evil beings related to two things
vamps
the origin of vampires we must put it in ancient Greece under the name of Lamias terrible, horrible women, feeding on the blood of children, them and their "banquet" was born the myth of the vampire. lamias Over time gave way to more beautiful and sensual beings capable of love to their victims, as legend has it that the vampire must always have a partner, is why the fascination felt towards the image of the vampire, since it is presented as being deformed, but quite the contrary is shown to us in all its beauty not never fades and that's how they seduce and wither those who have chosen to be his companions, showing them the night world, the kingdom of evil, the cold warmth of the darkness
The Lamias often very beautiful, but could not manifest itself in all its beauty, often have a characteristic abnormal, like the legs of goose, chicken or goat. Her hair, long, silky and shiny
is usually blonde, but when night came undergo a transformation and becomes white, his eyes red and his skin is wrinkled and old. Anyway, enjoy great versatility, are such amiable, charitable, harmless and holders of secrets. Its area is restricted to the cave of Leza.
The term "lamia" originates in Greek mythology, referring to ua queen of Phrygia, known for her beauty and terrible cruelty, which ended up being transformed into a beast. In the legends of Euskadi negative retained all its character and in other regions became synonymous with vicious vampire, capable of sucking the blood of children. So in England in the form of very seductive woman, whose feet are goat hooves hidden under the folds of her green dress. Seduces men and seize the moment special about dancing with them and suck their blood which Transylvanian vampire. On the other hand, paradoxically, shows benign with children and the elderly.
Lamias are essentially underground. Build their homes underground, in caves or caverns, but spend most time near streams or sources that are usually found near or dolmen menhirs, trying by all means absorb all the energy that emanates from them. All brilliantly decorated their homes and do not appear on the surface until dawn.
Their caves are scattered Urepel, Iriberri, Orozco, saw Entzia, Dima ... etc.
Within the mythology of Euskadi, female beings are generally associated with streams, rivers and springs, which are licked. These have always been associated with fairies and is initially in mythology female beings who coexist with the nymphs and targets.
With time and the arrival of Christianity, lamias became identified with evil beings, and even with succubi, as a way to dispel the myth.
Lamias are winged and beautiful, with long golden hair, but with the peculiarity that their feet are really geese and ducks, bird legs. They are very noble and have a great power. Are said to live hundreds of years, and that eat bacon, wheat bread, cider and milk offered to them by humans. Inhabit the river banks, singing beautiful songs with sweet and melodious voice, but are immersed in the water when they detect a human presence. Usually only come to the surface at night to wash clothes in the river, combing her long golden hair with combs and spinning with the distaff.
gold comb symbolizes the material power and sovereign all lamias erotic, and always has been the object of desire of humans trying to get by any means sometimes provoking the ire of lamias, that involved the thieves in misfortunes until he returned the comb. Azcarate
A legend in the vicinity of Mendaro, that a man found a beautiful golden comb in a nearby field, picked it up and took him home. The next day it was found that the whole meadow was full of stones. While the scene looked stunned, she met a lamia, and told him that if he returned the comb, the stones of the field disappear. The man returned the card and, that night, the stones removed lamias meadow. So many, that each lamia only had to remove a stone.
lamias Not always were so nice. Other legends, with different versions, tell how a man steals comb gold at a lamia, which seeks to recover. But man, beating her, took refuge in the sunny areas of forests, where the lamia loses its power. Other times, the lamias threaten to kill the offspring of those who dare to take away their golden comb.
lamias
But they were also generous to those who helped them. They used to give to humans apparently worthless objects, such as bacon, honey, or ashes, which were converted into gold or silver, according to the chosen object. Legend has it that the lamias, on one occasion, called the midwife of a people to attend the birth of one of the Lamia. The midwife arrived at the river bank and assisted in the delivery of the lamia, that, in gratitude, offered the woman a pot of butter and a honey. He was asked to choose the most wanted jar. Although he recommended accepting the jar of honey, the midwife thought that butter would be more useful at home. When he got home, put the pot of butter, which, in the next morning was filled with silver coins. Then he realized that if he had chosen the honey pot that was recommended lamias, the jar had been filled with gold coins.
