Vampires of Mythology | From Africa to Australia

Vampires are among the most popular monsters of fiction, and among the most widely spread monsters of folklore. Every culture on earth has some variant of a creature that subsists on the blood of the living. Some resemble human beings such as Dearg Due from Ireland, while others such as Asanbosam of Africa look like monsters from one's worst nightmares. This program will cover some of the most famous and most fearsome vampires of folklore, from the classic Eastern European monsters that influenced Dracula, to the bizarre Yara-ma-yha-who of Aboriginal Australian legend!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
"Dracula (1992) Ambience Music" by Mister Ambience
CLIPS:
Stock footage of smoke, sunrise, Congo, New England, Australia
OPENING:
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
Antonio J Manzanedo
McGibs art
Alvaro Nebot
Charlye Ortega
Wraith DT art
Itamar Reiner
Johan Egerkrans
Matteo Spirito
Fabian Quintero
000Fesbra000 art
CHR_Ali3 art
E Winters art
Tessa Geniets
Dominik Rainova
Jorge De Castro
Kellie O'Sullivan
Namusw art
Angelis Kra
Eurephora art
Daniel Zrom
Edvard Munch
Alex Ross
Ethan Mathis
Jacopo Schiavo
Jonathan Opgenhaffen
Stefan Akin
Wen Jie
Martin Fackova
Sebastien Hue
REFERENCES:
• VAMPIRE ORIGINS Reveal...
www.history.com/topics/folklo...
www.britannica.com/topic/vampire
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
www.ancient-origins.net/myths...
www.vampires.com/asanbosam-an...
www.mysteryoftheworld.com/pos...
www.ancient-origins.net/myths...
www.ancient-origins.net/histo...
www.pbs.org/video/7-mercy-bro...
newenglandhistoricalsociety.c...
cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Yara...
pantheon.org/articles/y/yara-...
abookofcreatures.com/2015/06/...
www.irishcentral.com/roots/de...
gotireland.com/2012/10/11/iris...
www.neworleans.com/things-to-...
meettheslavs.com/strzyga/
www.lifetolegend.com/living-s...
www.amnh.org/exhibitions/myth...
www.americanghostwalks.com/ar...
wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-...
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  • @mattvee4827
    @mattvee48272 ай бұрын

    Great video! Vampires are my favorite mythological beings 🦇

  • @DaughterofAnubis
    @DaughterofAnubis2 ай бұрын

    I’m so impressed with the ones you selected, yet you left a few others. Perhaps you can do a part 2 sometime?

  • @MythologyUnleashed

    @MythologyUnleashed

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm sure we can do that! It may come faster the more likes this comment gets!!

  • @DaughterofAnubis

    @DaughterofAnubis

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MythologyUnleashed Very well.

  • @yolman25
    @yolman252 ай бұрын

    One of my favorite episodes so far. I love vampires

  • @soccerandtrack10

    @soccerandtrack10

    2 ай бұрын

    Im sure vampires love you too. In a different way...

  • @tammycox9789

    @tammycox9789

    Ай бұрын

    Me too

  • @verawalters6673
    @verawalters66732 ай бұрын

    I love Vampire Lure.

  • @dragowolfraven3806
    @dragowolfraven38062 ай бұрын

    Yes to more vampire videos.😊

  • @elizabethcoen
    @elizabethcoen2 ай бұрын

    A video like this is just what I need after a long and somewhat frustrating Statistics exam.

  • @gnasher688

    @gnasher688

    2 ай бұрын

    Hope it went well 🙏

  • @elizabethcoen

    @elizabethcoen

    2 ай бұрын

    @@JFK-co4fq That they do, but I wonder if they’ve ever had a go at finding Standard Deviation. That formula in particular drives me crazy! No matter how much I try, I just can’t understand it.

  • @sarahhurst701

    @sarahhurst701

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@elizabethcoenLol indeed my friend.👍✌️😎

  • @peterjuhl-yh3ne

    @peterjuhl-yh3ne

    16 күн бұрын

    R U an energy vampire, feeding on people listening 2 statiztix?

