| Real vampire sightings are not just the work of | | | | Additional characteristics of the traditional Vampire is |
| modern day fiction, a skeleton uncovered from a | | | | the possession of supernatural physical abilities such |
| grave in Venice is being alleged as the first recognized | | | | as, agility, hearing, increased smelling capacity and of |
| case of 'vampires' extensively referred to in present | | | | course, omitting no shadow. It is believed that |
| day records. | | | | Vampires also have quadrochromatic vision; while we |
| Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy | | | | humans have just three kinds of conoids in our eye |
| discovered the bones of a woman with a small block | | | | vampires possessed four, the fourth being regulated to |
| in her mouth while digging mass graves of plague | | | | be near-infrared. It is understood that they are able to |
| fatalities from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo | | | | close themselves down for decades, desiccating |
| Island in Venice which was removed from a mass | | | | down to this biologically inactive condition and entering |
| grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576. | | | | what is commonly recognized as an 'undead' phase |
| During the time period the woman perished, many | | | | whereby they cannot be destroyed other than by |
| individuals conceived that the plague was spread by | | | | decapitation, burning, or puncture of the heart by a |
| 'vampires' which, rather than consuming human's blood, | | | | wooden implement. |
| spread illness by gnawing on their coverings after | | | | Vampire legend implies that they principally bite the |
| death. Grave diggers positioned blocks in the mouths | | | | victim's neck, drawing out the blood commencing with |
| of believed vampires to impede them from gnawing | | | | the carotid artery. In mythology and popular tradition, |
| the coverings, Matteo stated. | | | | the expression usually relates to a ideology that one |
| The urban myth depicts Vampires as possessing a | | | | can gain supernatural powers by consuming human |
| variety of supplemental powers and personality | | | | blood. In addition, Werewolves are occasionally thought |
| characteristics, radically changeable in different | | | | to become vampires following death, and vampires |
| traditions, and is a familiar subject of folklore, movies, | | | | are frequently believed to possess the capacity to |
| and present day fiction. Vampires are believed to be | | | | metamorphose themselves into wolves. |
| enormously powerful, possessing fangs, and an inability | | | | The above is of course the stuff of urban legend and |
| to be exposed to daylight or holy water Whilst they | | | | our movie screens and works of fiction however, this |
| enjoy a long existence and have an incredible healing | | | | latest find in Venice is probably as close as we are |
| capability, they are not as legend tells it, thought to be | | | | going to get in terms of real vampire sightings. |
| outright immortal. | | | | |