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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be exploring stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....

And on today’s Dark enigma we’re going to be exploring the dark and seductive world of Vampires. Please note there are no sparkly teenage angst y vampires here, no, we’re looking at where the legends started from and how vampires are en grained in our collective memories. As always, we will be playing our drinking game but only for those of you that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. So we could easily go for the obvious, Bloody Mary shots, but live a little guys, there are some great drinks out there. This time, I’m not doing the work for you, so look up one of my favorite drinks a Vampire cocktail, OK I lied, there’s a link. But they are super delicious and extra creepy. So every time I say Sparkly is a single shot and every time I say Christianity, that’s a double shot. Now that we have the business end out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma…

In every culture around the world we find signs and folklore pertaining to vampirism. As you know there is nothing like a good vampire story. So let’s jump into the first and in my opinion the best legend. The story of Lilith; this tale comes from a rabbinical fable called a Midrash. Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She was cast out of Eden because she refused to assume a subordinate sexual position. Lilith was transformed into a nocturnal monster that mated with animals, and sought out the children of Adam & Eve, killing them vengefully and consuming their flesh. There is several versions of this fable, which we may look into later when we examine the different species of vampires in other cultures.