1 Introduction. The motif of the vampire has now been widely spread through all kinds of genres, movies and literary works. Many of these texts treat and depict vampirism as a mythical, religious or supernatural phenomenon or a mixture of all three of these. As the vampire is a figure which - concerning its existence in literary texts - is rooted in gothic and fantastic fiction, the causes and reasons for its existence given in these …showed first 75 words of 3429 total…

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