Lamias help in their work to humans who leave offerings at night. It is said that some bridges were built by Lamia. According to different versions of the legend, in towns mountain, difficult access, the villagers planned to build bridges to improve communication between peoples, but were complicated jobs, the location of dichoslugares, so asking for help to lamias, leaving them food. At night, when everyone was lying lamias lifted the bridge from one end of the river to the other. It is said that one day, a baker who had the oven near the bridge, turned the oven at midnight, so the baker cock, thinking it was dawn, he started singing, scaring lamias that, when they went to placing the last stone on the bridge, frightened by the crowing of the cock, dropping the stone to the river bottom. In this way, says that if you look closely, you'll find some bridges with a hole in the bracket, thus identifying the bridges built by Lamia.
is usually said that the Lamia are elusive to humans, but we are in the Basque folklore numerous love affairs and human lamias. The most widespread is the pastor tells how a young man returning home with the flock late in the afternoon, he met a beautiful lamia in the riverbank. The couple met every day till they had the love between them, and decided to marry. Al llegar a su casa, el pastor contó a sus padres lo ocurrido, y cómo había decidido casarse con esa bella mujer que estaba en la orilla del río. Su madre estaba extrañada de que hubiera una mujer sola en la orilla del río a esas horas tan avanzadas, por lo que le recomendó a su hijo que, antes de casarse con esa joven, le mirase los pies, ya que podía ser una lamia. El pastor hizo lo que le pidió su madre, y, cuando se encontró de nuevo con su amada, le miró los pies, comprobando con terror que eran pies de pato. A pesar de seguir enamorado de la bella lamia, el joven anuló el compromiso de matrimonio y acabó enfermo de tristeza, muriendo poco tiempo después. Dice la leyenda que la lamia, enamorada the pastor, went to his funeral, but did not pass the church door.
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VAMP TYPES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD
MARA: Vampire
Slavonic, also found in the legends of the people of Canada Kashuba. It is believed the spirit of a woman not named, consider it a terrible night visitor that oppresses its victims. In the Slavic legend once the Mara drinks the blood of a person she becomes his lover and return to visit him to death. It is also believed that you feel like the blood of children.
Masani:
female vampire from India, is said to be the spirit of the land of the graves. Her skin is black and the hunt usually starts at night for a prayer to the deceased. Anyone passing through the burial site will be attacked
MOROII:
A Romanian vampire life. Can be male or female, and shows many of the characteristics of a Strigoii.
OBAYIFO:
living vampire that is among the people of Ashanti in the Gold Coast in Africa. They think it may be both a man and a woman and leaves at night to feed his human body. It is also believed that young people like and can cause crop damage.
PENANGGALAN:
Malay vampire that flies at night with only his head and neck with your gut hanging below. The creature is always female and generally feeds on children or women in labor.
Succubus:
This is a European vampire. The way of feeding is stressful having sex with the victim, feeding off the sexual energy. They can assume the appearance of others. Often visit the same victim more than once. The victim of a Succubus will experience the visits as dreams.
succubi are female demons who seduce men
TLACIQUES: Vampires
These witches were found among the Nahuatl Indians in Mexico. Can become a fireball or a turkey, and these forms can be fed inadvertently. SOURCE
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ATTENTION TO THE DIFFERENCE OF MEANING AND VAMP VAMPIRE AS
vampire. From French
"vampire" and the German "vampir".
1. m. Spectrum or body that he believes the common people from certain countries, the evening will slowly suck the blood of the living to death.
2. m. Vampire bat of South America.
3. m. Greedy person who abuses or takes advantage of others.
vamp.
1. f. Woman who uses his charm love to profit at the expense of those appeals.
2. f. femme fatale.
~ fatal. 1. f. Whose power of attraction that brings so unfortunate love herself or those appeals. U. primarily concerned with fictional characters, especially movies, and actresses they represent.
"Open your eyes and look beyond the light, darkness hides many secrets."
Elizabeth Bathory, known as The Blood Countess - was the wife of an earl who was always absent due to his remarks in successive wars. As the Countess got bored with this way of life, and eternal hopes, began to study black magic. This learning led to claims then explain experiments. When the cousin of the countess showed the absence of a significant number of women, suspicious of the strange behaviors of Elizabeth and sent a squad of soldiers to capture it.
proven guilty, Elizabeth saved the execution to have royal blood, but was condemned to live the rest of his life locked in a tower, with doors and windows closed. His accomplices were all executed.
