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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