COUNT DOGULA?!?!?!?!

A vampire can occur if a cat or dog walks across a fresh grave...

Imma hafta call BULLSHIT on this one...vampires...the entire myth of vampires revolves around BATS...NOBODY in the history of Vampirical Volumes has EVER turned into a dog or cat...WEREWOLVES are associated with DOGS...and cats have always been associated with WITCHCRAFT...it wouldn't hurt this colostomy bag connoisseur to read a damn book...if dogs and cats were responsible for hatching a vampire simply by walking across a fresh grave...they would be extinct animals we could ONLY view in historical texts...man...in his infinite wisdom is ill equipped to handle things they do NOT immediately understand...if any of them thought this were true these animals would have been hunted and eradicated from the animal kingdom...because that is what we do...we protect ourselves from imaginary things we think might pose the potential to HARM us in anyway...Bram Stoker used BATS as his primary production critter for creating Count Dracula...because???  People of that era feared BATS...especially those they saw attacking animals such as COWS...they witnessed the bite marks the BATS left behind and figured that if these tiny winged creatures were capable of attacking an enormous object such as a herd of cattle...then they must be able to HARM humans as well...it didn't help when horrendous mass murderers took advantage of this myth to advance their own methods of murder...they quickly began to BUY into the myth and decide for themselves that they needed extra protection...in the form of garlic, crosses and wooden stakes...they didn't however get rid of the family PET...they kept them around as an early warning system...I love mythology...especially from this era and older tales...because damn near every mythical creature we create from our imaginations are based in REALITY...blood letting rituals still exist to this very day...in several tribal communities...these rituals can be spiritual in nature or a rite of passage...they have been in existence for centuries...Unicorns...dragons...and even our own Sasquatch sightings...all came from something based in reality...whether it was a zebra standing alongside a rhino at just the right angle that promoted the idea of the unicorn...or a malformed horse like creature that somebody witnessed in the wild at one time...NOBODY just wakes up one day and invents an entirely NEW species of animal...it doesn't happen...our imaginations are closely tied with what we SEE in our physical world...we animate them and give them powers they wouldn't NORMALLY have...but the basis for the creature and the NEW design is steeped in a realistic figure...this can be easily proven by looking at ancient hieroglyphs and cave drawings...these people had very limited knowledge...as far as we can tell...which baffles historians...archaeologists and theorists around the globe...since their depictions resemble things we have ONLY become familiar with in recent modern times...these people didn't wake up one day sitting around the camp fire discussing what NEW creature they could draw on the walls to confuse the masses that came behind them...they depicted things they were witnessing in order to tell a story...it is human nature to pass down tales and folklore from one generation to the next...these 'RUMORS' are based in fact at some point in the history of the civilization they are told in...if you travel around the planet...or just watch a few things on the History Channel or Discovery...you can witness some of these ancient artifacts that have been left behind for us to puzzle over...objects that look remarkably like things we have only begun to create...such as manned flight...airplane like objects...complete with rudders and wings...NOT bird like creatures...since birds do NOT possess...NOR have they ever...an upright tail fin...uniquely designed depictions of humanoid like creatures completely decked out in space suits for interstellar flight...these things are found in places around the world where ancient civilizations had NO method of transportation to other continents...the same can be said for the remainder of our myths and unknown history...at some point in time SOMEBODY witnessed SOMETHING they either identified correctly...or misinterpreted...if you try and use your imagination to dream up a truly unique and individual character you will undoubtedly think NO other such creature exists...and you may be right,,,in your current configuration...but the images that you drew it from come from SOMETHING you have witnessed with your own eyes...this in NO way means that this tidbit is authentic...there is a HUGE difference between imagination and ignorance...keep in mind that DUMB people are a plentiful resource...perhaps they should be our alternative energy source!!!