Bathory's story fed many legends about vampirism and inspired many writers. The high level of sadism of the countess, coupled with poverty and illiteracy of the times, contributed to the proliferation of superstitions about vampires and the werewolf in Eastern and Southern Europe.
one of the most mysteriously attractive female figures of all time, who was a living legend in the gray days of the Great War, the first and most fascinating female fatal Seventh Art: Theda Bara, the "vampire of silence "dark goddess of eternal silent film, which is and will forever divas raw dark mother of the screen, as is Lilith the succubus demoniesas. Theda Bara was born
late nineteenth century in Egypt, the daughter of a bohemian love French actress who had become a concubine of a nomad Egyptian prince. Illuminated under the very shadow of the Great Sphinx, it said things like that had come into the world endowed with strange supernatural powers, or had been weaning with the blood of poisonous snakes ... Theda grew on the backs of camels among red sand dunes, to the horizon, ever vigilant of the Pyramids of Giza. He slept in the light of bonfires night of the lords of the desert, to which the suras of the day would turn pagan ancient psalms of the oldest tradition of Osiris. His silhouette was becoming little girl a bit of a dark woman behind the fabric of the Bedouin tents, and their skin became lubricious meat vestal female swim after swim, from childhood to adolescence, in the fertile Nile river aphrodisiac
Well actually it was not exactly true, but more or less I have told it was the fictional life, dressing like a halo of mystery and exoticism, spun William Fox for what was to become the first major actress of her newborn Empire cinema in the first movie star, in short, whose name became myth and receive (get even still) worship. No doubt, between 1915 and 1919, Theda Bara was indeed the living embodiment of oriental sensuality, the vampire coming from the distant desert sands, the goddess prostitute who silently wished all men and all women envied.
Actually, Theodosia Goodman, for that was his real name, was born on July 29 in Avondale, Hamilton County's population near the Egyptian and very little western city of Cincinnati, U.S. state of Ohio . The year, said the gossips, it was 1885, although he always insisted he had been 1890. Theodosia was not worldly if not honest worldly daughter of two Jewish immigrants, and honored
always intellectually restless, were the books their dearest friends and never got too close relations with other kids their age. It was a contradictory girl, lonely, mischievous, moody but reserved, shy but extremely sensual love with the elegance of the dresses and feathered hats of Madrean As he grew, Theda acquired a growing fascination for street theater, by tableau vivant actresses and street poetry readings. In 1899 he joined the Walnut Hills High School, where he successfully overcame his studies while liking for mysticism and black dress.
For a time, Theda was devoted to show at the Alhambra Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then a den of ill repute where the function was alternated with the sale of beer and the public used to break the bottle throwing them downstairs if he was not satisfied with the actions. This never happened in the proceedings of Theda, which would make the local celebrity thanks to his bold and daring costumes lyrics of their songs. Soon after, determined to realize their dreams of acting career start, went to New York, where taking the surname of his mother Theda DeCoppet summoned. In 1908 debuted at the Garden Theater with a feature entitled The Devil, which already began in the archetypal role of evil woman who would bring fame. After alternating different actions in the Garden and the Belasco Theater, in 1911 he joined a traveling theater company of which would become, thanks to its clever ability to seduction, attraction.
was in 1914 when Eva Fox, wife of William Fox, she rolled her eyes and sensed the possibilities of Theda: the young are released in the world of silent films, guided the company's Fox Films, playing a timid role in the film The Stain of Frank Powell. A year later, in 1915, Theda enjoy his first starring lineup Powell in another film, A Fool There Was, being an instrument of an advertising campaign so successful that in just a few weeks, the previously unknown actress went on to become a world-renowned star and the first femme fatale of film history .
mythical and literary image of the "vamp" was to be embodied in a face whose personality would be forever associated with his figure: that of Theda. And it would be in charge William Fox, Frank Powell, who commissioned the film adaptation of A Fool There Was. In an intense and intelligent company's advertising campaign, Theodosia Goodman, actress of the film was converted into Theda Bara, whose name was said to be an anagram of "Arab Death", the "Arab Death." He invented a new life as an exotic Egyptian queen, it stayed at that hotel rooms acclimated harem and perfumed with incense, and made to grant them interviews convincing everyone believed.
"The most famous of vampires, the most daring role, causes all sorts of doom and disaster to thousands of men." This was announced "A Fool There Was." Theda Bara was transformed overnight into a legend. The premiere of the film swept. Still had fifteen years to develop the Production Code of censorship in American cinema, and Theda could show the semi-nudity of her body with a boldness that exceeded far beyond the usual for that time. He thus became the antithesis of Mary Pickford, the actress who plays the virginal purity of the Victorian woman of the time. At a time when the female could only be either good or bad, or caste or prostitute, Theda Bara was personified sensual perversion, desire never confessed, the forbidden: the "Vamp" par excellence. In one of the best scenes in the film, Theda laughed mischievously to a lover to suicide while the caption read: "Kiss me, my fool ..." ("Kiss me, fool me ...")
