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Cary
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Mar 08, 2009 04:05PM
Some powers just come with being a vampire. Others are studied and aquired. Dracula easily the most powerful vampire of them all,spent generations studying the dark arts from gypsies and witches. His skill in black majic and socerery made him a powerful warlock as well as vampire. He could control weather, hypnotise people,cast spells,and see the future. These majic skills combined with his natural vampire powers made him the King Vampire that he was.
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I think I would like persuasion. Like if a mentalist tells you to do something and convinces you that it was your idea, only on a larger scale. Like a vampire scale.
I think you want a sexy vampire to just put the moves on you,LOL.
I'd also like to be able to fade. You know not be gone, just have it be unimportant, like someone you see in the halls, but don't notice. I'd love it. "Yeah, he killed somebody or something, I can't remember..." Then ask tomorrow, nothing.
Yah I can dig it, casual vampire no strings attached type hook up. Did he do all that to me? My memory is kinda funy. tee hee
That'd be SO awesome. I want a kind of mild alter-ego like Mr. Hyde's got. I know he's not a vampire, but in the series Jekyll he is very much like one.
That is what the vampire story "Carmilla" is all about. The duality of human nature. Carmilla is a charming beautiful girl in her day light and evening existance. But at bedtime she returns to her crypt to sleep after hunting a victim. Then rises from her tomb early in the morning to wander in a trance back to her human friends. She only has vague feelings about what she has done at night. She is tormented by it a little but she is to much of a sociopath to care.
Just type in Carmilla on your search engine. It is a Sheridan LeFanu story. Perhaps his best. He also wrote the Lair of the White Worm. Which is about an evil dragon like creature that lives in some sea caves in England. In A Glass Darkly are five short stories which are the last writings of Dr. Hesselius the occult detective and vampire hunter in Carmilla. Bram Stoker got a lot of his ideas for Dracula from Carmilla. Like Dr Van Helsing, the gypsies as vamp attendants,Romanian royalty turned to vampires. Both men wrote in Dublin Ireland. LeFanu is considered a Gothic ghost story type writer.
I like the kind of powers master vampires like Carmilla and Dracula had. The power of everlasting life, super human strength, the ability to come out in the daytime, the occult majic powers of teleportation, mind reading,hypnotism, flying, shape shifting,mind reading, and in the case of Dracula who has studied all the dark arts and magic of the gypsies the abilitly to control nature. Cause storms, control wolf's and other wild animals. Also they are evil. Lets see what could Edward to read minds and run fast,LOL. Cheers, Cary
Cary wrote: " I like the kind of powers master vampires like Carmilla and Dracula had."I agree. It's almost majestic.
Yeah it would be kinda cool just to bust a move on whoever you damn well pleased. Tee hee!
The power to kick the crap out of anyone that bothered me,LOL.
Yeah, easy to get a girlfriend when you can beat up anyone who bugs them. What girl doesn't want that?
How funny Mina and most women would say that was not true. However the fact is most girls like stand up guys who can defend them or help them achieve their designs by force or intimidation.
I think this discription of Dracula pretty much explains why he was the most powerful and feard vampire of all time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dr...
Carmilla has all that going on and now it is a new 2009 movie coming to theatres near you http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1351631/
Who wouldn't or at least levitate. The desire for flight is as old as Icarus and Daedelus. Dracula could only truly fly if he shifted into a bat. He did in his human body have the power of levitation to a degree he could crawl lizard like head down along the castle wall. One night Johnathan Harker saw him crawl out of a window and climb head first down to another window and disapear. Dracula could float or hover. But as far as the super man type of flight. That is not in the vampires trick book. I can't remember any vampire story where the vampire could just fly around like a plane. But then flying around like a bat or an owl would be good enough for me. The old vampire books give to the vampires a certain conformity of powers. Modern books it seems have a different set of vampire rules for each vampire series. Another reason I don't care much for modern vampire stories. They are just to willy nilly. They are not believable because they don't stick to the classic gothic vampire mythos. Modern 21st century vampires fly like super man, are nice to people,and drink animal blood. Dracula or Carmilla would have been discusted at drinking anything less than 100% human blood. "The Tomb of Sarah is the first true Gothic vampire story to introduce a vampire that drinks animal blood. In Sarahs case she had been sealed in her tomb with the sacrament. By the time it was opened she was emaciated and weak. So she would turn into wolf form and slaughter sheep. But as soon as she got strong enough she turned to humans. "The Tomb of Sarah" is on Horrormasters.com and is one of the best of the Gothic vampire short stories.