  • @richterkennedy2101
    @richterkennedy21012 ай бұрын

    Alucard of Castlevania fame. although only half a vampire, Absolute badass. Vampire hunter D is an honorable mention

  • @CuteDwarf11
    @CuteDwarf112 ай бұрын

    Please do a video on the Asanbosam!

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_2 ай бұрын

    Great episode! The vampire is maybe the most universally known monster on Earth.

  • @noellehollar4347
    @noellehollar43472 ай бұрын

    This was an awesome episode! I would definitely love to see future episodes dedicated to the individual creatures discussed here. I didn't know there were so many vampire legends across the world. 😃

  • @Roctev
    @Roctev2 ай бұрын

    Amazing content as always, never knew there were so many Vampire variants in so many cultures, truly an education, Thanks for sharing such knowledge.

  • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
    @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg41152 ай бұрын

    As a Dungeon Master myself, this video is gold.

  • @SilverWolfMage
    @SilverWolfMage2 ай бұрын

    My personal fave. of vampires would be European vampire, such as Dracula, and I also like the Jiang-Shi. I didn't know, for the mythology of the Jiang-Shi, that a person could become one by being struck by lightening, or an animal stepping/hopping over the corpse. Always learning something new with your videos! Well done, and thank you!

  • @dragowolfraven3806
    @dragowolfraven38062 ай бұрын

    Vampires are one of my favorite monsters in fiction/video games/anime. Two of my DeviantArt OCs are vampires.😊

  • @garveyneal1672
    @garveyneal1672Ай бұрын

    1:34 Eastern European Vampire 3:31 Jiang-Shi 6:02 Asanbosam 7:38 Mercy Brown, Exeter Vampire 10:21 Jacques St. Germain 11:56 Strzyga 14:01 Yara-ma-Yha-Who 16:49 El Chupacabra 18:29 Drearg Due

  • @merlapittman5034
    @merlapittman50342 ай бұрын

    More videos about the vampire legends of different areas would be great, especially lesser known myths and stories!

  • @avacornthelastponybender8583
    @avacornthelastponybender8583Ай бұрын

    I'll always find it funny that parents would make up these monster stories to keep their kids from running into the woods at night as if what can actually happen to you if you get lost in the dark woods isn't scary enough😂

  • @dammitanothername

    @dammitanothername

    Ай бұрын

    Quite often I think that is what is going on. However, there are native stories of cryptids. Up north they have stories of "little people". A kid actually went missing. about preschool age. There was nothing for as far as the eye could see, and he straggled behind, parents went back to the dip where he should have been just moments ago and he was gone. You'd think maybe a sneaky wolf got him or something. Except he came back when he was about 18. No other tribes had him all that time (they looked, there wasn't any place to hide him), and there's no way a preschooler could have hid and survived 14ish years on their own. He said he lived with the little people. Long dead now. The elders that knew him are passing away. So this was quite a long time ago. Frankly, at that time the dominant society would pretty much like for every native kid to go missing and never come back. So no one outside of the native community cared. believe, don't believe, i don't care. Just use caution when you're in the wilderness. i don't receive messages or replies.

  • @savannahshepherd2283

    @savannahshepherd2283

    Ай бұрын

    Beware humans the most notorious predators

  • @louisbrown4620

    @louisbrown4620

    Ай бұрын

    Daily life was extremely deadly until about 100 years ago. We really can’t comprehend why they made the choices they did. We’ve never walked in their shoes.

  • @ghosthunter2938

    @ghosthunter2938

    Ай бұрын

    They are real ........ Like the one who made them is .........real ...........

  • @Fancymanfromsomewhere

    @Fancymanfromsomewhere

    Ай бұрын

    Except if you think about all the different countries with similar tales who, in older times, had none or very little contact with each other.

