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Where do vampires come from?
The Natural History of the Vampire* gives these examples as possible people who might become vampires in death, as according to old legends:
- Dead wizards
- Werewolves
- Heretics
- Outcasts
- Illegitimate offspring of illegitimate children
- Anyone killed by a vampire
- Suicides
- Unavenged deaths
- Untimely/ unhappy deaths
- Witches
- Murderers
- Excommunicants
- Robbers/ villains
- Accursed
- An unburied body which has had sun or moonlight fall upon it (Specifically in China)
- An unburied body that has been leapt over by a cat
- Those without full rights before death (Slavonic)
- Children born or conceived on a great Church holiday. (Slavonic)
- Still born children and unbaptised children (Rise as vampires 7 years after their death, Slavonic)
- Any animal (including cat) that has passed over an unburied body (Slavonic)
- Anyone who has eaten the flesh of a sheep killed by a wolf (Slavonic)
- Perjurers, liars
- 7th sons
- Man born with a caul (a piece of the placenta that may become stuck to the child's head as it is born. Easily wiped off, but many cultures have interpreted it as sign, some good, some bad, of what that child will be like when grown.)
- A pregnant woman who has been looked at (especially after her 6th month) by a vampire, her child as a great risk of becoming a vampire.
- A shadow of a living man falling upon an unburied body.
- A nun stepping over an unburied body
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