Between 1915 and 1918, in just three years during World War I ravaged Europe, Theda Bara made over forty films, whether under the direction of Frank Powell, her future husband Charles Brabins or any other filmmaker , reaffirming the archetype of the femme fatale and ruthless, as the embodiment of sensuality and eroticism, and reaping one success after another. Due to its immense popularity, William Fox was able to rub his hands while his company was located at the height of the largest film production companies of the era and laid the foundation of which was to be, until now, one of the largest empires of celluloid .
Contrary to what seems logical in principle, Theda did not enjoy the typical physical beauty and perfect figure, even by the standards of the time, was more plump than skinny. But no one could resist the charm of its mysterious eye makeup siren enhanced by the shadow of "khol" his penetrating gaze intently, his beautiful and profound sadness, the promise of strokes of his coal-black hair. Theda Bara rarely smiled in his movies: the goddess seemed indifferent, oblivious to the world, good and evil, a ghost who was close to death through the magic mirror of the animated screen to show the reflection of their own hidden desires, making them dream that could touch her.
The role of Theda Bara as Cleopatra, under the direction of J. Gordon Edwards, would become one of the most entrenched myths in the history of erotic cinema.
not be "Cleopatra" the ultimate success of Theda Bara. Triumph again in 1918 with works such as "Salome" and "The Forbidden Path." But after the end of World War I his name had already begun to decline. Fox Films in 1919 was forced to pull the blanket and revealing that the legend of Theda Bara, the Egyptian vampire, had been just an advertising campaign, and although the actress still managed to star in films a certain acceptance among the public, as well, "Kathleen Mavourneen" or "La Belle Desire" never succeed to recover his career.
Today, film historians Theda Bara see a great actress victim of itself, devoured by his paper to the point that he could not survive. In many of the scenes played by Theda on his extensive filmography, or in the many photographs she posed for, you can appreciate an artist can adapt to any role, to represent not only the eroticism and perversion but also virginity , motherhood, despair
leave his Theda
retirement in 1923 to star in a special issue of the magazine "Weekly Movie" which was published cover date June 2. Among other items of interest around it, had one on his home life and an interview with her husband Charles Brabin, which declared itself upset because his wife wanted to return to public life. In the monograph, Theda trying to get rid of his fatal female role, and she was a woman of restless intellect who had great love for philosophy and literature.
In 1925, Theda return to action on the big screen, this time with greater success and the hand of James Young, for the film "The Unchastened Woman." But in 1926, after working on two short films that parody, "45 Minutes from Hollywood" and "Madame Mystery" permanently retire from the stage. That same year, Terry Ramsay wrote his book "Bara and the Vampire", which first became public knowledge that the real name was Theodosia Goodman Theda Bara.
Since then, Theda was finally abandoned the home life at his home in Los Angeles dedicated entirely to his passion, reading, and the great love that bound him to her husband. Apparently, during the 30's went on to write a memoir, "What Women Never Tell", which has never been published.
The April 7, 1955 Theda Bara Brabin dying cancer victim. His bones rest in the Great Mausoleum Columbarium Of Memory of Los Angeles. Rest in peace, while the shadow of the eternal vamp, the witch who came from the deserts of the East, the fatal devil, go with us to seduce us with its huge and hypnotic dark eyes. (Toni M. Jover, 2004)
Vampires
FILM: BEAUTIFUL, SEXY AND AMBITIOUS,
by Eduardo Zaramella (half)
Cruel, evil and beautiful ... well have been the vampire film, with few exceptions, during the last seventy years. But times change and the vampires of film as well. In fact, the vampire genre itself is undergoing a metamorphosis agreeable. Previously, soulless bloodsucking vampires were aimed at none other than devour and destroy the human race. Today, begin to appear as tormented beings seeking their place in this miserable planet. Even so-called Slayer are changing. Some even are half vampire!
However, I pay attention to the female character of the vampire. From Carmilla until recently, they have been more evil than them, because they often drank from the Judeo-Christian tradition which regarded women as a symbol of sin and evil. The pure man innocent, he showed up as a victim of a temptation that was shaped like a woman, a very beautiful and sensual woman whose goal was to drag to be pure and untouched into the dark abyss of lust and doom. The tempestuous beauty of terror, he said Shelley.
