뱀파이어 are mythological 또는 folkloric beings who subsist 의해 feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead 또는 a living person/being. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures, and may go back to "prehistoric times", the term vampire was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western 유럽 from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known 의해 different names, such as vrykolakas...