Introduction
The figure of The vampire, a creature clad in darkness and legend,  who   awakens at night and drinks the life substance of his victims in order to replenish his own, has haunted man's imagination for centuries. There is a wealth of material in the legends, hear-says, witness accounts, and true facts reported over the centuries to give fuel to a compulsive fascination with the horror of  "the walking dead."
    The fear of the vampire does not arise only from fantasy  but  frequently from  substantial and  documented reporting. Europe, and especially its eastern borders, was at times plagued by hordes of vampires who literally bled the population of medieval villages to death. The more precise investigations of science were summoned by local priests or the lords of the manor in attempts to put an end to the horrors perpetuated at night in their districts. The visiting scientists discovered that vampires had an extensive history and a clear lineage of their own and were not, as was previously thought, simply a local phenomenon. Their origins could in fact be traced to ancient Egyptian times when the cult and worship of the dead was ritually represented by ceremonies in which the acolytes revered a divinity that looked like a dark bird. This sinister bird represented the flight of the soul at the moment of death and its journey into the world of shadows. The dead, who were "alive" in their own world, occasionally came to plague the inhabitants of the world of light and sometimes even took them back into the unknown, 'stealing their lives away.