The male vampire but has always had an aura of aristocratic malice, demonic yes, but dignified and stately. The myth of the female vampire Carmilla has its cusp, created in 1871 by Irish author Sheridan LeFanu. Here we are introduced to a woman whose vampirism is almost innocent, virginal, who does not repent of what is and really seems to feel a special affection, would say love for the mortal girl who acts as narrator of the story.
However, its final destruction reminds us again that we are dealing with an embodiment of evil at all costs must be eradicated from our beloved human world. But certainly what attracts the character is the human side, mysterious, probably by the time LeFanu rigors failed to develop in its full depth.
The current Carmilla yet has no moral censure, and so we have a few vampires who have reached all levels, cinema, comics, television and literature, and even video games, to impose new codes, and who knows, if you move in interest and appeal to their male counterparts.
As a movie, there are several examples that confirm this trend. In Blade II (Guillermo del Toro, 2002) have the character of Nyssa, delicious vampire who is allied with the famed vampire hunter to fight the demons. Nyssa is presented as a character highly attractive, ambitious, courageous and sentiments, whose life ended abruptly in the arms of Blade, but overwhelmed by the sight of his first sunrise.
The peculiarity of this vampire is also the fact it had not been converted but born a vampire. We are therefore faced with a situation that has often been given up on the vampires that can generate offspring. Interesting dilemma, right? Beings born from the dead to be able to create life. This brings us to the eternal question: What is death? Or better: Is there a death? For a man becomes a vampire must necessarily die, the question is whether the word die is the most appropriate.
In any case, Nyssa is not a human who has become a vampire, and this makes it different and fascinating. Too bad his "death" end up possibilities for future appearances throughout the series. Although, being undead, who knows. BOOKS
Vampires. Anthology of Vampire Stories on Women, several authors
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Under the gaze accomplice of the Moon, "the ladies of the night" leave their cold graves, their sterile chambers of nowhere and her incorrupt body, deadly and captivating beauty, stands in the Life and installed again in Nature ... "Vampire Woman" remains on the strength of those who still have not died, a force that absorbs through his blood, because blood is life. Must suck the breath of those who live or can not breathe. You should drink your blood or it will starve ... Wandering in the night, constantly feeding the living, recruiting new members to swell the ranks of his race horrific curse.
This anthology reflects the best female vampire stories have been written over time. From Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu to Red as the blood of Tanith Lee, to Stephen King, Francis Marion Crawford and the golden age of Weird Tales. Stories of vampires : various authors
The vampire has accompanied man since the dawn of time has been his inseparable nightmare, his oldest terror. But that horror is compounded if your ability to destroy teams up an irresistible power of attraction. That is why their reply female, the vampire became the symbol par excellence of all desired and feared at the same time, it was impossible to escape a deadly beauty was only prelude to destruction. Literature had never imagined someone so dangerous: it was not a monstrous creature lurking in the darkness of the graveyard, but a fascinating be moved with ease in society and make known the will of their victims. And the man had never been so frightened because he knew trapped in the clutches of more loss seduction, like the fly waiting to be devoured by the spider.
This anthology brings together a series of stories that are the protagonists of these fearsome vampires, all hitherto unpublished and written in Castilian tions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, precisely the same period when Bram Stoker published Dracula (1897). A quiet residential neighborhood, the beautiful Italian countryside, a remote village in Britain, a Scottish castle or a stylish hotel can provide shelter for the vampire. And it will no longer fear an echo of remote or village tales narrated by fireside: it has become cosmopolitan and now it's there beside us. contain the following stories:
"La belle dame sans merci" Prologue
"The mystery of the Campaign" by Anne Crawford
"Good Ducayne Lady" by Mary E. Braddon
"Aylmer Vance and the Vampire" by Alice and Claude Askew
"A beautiful vampire" by Arabella Kenealy
"The Fate of Madame Cabanel" by Eliza Lynn Linton
vampire
A curious and original work in which the drawings, prose and poetry are intertwined to create a spectacular book about vampiras.Un book featuring original drawings made by Leticia Vera and accompanying text written by Minerva Fraile. The reader, delving into its pages, you will find good vampire, evil, dark, princess ...; vampire Russian, French, Slavic ... and many, many innocent victims.
