More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was born

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More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was born (theconversation.com)

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Big nose, operates in secret, has wealth and lives in a castle, drinks blood.

There is a much (((more likely))) explanation for what we were really being warned about.

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Professor Stepanic offers one explanation. But he's wrong. I would like to offer an alternative explanation as to why Europeans might have had concerns about blood-sucking fiends in their midst.

https://www.jewworldorder.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jewish-blood-libel-child-sacrifice.jpg

http://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/90746301_10157326114093299_1295626637739556864_o.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/100Oniw.jpg

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2003/04/Sandomierz_katedra_-_mord_rytualny-1.jpg

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The vampire mythos, along with "fairy tales" like Hansel and Gretel, have their roots in the ritual sacrifice and cannibalism practiced by kabbalists and their predecessors for millenia.

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"Cautionary tales"

Intended to communicate dangers to children.

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