#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction

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For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking
creatures that rise from the dead.


But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened
to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a
simple, biological explanation for it all?


The start of Bram Stoker's Dracula

The fundamental characteristics of vampires

Vampires in ancient European folklore

Why people might have thought vampires needed to drink blood

Vampires being blamed for the plague

The Great Vampire Epidemic

The story of Petar Blagojević

John Polidori’s The Vampyre

Vampires & Vlad The Impaler

Vampires on film

Modern vampires



Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary
available on the website:
https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires


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