A book to savor slowly, to enjoy its exquisite designs, the colors of these and care to enjoy your stories with bittersweet, as it is torn between his prose and his macabre and morbid stories of disparate and surprising end. In short, a feast for the eyes and imagination
say that the female vampire has often been associated with lesbianism
FILM I invite you to approach the character of Miriam Blaylock, a female vampire new age, even with anchors in the nineteenth century tradition. Is the character generated by Whitley Strieber in his novel The Hunger, 1981 and reflected on the screen in 1983 in the eponymous film directed by Tony Scott. In both cases the conflict was unleashed with the unexpected aging lover Miriam, John, who in just a few hours reveals her true age: nearly two hundred years. In certain that the end of the lover is near, as has happened to those who have accompanied over the centuries, Miriam begins its approach to Dr. Sarah Roberts, who researches aging gene and seeks to manipulate it to give the human race most coveted dream of eternal life. Chords Satanic
of Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus introduced the first scenes of the film, loaded with chopped approaches, views and disturbing expressionist chiaroscuro cutting. Miriam and John, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, in black with sunglasses, perverse and smoky air of snuff, lurking in a decadent atmosphere eighties disco. The dancers are possessed by the wave strident music and gothic environment. John and Miriam murmur. Immediately, the viewer recognizes victims. Simultaneously but in separate places, the hunter draws his knife collar hanging from their necks, in the form of ankh, the Egyptian symbol of immortality. And the blood flows.
Moreover, the novel introduces us to a Miriam back from the hunt driving a Volvo with the caution that his obsession with accidents dictates. Our ancient vampire, in any case, it has adapted to the new world, the Manhattan crowd, coaches and clubs. Gone are the anemic vampire fangs white nightgown, allergic sunlight, garlic and Christian symbols. We can not forget, however, that Miriam retains some traits from their ancestors that evolved and accommodated to the new world, offering a powerfully seductive profile. It is the vampire of the twentieth century. TAKEN FROM AN ARTICLE The Lone Eternity Faced Vampira:
The Hunger, by Whitley Strieber
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Vanesa Hernández University of Oviedo
The queen of the vampires
Two sisters locked in a mysterious castle is controlled by a mysterious voice without leather that is convinced of its true state: they are vampires. One of them recall the time she was raped by strange villagers and relationship with the sensations running through your body. Three men who come to the castle, they realize that girls need help and try to liberate them from the vampire curse.
female vampirism often been associated with lesbianism
connects IT COULD TO THE SUBJECT OF QUEER AS YOU SEE everything is interrelated
The Vampires (also known as Lesbos vampires in some of its many versions) is one of the most erotic films fantaterror recognized and versatile famous English filmmaker Jess Franco, who was responsible for directing, writing and composing the soundtrack of filmeEl film begins with the telling of the story of the Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda), which was held in a castle, with the sole company of his servants, whom perished at the hands of the Countess, who turned out to be a vampire, for whose veins ran the blood of Count Dracula. Already today, Linda (Ewa Strömberg), a real estate agent, goes with her boyfriend in a nightclub, where he contemplates the actions of a beautiful young woman, fascinated leaves and seems to be connected with some strange dreams that have every night, in which he always displayed a kite, a scorpion and a spider web.
days later, Linda should go to an island to arrange the papers of a mansion with the Countess herself, which happens to be the girl who did the striptease in the night club. The night before the trip to the island, staying at a hotel, where he discovers that the owner (Jess Franco) is a murderer of women, who end up killing. When it comes to the mansion, Linda knows the Countess, establishing between them a strange relationship, as Linda has a deep admiration for Nadine, despite discovering that she is a vampire. At night, Linda is bitten by Nadine, and the next morning, he awakens in a hospital with no memory, but will return to the island, as it is vampirized and feels completely drawn by the Countess.
Linda's boyfriend, Omar (Andrés Monale) seeks help from a doctor who is treating a woman who is under the influence of Nadine.
Censorship and versions [edit] Due to the highly erotic Vampire Lesbos, as for Spain, the distributors changed the title to the vampires and cut the lesbian scenes and nudity, leaving the original footage of 91 minutes in only 82, so there are scenes that are incomprehensible and disjointed. After its premiere, Jess Franco began making more films abroad, as no English producer wanted to take care project financing, which came from the past, due to problems with the Franco and the Church. In other countries like Germany, nearly intact versions were released, although they received ratings that warned of its sexual content. In recent years, various editions have been out on VHS and DVD of the film, both in Spain and abroad, distributed by different companies handle video.
