b) Faith in the magical “power” of blood.

About point a), it must be specified that this Life after Death should have place in an another world like Valhalla, Ade, Paradise and so on. The death is the limit between the real and the after-death world. This passage is very considered by every culture, and celebrated with special and peculiar ceremonies. A spirit or a dead corpse walking another time in the world of living beings means that the ceremony was not complete, not well-performed or, worse at all, it was stained by some kind of fault; now the spirit wants revenge! Also vampires fall in this category, dead in body but living in spirit, suspended forever on the thin borderline between Life and Death.

Regard to the second point, it is easy to see that in many pre-industrial cultures blood is not only a symbol of vigour, life and health, but it is considered also the container of these mystical forces. Drinking the blood of a strong animal or enemy, or eating his flesh, was a way

Some topics in this essay:
Van Helsing’s, Vampires Furies, Ross Stewart, Ruthven Aubrey, Snatchers Moreover, Steakley’s Vampires, Melancholia Romanticism, Jack Crow, Danse Macabre, Salem’s Barlow, vampire hunters, jack crow, van helsing, inside evil, outside evil, roman catholic, van helsing’s, mina harker, catholic church, victorian age, roman catholic church, mina harker lucy, “the vampire tale”, van helsing’s words, goes little town,