Euuopewoijd's wants the power to absorb other vampires or peoples powers. That is not Vampyre. You been watching Siler on "Hero's" I see,LOL.
I would want to be telepathic, have telekinesis, and be able to shapeshift. I think it is pretty difficult to think of ONE power I would want...
Hm I don't know about that. Sookie Stackhouse seems to think being Telepathic or being able to read minds is a curse. I know I would probably have commited several homicides if I could read minds. Now if you could just send and recieve thoughts that would be cool. Think about it. If you could read every nasty thought someone is thinking about you. Probably allot of people would have been punched at the very least. But I guess it could come in handy once you got used to it. Vampires being sociopaths don't care what people are thinking about them. I suppose maybe I think about this stuff to much. Hm yep I am sure I do.
bah! vamps shouldnt have powers! id just live in london, slit throats, and drink blood!
If you read on in Dracula you will find out that Dracula while alive attended the famous school for the dark arts called the Scholomance. The Scholomance was located on the shores of a lake in Romania and the dark arts where taught by the devil himself to 10 picked students each year. One out of every ten had to give his soul to the devil in payment. This person would help the devil brew up lightning and storms in the lake. This is real Romanian folk lore and was widley believed fact circa 1600. So Dracula attended this school and had become a master sorcerer while still alive. That is how he became a vampire. He brought him self to life after death. A sin in the eyes of God and was turned into a vampire. This made Dracula the strongest of all vampires. He was not only a vampire with the strength vampires have. He also was a master vorlock or witch and could use the art of teleportation to disappear or walk out of a wall of mist. He was a shape shifter, and to a degree could levitate although he could not fly around like super man. For that he would shapeshift into a bat. But usaually he would take the from of a wolf. He could also read minds and hynotize, and probably his strongest power was the ability he learned at Scholamance to control the weather. This is all revealed by Dr. Van Helsing about mid book. A vampire without magic powers is easily tracked and killed and dont live 500 years like Dracula had at the time of his confrontation with Johnathan Harker who did not even know what a vampire was. If he had Johnathan could have killed Dracula at the very begining of the book when he found him asleep in his casket.
that really explains alot, may be cuz the last time i was reading, van helsing was pretty much telling seward that lucy was sucking little kids' blood, *sigh* lol
Well yah Lucy is turned by Dracula. But he pretty much abandons her to live her own vampire life. She is known as the bloofer lady and feeds on children. So yeah Lucy is feeding on kids. It does not explain why Dracula dumped her. I think he had seen Mina, and already had the hots for her. That is how Van Helsing convinces the others that vampires are real. By waiting in ambush at Lucys crypt and what they find turns, Lord Godalming, Quincy, Dr Seward,and Johnathan into believers. At first they think Van Helising is a little cooky.
wooow.. helsing is my fave charrie so far...
Renfield is pretty waky. Allot of the ideas in Dracula came from Carmilla. Both writers were from Dublin, Ireland. Carmilla was written in 1875 and Dracula in 1897. Carmilla has Dr. Hesselius, Dracula has Dr. Van Helsing. Both books take place in Styria roughly. Stokers first draft had Dracula in Styria, and then he changed it to Transylvannia after reading The Phantom World. Both Vampires come from noble families. Both have magical powers of Hypnotism and Carmilla like Lucy sleepwalks. There are to many similarities for Braum Stoker not to have borrowd a teeny weeny bit from Carmilla. Dracula is however a great book in its own right.
yeah... i looked at the librarys media catalog today, and they didnt seem to have carmilla, but may b its cuz i spelled it wrong... lol
Libraries will not have Carmilla. It is usually found in a book of vampire short stories. Like The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories. Or as part of Dr. Hesselius case files in a book called In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan LeFanu. Carmilla is a long short story. I have a copy as a little paper back. So it is long enough to make a small book. However is online at Horrormasters.com Or if you just tpype in the word Carmilla and google it up you'll get about 3 websites that have the entire manuscript in print.