The vampire can be considered a slightly modified version of Dracula, as the bases of the novel in the film, but there are small changes that make it unique to the film by Franco and contribute to changing the vampire myth. In the novel, the hero and the vampire are men, whereas in the film, these two characters are women. Moreover, Renfield, the character who spoke vampirized Dracula in prison, here is a woman too, which is treated by a doctor. Finally, the doctor said (in the book correspond to Val Helsing) does not want to kill the vampire, but converted to eternal life.
However, besides the difference talked about the true intentions of the doctor, there are other much more obvious as the fact that the Countess is invulnerable in the light of day, can walk quietly on the beach in bikinis and swim in the Tues But this character is not reflected in the mirrors, is vulnerable to crucifixes and has the power to subdue their victims after bite (his lackey, the mad woman in the hospital or Linda).
The atmosphere is not Gothic, but quite the opposite, with pop-style furnished homes, predominantly in those years. Only the beginning of the film evokes the past of Count Dracula.
The film constantly draws evocative images that refer to the dream world and have had many interpretations since its release.
From the beginning, the Countess appears lying and bringing his arms toward the camera, as if we were watching and would like vampirism. Then performs an erotic striptease in a room, stripping a mannequin and bit his neck, as if one of his victims, that is provided by Linda, and what will happen to her with Nadine, when known . Linda
suffers constant nightmares that always sees a kite flying, a water scorpion and a spider web: Fabio Huertas, student of Jess Franco films, says the kite symbolizes freedom of Linda, to which end the vampire , represented in Scorpio, so Linda will make his prey, unable to escape, as if trapped in a spider web. Therefore, at the end of the film when the vampire has been destroyed, the scorpion drowns, but the web remains intact, as if Linda continue under the influence of Nadine
Remakes [edit] Jess Franco himself has made, years after the vampires, some remakes of this classic, some confessed and other unspeakable. The clearest case is that of Macumba sexual (1983), as the story is the same, although with some variation in the argument, for which featured some of the actors fetish, as Lina Romay and Antonio Mayans.
In Vampire blues (1999), a woman starts having strange visions in which he meets a vampire. One morning you wake up and buy a t-shirt displayed an image of the vampire Countess Irina von Murnau. The visit to his mansion, but drinking blood and it just sucked out, so you have to stop it to break the curse. To date, the latest remake is Snakewoman (2005), but Franco does not recognize it as such, although keep several points in common with the vampires: a journalist arrives at a mansion to discover the secrets of an artist who died years ago; receives a vampire who has it and with whom he has a bizarre daydream. In addition, this vampire has attacked another woman, who is detained in a mental hospital, awaiting the release that the vampire.
Synopsis The story is led by a young woman living with her father and a few servants in an old castle which is located in the most secluded of Styria. Life for Laura is very solitary and simple, except for a childhood memory of where she slept in the arms of a young woman is awakened by the pain of two needles in his neck and when they find they do not see anybody but Laura . Life goes normal until a coach has a big crash in front of his modest home, the vehicle was carrying an elegant lady and young daughter, which is faint and can not conclude travel. Upon seeing the strange situation, the father of Laura is committed to caring for the young until they recover.
She called Carmilla, it becomes very fond of her, who recognizes her as the girl who had her in his arms as a child but does not take much importance. outset Carmilla shows a rather strange behavior as: wake up after noon and locks herself in her room no sign of that is in the room. The strangest thing is that his behavior shows much interest in Laura, so that it becomes almost a crush on her part. Topics
[edit] The story itself shows many features Gothic terror highlighting the popular stereotype of the vampire and the bewilderment of the characters against the supernatural events, increasing to become an ecstasy and terror at a time.
should also be noted the subtle influence of erotic content that relates to vampires, lesbian character. Sheridan Le Fanu take that subject was taboo for the time rate but knew how to raise it so that the reader of the time was approaching the subject.
a pioneer in its genre [edit] Carmilla was one of the first vampire stories to be written, being the forerunner of many successful plays, one of those cases is Bram Stoker who based on many characteristics of Sheridan Le Fanu to write his work. This is highlighted in Jonathan Harker's encounter with the vampires of the castle.
Almost all vampire stories have the basic structure of Carmilla, starting with the "attack" from a "death - resurrection" by the vampire, and finally to the "hunting - destruction" where the creature is pursued to destruction.