  • @ambarrose
    @ambarrose2 ай бұрын

    As always you never fail to make episodes that I love. I guess the main allure for vampires is the idea of everlasting life. Me personally? I would rather die eventually and stay dead, thank you very much. Because, if we go back to the origins (Eastern Vampire aka reanimated corpse) I really don't want anything to do with it. 😂😅 At this point I wish I could somehow know more about the people who work for this channel. Somehow I find that your videos echo thoughts and ideas that I've found in my own mind. the way you develop your storytelling just feels deeply familiar But, hey! I'm as obsessed with Mythology as you all seem to be. It's a true passion.

  • @sarahhurst701
    @sarahhurst701Ай бұрын

    This was incredibly well done. I remain ever fascinated by vampires.🌹🔥💜🌍

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE2 ай бұрын

    Really good video on their history

  • @kimbelsimpson7535
    @kimbelsimpson7535Ай бұрын

    This video is FREAKY because there's so many different vampires that I wasn't aware of fascinating.

  • @RNAxRibose
    @RNAxRiboseАй бұрын

    Watching this while enjoying my dry herb vaporizer. This my all time favorite episode

  • @bryancroidragon457
    @bryancroidragon4572 ай бұрын

    Very informative. It was nice being introduced to some I didn't know about.

  • @lisamariehennessey4532
    @lisamariehennessey4532Ай бұрын

    Awesome video 🎉thank you 👍

  • @rogueascendant6611
    @rogueascendant66112 ай бұрын

    It could be said that Philippines version of vampires - Aswang and Manananggal, are listed to the whole bloodsucking monster mythos.

  • @beaudoty3465
    @beaudoty34652 ай бұрын

    Can you please make a video about leprechauns?

  • @PerceptionVsReality333

    @PerceptionVsReality333

    Ай бұрын

    Good idea 💡

  • @harry_f317
    @harry_f31725 күн бұрын

    More vampire myths please!

  • @sapphirejade5029
    @sapphirejade5029Ай бұрын

    I'm always impressed with such folklore and stories full of legendary twists and turns. So far, my favorite vanpire myth/legend has gotta go to Jaques St. Germain of New Orleans. Currently working on a suspense/mystery tale inspired by the myth/legend. It's so much fun to work on it and I can’t wait to finish it someday.😆

  • @aidanhever3369
    @aidanhever33692 ай бұрын

    Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico is one of the worst movies for its cultural accuracy. The Chupacabra is depicted as an extraterrestrial creature that resembles a bug-eyed lizard or a dog with spikes on its back that was discovered in Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s. I have no idea why they depict it as a purple sasquatch that is not native to Mexico. The real monsters of Mexico are La Llorona, Ahuizotl, and El Charro Negro.

  • @chadfalardeau5396
    @chadfalardeau53962 ай бұрын

    More vampire videos please?

  • @larrymccombs1271
    @larrymccombs1271Ай бұрын

    Another video about my favorite nocturnal monster

  • @Random_Chiroptera
    @Random_Chiroptera2 ай бұрын

    No mention of Aswang? Or perhaps Pricolici?

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden241952 ай бұрын

    "Put down the cross, Robin. That only works in movies. Besides, I'm an atheist. FIRE!!! ...On the other hand..." -Countess (from the 1980s' vampire film, "Once Bitten.")

  • @al145
    @al1452 ай бұрын

    That feel when you feel weird walking into people's houses without being invited in, but you know you aren't a vampire because you eat a lot of garlic

  • @romainekapel3138
    @romainekapel3138Ай бұрын

    I loved these. Thank you a lot! Keep up the good work

  • @user-up7ws7fj4i
    @user-up7ws7fj4iАй бұрын

    My favorite vampire is Dracula!😮❤

  • @al145
    @al1452 ай бұрын

    I also had a laugh wondering if someone could prevent a vampire from getting them with a series of garden hoses, or a sprinkler, or does the running water need to be natural?