Hmmm, to change into any person i see. Imagine the possible number of kills would be fabulous... and it will never be blamed on a vampire only the person you clone. Ummm... and to have physical control over a person through eye contact. By the way Cary, im impressed by how much you know...well done.
Cary wrote: " Libraries will not have Carmilla. It is usually found in a book of vampire short stories. Like The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories. Or as part of Dr. Hesselius case files in a book called In A Gla..."
ok, thanks
ok, thanks
Thanks I like to read allot. But lately vampire stories have become a favorite. Then I started researching as far back as I could go in the Eastern European gothic tradition. Basically that is the book The Phantom World by Augustine Calmet who was a Catholic Monk and writer around 1750. His book has some of the Magia Postuma from 1700. Calmets book was not always called The Phantom World, but that is how it is named today. You can bet that whatever is was called back in the 1800s, both LaFanu and Stoker read this book. It is the definitive treatise on Vampires, Revelants, Magic, Witches,Angels, Ghosts, Deamons, and their relationship to God as understood in 1750.
hmmmmmm im just interested in pretty much anything that kills... lol
Really I used to keep allot of rattlesnakes when I lived in Arizona, and a Gila Monters. The Gila just ate eggs mostly. But the rattlenakes would eat mice, and even better I had a California King snake who used to love to constrict and eat baby rattlers. He was so good at creeping up on them he never got bitten. I don't like vampires than kill. At least not in a hurry. If you like to read books about things that kill. You should read Jim Corbetts Maneaters of Kumaon. It is about man eating tigers and leopards in 1900s India. It freaking rocks.
Oh yeah the Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag is the best. He goes rigth into peoples houses and kills and eats them. Everyone thinks he is a were leopard for real.
The Rudraprayag leopard ate over 1,000 people in his ten year rein of terrror on Indias piligrim road to Kedarnath. He snatched people out of their homes. Right in front of other people. Broke donw doors and carried people away. Often times people with swords and muskets. They were afraid he was a were leopard. It is probably one of Jim Corbetts best books.
Jim Corbett was a railroad worker and shipped goods across India for the British Raj circa 1918. He liked to hunt and was good at it. Whenever there was a man eating tiger or leopard in a district of the Himalayan foothills of Kumaon where he lived. The government would give him leave from railway work to track them down and kill them. Many of these animals had hundreds of confirmed kills. The Rudraprayag leopard over 10 years had 1,000 plus confirmed, and marked on a map with crosses. It almost killed Corbett one night trying to knock him out of a tree machan. He finally got lucky and shot it in pitch darkness from a tree. All his stories are true. He killed at least 10 or 12 confirmed maneating tigers, and two leopards. Being maneaters they know all about people and guns. Making them the most clever, and dangerous of all the animals to hunt. Because while you are hunting them. They are hunting you. Really great freaking true books. The books also contain a vivid description of what life was like in turn of the century Victorian India. The Raj was still strong and India was 50 years away from Indepence. Corbett got along well with local peoples and aboriginal tribesmen across India. His books desrcribe the people superstitions and animals very accurately. Corbett my man. There is also another book about the Thuggie cult of death. A book written by Sir William Sleeman records how he destoryed the cult of Thugie who worshiped Kali the Hindu godess of death. Thugies would murder and rob a victim and dedicate the killing as a sacrifice to Kali. Sleeman hunted them down across India with mass arrests and exections until he destroyed them unterly. Now if you want to read a true book about Devil worship and murder Sleemans book is great. Perhaps the creepiest book of all on devil worship and murder is "Buried Secrets". A book about the practise of Payo Mayambe a dark form of Santa Ria. A guy named Adalfo Constanso was a witch drug runner who practised human sacrific. It is a true story and will scare the pants of you.
