The Vampire Myth

This is not a story on count dracula...my post is about the myth relating to vampires and how it started...actually a few days back after a very tired day, I was switching channels on the telly when I came across this exciting episode on vampires on History...I'll bet you are not interested but I will go on anyway...so here it is...

Mankind has been fascinated by the stories of witches and vampires...this fascination is probably born of a fear the evil force...everytime there would be a death and the cause of it not properly understood the primitive man would attribute it to supernatural causes.
Soon this fascination reached such tremendous heights in ancient society that some people, eminent historians and archaeologists started out on amission to find the truth behind such theories. These people came to be known as the vampire seekers. The vampire seekers travelled long distances, to remote villages - places of mysterious deaths and queried the village folks in detail...different people came up with different stories...but in all those stories invariably, there was mention of an odd queer looking man seen with the victim who was never seen before or after the death(s).
The vampire hunters did not give up...they continued to study circumstances, travel places after places, talk to people, to bring up facts relevant to their research...all the findings pointed to the odd man (who was allegedly not human). In the end based on circumstantial evidence the vampire theory in a way came to be sanctified by the vampire seekers.
Thereafter, centuries passed and medical science advanced - and the so called 'mysterious' diseases and deaths came to be explained by the doctors as properly diagnosed diseases. For example tuberculosis. Before it came to be discovered as a disease, people had already died not knowing what they were dying of a disease.
The vampire theory fell apart but by then the myth had been set in the minds of the people. And further enlivened by Bram Stoker in his novel and Christopher Lee in the role of Count Dracula the myth continues to lives on