  • @al145

    @al145

    2 ай бұрын

    "we trapped dracula between the kitchen and the bathroom by leaving the sink and shower on. It costs hundreds of dollars in water bill, but it's worth it"

  • @josephrivera3649
    @josephrivera3649Ай бұрын

    I recognize some of the asanbosam art work it was from vampire the masquerade

  • @renelagrisola3048
    @renelagrisola3048Ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @kelvinmarzan3107
    @kelvinmarzan31072 ай бұрын

    Vampires are my favorite monsters including chupacabra, and vampires in New Orleans 🧛🏾‍♂️

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    20:51 i didnt know the doctor was related to frog type aleins...

  • @bethanysmith5856
    @bethanysmith5856Ай бұрын

    Vampires and dragons are practically universal creatures

  • @nicholaslehner3004
    @nicholaslehner30042 ай бұрын

    I want a full video on the Strigoi.

  • @user-zd7lm7ge1t
    @user-zd7lm7ge1tАй бұрын

    Love vampires 😮

  • @ninocolegado
    @ninocolegadoАй бұрын

    You forgot the Philippines about Aswang and others types as well

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    6:55 this is the stories of mothman.

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    14:25 this just sounds like a really weird real animal...

  • @trackerjacker0013
    @trackerjacker001316 күн бұрын

    St. Germaine is also loosely referenced in RDR2 there is a series of stranger missions that have Mr Morgan deal with a vampire. You got a solid knife out of it too. For the weapon geeks and platinum nerds like myself out there. Still favor a tomahawk over the knife I that game though.

  • @PerceptionVsReality333
    @PerceptionVsReality333Ай бұрын

    My favorite vampire variant is the Nosferatu.

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    13:22 theres both the evil girl that can be a owl,and a native american creture that can be a owl.

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    10:43 thats not weird,the same name and from france for a guy from france people in the country said he was immortal. The immortal version was 1700s...

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    13:22 day shaw vue/i dont know why?.../tv show?...

  • @marcusyates3044
    @marcusyates30442 ай бұрын

    Who is the TRUE god of the underworld/afterlife?

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    3:13 supernatural show insperation?...

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    6:44 this is actuelly the origin of mothman,isnt it?...

  • @WalkingMoments
    @WalkingMoments2 ай бұрын

    I found an ancient coven of real vampires here in Japan...

  • @Paddyman8869
    @Paddyman8869Ай бұрын

    Nothing about the Abhartach

  • @Ekaterinats2005
    @Ekaterinats2005Ай бұрын

    I thought vampires are vengeful ghosts?

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    3:13 they cant eat waffer cookies if their the russian type vampire?...

  • @sigmar4564
    @sigmar456423 күн бұрын

    Mu2024

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack102 ай бұрын

    4:49 china is connected more to nazi zombies?... i only heard zombies are made from 115=lightning looking,but its not lightning in call of duty.

  • @verawalters6673
    @verawalters66732 ай бұрын

    Satan

  • @user-zd7lm7ge1t
    @user-zd7lm7ge1tАй бұрын

    😂😢😮😊😅

  • @NezukoSatoru
    @NezukoSatoruАй бұрын

    CASTLEVANIA INTRODUCE ME SOME OF VAMPIRES & OTHER CHARACTERS HERE❤

  • @elsupersexysayayin.1089
    @elsupersexysayayin.10892 ай бұрын

    I got another type of vampire for you'll in Mexican folklore (Mostly from my home land) there are tales of vampiric creatures called "Brujas" (Witches) how ever they're not like the typical witch that you know, it is said they look like any normal person during the day, but at night they turn into a harpie-like creature half human half turkey or owl, and they fly to a house where a family has a new born baby, and when the whole family is asleep the Bruja will stick out of her beak a long tongue which she can stretch all the way into the room where the new born baby is sleeping then she will proceed to suck the blood off of the baby till she gets satisfied then flies away leaving the parents to find the lifeless body of their baby the next morning.