Ashe (Bite Me)
  • Solange Drake (The Drake Chronicles)
source wikpedia
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Dhampir

The Albanian word for Vampire is Dhampir (Dham = teeth and Pir = drink/suck) … In the Albanian language the verb pir/pin/pi means simultaneously to drink and to suck … (e.g. the albanians say: "mushkonja/shushunja me ka pir gjakun" = "the mosquito/leech sucked my blood"). Thus the name Dhampir means Teeth-sucker … sucking via teeth)). Dhampirs are evil nightly creatures with sharp and long teeth, very strong, quick, heavy and are mostly invisible to the eyes of the normal People. They fear the fire, the water and the daylight, but like the music. These are dead people which were angry. They get up from the grave and come at night, bite people and animals and drinks their blood. Dhampirs are very sadistic; they terrify, beat up, and rape women and/or kill people. Only a Dhampirash (Dhampirash = the child of a Vampire father and a human mother) is capable to see the Dhampires, and knows how to fight or kill them. He must make a circle from some burnable material and blood on the ground; afterward he lures the vampire into the circle while positioning himself in the middle of the circle, playing the fife (recorder) or whistling. Then he puts fire on the circle, so that the terrified Dhampire from the fire cannot flee, forcing the Dhampire to fight him. Dhampirash must kill and burn the Dhampire, or new Dhampires will rise from every glow of these fires of a circle. When he has him killed and completely burnt, he must take his ashes/cinders and throw them in a river. (I told shortly and only the most important one) Old tales from the Albanian folklore (Kosovo). I have translated this by online translating service from German to English, and I tried to make clearer. I hope it is clear enough, for those who want to understand. I have forgotten to say that the Albanian word for the female vampires is Dhampiresha/Dhampireshe ... (e.g., Luan (m) Luanesha/e (f) = lion (m) lioness (f), or Mbret (m) Mbretresha/e (f) = king (m) queen (f) etc. --User:!i!i!i!i!i! 01:10, 5 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.73.235.63 (talk) Serbian вампир/vampir, or, according to some sources, from Hungarian vámpír. The Serbian and Hungarian forms have parallels in virtually all Slavic languages. The Bosnian Lampir which was the name of the oldest recorded vampire Meho Lampir.: Bulgarian вампир (vampir)... (Wikipedia) T. P. Vukanović published a four-part article on vampires in 1957-59; it includes the only original research on dhampir beliefs that I have been able to find. (And I've looked in the obvious places, including Montague Summers's books on vampires, Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania by Senn, Vampires of the Carpathians by Bogatyrëv, and various anthologies on Eastern European lore edited by Jan Perkowski.) Only a small part of Vukanović's article is devoted to dhampir beliefs. I've added three paragraphs under "Legends" that pretty well summarize the dhampir-relevant information in the article. Much of what it replaced apparently was based on the White Wolf universe. Maybe a writeup on World of Darkness/Kindred of the East dhampyrs would be appropriate also? The Vampire Encyclopedia by Michael Bunson (ISBN 0-517-16206-7) on pages 65 & 69 attributes it as a name given by Slavonic Gypsies to the child of a vampire. Goes on to describe the basic properties of a dhampir, the believed prowess of hunting vampires, the ritual of hunting vampires and states that the last known vampire hunting cerimony performed by a dhampir as being held in 1959 in Kosovo. He doesn't have a direct cite for any of those assertions but most of the books he lists as references he used to prepare his book are prior to 1980. -- Greyed ( Added a section on Kindred of the East dhampyrs. This universe is likely the source of beliefs that dhampirs grow up emotionally disturbed, that most pregnancies of dhampirs do not come to term, etc. Since the universe is fictional, I added this section after rather than before the "False dhampirs" section, even though I strongly suspect "False dhampirs" is based chiefly or entirely on the Saga of the Noble Dead novels by Barb & J.C. Hendee.,( 5 January 2006 (UTC) In the Fiction section, how about Connor from Angel? Darla was reserected as human when Connor was concieved, and a Vampire when he was born, and had the vampire strengths and abilities.Origin of the word[edit] "Dhamphir" is the Roman transliteration of ذمثير, the closest Arabic script (as was traditionally used in the Muslim Balkan areas) approximation of the the Serbian word "vampir", which itself derived from the original Slavonic "upir". In non-muslim comunities the dhampir male was more specifically known as łampijerowić, literally meaning "vampire's son".[citation needed] I absolutely fail to see the logic of this. Do we have to assume that Serbian gypsies learned the word for "vampire" by reading a document about Serbian folk belief written in the Arabic script, so they didn't know how it was pronounced? --91.148.159.4 21:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC) Dont get confused friend. Dhamphir has a totally Arabic phonology not a slavonic one, Vampir on the other hand has a totally slavonic phonology not an Arabic one. If we don't include the phonology we might as well write another article under a different name. However, it is highly dubious that a foreign word like this should even have an article of its own in English according to Wikipedia naming conventions. If it is about half-vampires, then the English article should be entitles Half-vampires (folklore) and Dhamphir should appear as one of the many words for such in different languages...there is debate about name,and in this artikle i use source from Wikpedia and foto by Jasmin Vuk
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