Werewolfs and Vampires

People around the world think of vampires as that undead creature living by night and sleeping in a coffin by day going out each night filled with blood lust hunting for a human to prey on for their life giving blood for the blood is life and the life is blood. However quite possibly we as humans don't know everything we think we do about vampires. Maybe just maybe it's not quite as black and white an issue as we think it is.

According to popular legend and popular fiction the victim of a vampire either dies or becomes a vampire. Ann Rice brought vampires to life like they never had been before. Who can not imagine Lestat wondering the dark alley ways and passages of New Orleans French Quarter. I like to think that if there really are vampires that walk among us that they would be like Lestat and the other vampires that Ann Rice brought to life in her books.

True Blood the new HBO vampire series has proved to be one of the most popular vampire TV series ever made. The HBO Series True Blood is loosely based on the Southern Vampire Chronicles which is a series of books by Charlaine Harris. True Blood has proved to be a huge success as the HBO series has developed quite a cult following as the American public appears to be interested in anything and everything about Vampires.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the most popular Vampire TV Series of our time and it and its spin off Angel still have a huge cult following.

Who doesn't think of what just might be hidden just beyond the dark of that night time window. What could be out there looking in. Is it possible there really is a vampire out there seeking out who it might prey upon.

And if you yourself were offered eternal life and the opportunity to live and walk through the centuries to come what would you choose. And how hard a choice would it actually be. Could you turn down eternal life or would you choose to embrace the night.

Before you go vampire hunting use care that what you are hunting really is a vampire. Quite possibly if you feel you have a vampire problem you should use the below vampire prevention methods.

1. Scatter mustard seeds across your roof and at your doors. The theory is that the vampire must stop and count the seeds before it can proceed.

2. Hang strings of garlic above the entrances to your house. Especially at the doors.

3. Paint your door ways with Holy Water.

4. Obtain sea salt that has been blessed and place it under your bed to keep vampires at bay.

5. Hang crucifixes that have been blessed through out your house.

6. Wear a blessed cross on a chain around your neck to keep away the vampires.The cross should be blessed and made of silver and the chain should be silver.

7. Use care with whom you invite into your house. It is said in most legends that a vampire must be invited in.

It is said that a werewolf is a person who has the ability to change from all human into a wolf human hybrid usually on the night of the full moon. It is a common belief that werewolf's are made when a human is scratched or bitten by a werewolf. The werewolf was and is a common legend all across Europe and it was a belief held by some American Indians even before the white man came to America.

The Navajo believed very much in shape shifters and werewolf's and many still do so today. In the desert southwest of the USA there have been many strange killings in modern times supposedly carried out by werewolf's.

Werewolf's have been hunted down for centuries all across Europe and some people have even been tried , convicted and executed for the crime of being a werewolf. In the years from 1764 through 1767 a large wolf like creature that walked up right on its hind feet and wore shreds of clothes killed upwards of 80 men, women, and children in central and southern France.

The American Navajo people have a great fear of witches dressed in wolfs clothing. Something that was said to be over seven feet tall that had a human shape and wolf features and wore some clothing killed hundreds of animals and at least 22 men , women, and children in northern New Mexico and southern Arizona in 1938 through 1939. It was always described the same and it was later said that Navajo Holy Men were finally able to kill the witch that was changing into a wolf and doing the attacks. It is still carried as an open case today.

So something was out there in France and in the dessert southwest of the USA killing people. Was it a werewolf or werewolf's we will probably never know. But it is a historical fact that the murders happened. Some police in the USA murders said the killings were the most brutal murders they had ever seen. Some victims were ripped to pieces with body parts thrown around.