Le Fanu was based on the legendary true story of the beautiful Countess Elizabeth Bathory (the Blood Countess) to create the beautiful Carmilla (Countess Mircalla), things like the physical description of Carmilla, the dark carriage in which she walks at night to seduce their victims, the Guardian (mother or aunt) very similar to Dorotoya Csentens (Darbula) or Mircalla was the last of his dynasty damn are obvious and similar between real and literary history. No need to argue that lesbianism or bisexuality of real and fictional characters or the appearance of the cat in both cases, stating that in the Castle of Elizabeth Bathory had an army of evil black cats, cats that she conjured up as well, By all accounts, took the form of these to attack. Carmilla becomes nocturnal cat to attack. To do stress upon the physical appearance of the character of reality and literary lady belonging to the high nobility, very high, with an elegant demeanor bordering on melancholy, exquisitely long black hair, big cats eyes full of mystery and very very black, petite and sensual red mouth, long hands as needles and skinned.
film adaptation film Carmilla was taken first as Vampyr, the witch vampire in 1932 by Carl Dreyer, the film being an adaptation that follows the style of the complete book A glass darkly which included Carmilla. Decades later, his characters are built Karstein called Trilogy, consisting of The Vampire Lovers (The Vampire Lovers) directed by Roy Ward Baker in 1970, Lust for a Vampire (Lust for a Vampire in Spain, Coffin for a vampire in Argentina), directed by Jimmy Sangster in 1971, and Twins of Evil (Twins of Evil), directed by John Hough in the same year .
Mircalla history
Imagine an individual, evil enough, it kills. In certain circumstances, suicide can be transformed into vampires. This vampire begins to visit the living as they sleep. The latter were killed and buried once, almost invariably become vampires. That's what happened to the beautiful Mircalla, which was visited by one of those monsters. My ancestor Vordenburg, whose title I discovered this story and in the course of the studies which he had devoted much deepened in this area. Among other things, concluded that he was suspected of vampirism of the countess, in life, was his idol. He was horrified at the thought that his remains could be desecrated in a posthumous execution. He left a curious document which proves that the vampire, once deprived of his double life, is condemned to an even more terrible. He decided, therefore, preserve the possibility of his beloved Mircalla. Simulating a study tour, he moved to Karstein and managed to remove the trace and the memory of the tomb of Mircalla. But after a few years near the end of his days, thinking the world was soon to leave, another point of view what he had done and was appalled.
Lilith as
vampire queen Lilith diabolical condition has led him to be also the Queen of the Vampires. Not only has sex with men who later murdered, but also feeds on its blood. It is in this embodiment where Lilith is equated with different female deities and monsters found in classical mythology, Lamia, and lamias Empusa, daughters Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, the harpies and striga, too macabre nocturnal visitors, the harpies, assistants of the Erinyes or Furies, the Fates or Fates, the Gray and the Gorgons, sinister elderly inhabitants of hell. In all these figures are repeated references to death of men and boys.
Other related mythological references to Lilith are found in the Brunnhilde of the Nibelungs, or the devil Babylonian Lilu. The same Queen of Sheba from Solomon is a transcript of Lilith. Layil etymologically from the Hebrew, (night), and is depicted as a hairy night demon or a very largos.Las haired woman carrying variations Lilith myth to become seductive in their own children of Adam and Eve (Cain addressed with words of comfort and rest after the death of Abel), or assimilate with our own paradise snake snake's body while giving Satan gave a human face and voice that seduced Eva (as in the frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel). An account of Primo Levi reminds us that Lilith is the lover of God the Creator, and who lives in the Red Sea a court commanding demons. And another tradition states that Samael, then Satan, the fallen angel becomes a pair of Lilith, and even seduce Eva together to beget Cain.
Erinyes or Furies in Greek mythology, the Furies (in Ancient Greek Erinúes Έρινύες of ἐρίνειν erínein, 'pursue') were female personifications of vengeance, to pursue those guilty of certain crimes. They were also called Eumenides (Greek Εύμενίδες, 'voluntary'), antiphrasis used to avoid his wrath when his real name was pronounced. According to tradition, this name would have been used for the first time after the acquittal of Orestes by the Areopagus (described below), and then used to refer to the good side of the Furies.
In Athens was also used euphemistically σεμναί θεαί semnai theai periphrasis, 'venerable goddesses. He also alluded to as χθόνιαι θεαί chthóniai theaí 'chthonic goddesses,' and they applied the epithet Praxídiceas (Πραξιδικαι), 'implementing the laws. " Finally, in Roman mythology are known as Furies (Latin Furiæ or say, 'terrible').