Re: Vampires in Christianity
In the olden days over here in England the Christian clergy propagated the myth of vampires to hold onto their congregations, they would scare people with becoming vampires after death if they left the Church…
I think how it must have started was thieves and bandits must have used tombs and morgues for hideout places and only come out at night so people started mistaking them for vampires, also corpses would sometimes be stolen and people explained it by saying the person became a vampire and flew off… English people in the olden days actually use to go to check the graves of their loved ones to make sure they hadn’t turned into a vampire.