"Good cannot arise from evil nor evil from good," according to Indo-Iranian dualism. "It's this beautiful analogy that the similarity between those two things and it translates very well into a physical manifestation, into an anthropomorphization of the unexplained phenomena", he says. The folkloric vampire had two functions: One and arguably first was a psychological function to explain certain very specific phenomena that people were experiencing living in central and eastern Europe in a pre-modern period.

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