Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers, I'm your host Samantha Fe.

Deb is on vacation so it's just you and me as we dive into two weeks of spooky shows.

Before I start, just a warning that I will be talking about some gruesome and graphic issues

so this show might not be appropriate for some.

This week we're talking vampires.

Who are they? Could they be real?

Are they some form of alien creature?

An interdimensional being? The walking undead?

Or just a legend?

The word vampire was first used in the 18th century when a book was published called Travels with Three English Gentlemen.

But tales of blood-sucking creatures are practically timeless and cross all cultures.

Sumbly vampires were demons summoned in an ancient Egyptian ceremony and have walked the earth for thousands of years.

But here's what I find so fascinating about vampires.

Before sea travel and trade connected countries and continents, we find legends of these vampires in every culture.

There's an ancient Babylonian story about a woman named either Lillitu or Lillu

who caused her victims to be anemic, a sure sign of blood loss.

A thousand years ago the Vikings told spooky stories about the Dragoor, which loosely translates to

one who walks after death.

This vampire creature was a cannibalistic monster.

If you were killed by a Dragoor, you would become one too.

Legend said they possessed superhuman strength, could shape shift and pass through walls.

Scandinavian lore said to prevent someone from turning into a Dragoor,

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