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can anyone tell me what is the difference between Vampires and Vampyres ?

well I am going to catch hell for this one but it looks like the diffrence is one simple letter

you're right dragonspawn, there is a letter difference. it's a preference spelling. Hollywood created the vampire. So us real vampyres prefer the other spelling to avoid a link to the movie vampire.

I don't claim that this offering is true, but I was told it was a gender thing, vampire for male, vampyre for female.

No no, lol...Its something the community started. I explain this in the Haunted Times article the Vampire Nation has in this issue. Just like Magic/Magick, Magic represents stage magicians whereas the other form started by Aleister Crowley was to differentiate that from occultists who use it. So if you see Magick that means real magick and not on the stage if you believe in Magick that is, lol.

The community uses Vampire to mean the one in mythology, novels and movies, etc.

Vampyre means the subculture that identifies themselves as living vampyres and not that of fiction.

Some in the community don't want to mess with it and use the vampire spelling for both. Generally if someone wants to identify as female specifially they will put 'ress' on the end of vampyre (vampryss or vampiress) Here they don't always differentiate but many, probably most whether male or female just say vampyre.

I always thought Vampyre was simply the old english spelling of it.

Thanks LadyNightDancer that's really interesting. I knew the reason for magic/k but hadn't applied the theory to vampyre

i too had thought the difference was in the age in which it is used, i thought of vampyre as being more like the original spelling and like names for most places and things evolved through time.

I don't know, I always thought it was the same sort of thing as women/womyn...I've even seen wimmin...

Personally I don't care, no matter how many times you change the friggin' name to some different more unique thing it's still the same damn subject...

Wimmin is slag spelling (to be down wid da kidz) isn't it?

Actually after reading it in several feminist books...no I don't think it is...I think someone out there actually takes that spelling seriously ...

I think it’s just two different names for the same thing like grey and gray of color and colour.

“A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet”

They're both Americanisms though?

so far of all the research and also the post here I would approove the mention of the vampire for fiction and movies and all, as for vampyre to the ones living as or are real vmapyres.

As you can see, it depends on who you ask...What will get even more confusing, when you ask them to specificly define what a vampyre/vampire is...

Does it really matter. People know what a person is talking about, be it vampire or vampyre.

LadyNightdancer said it as I have on many threads lol my sister well said.. maybe now that someone other then myself saying it the point will be easy for others o see not that it is not only my words

Vampire = hollywood,vampyre=the real deal.

Vampire = hollywood-A bastard name for real Vampyres . Vampyre=the real deal . A noble and wonderful spelling . The true and proper spelling .

Hollywood sucks people . At least Vamprye wise .

You say "vampire" and I say "vampyre"....both ryme with desire, so whats the big deal?
I''ll tell you. The spelling with the "y" originated about five or so years ago with the on line Real Vampyre community. The first site I saw it used was "The Vampire Church". The "Real Vampyres"were those who drink blood, and later applied to those who take energy, or "Psychic Vampyres".
The original spelling is the mundane use if the word, most people use this form.

i also believe that it depends on which region you are comming from on how you use the word vampyre/vampire...although the spellings are a bit different the meaning of the word stays the same as far as i know.

The difference is only in determining the self-perception of individuals and communities.

Those that want to seperate from the popular fictional mythos use the 'y', whilst it too is now becoming cliched.

The can be no 'correct' spelling, as there can be no 'correct' definition of what a vampire is.

Since this thread will go round in circles and the question has largely been answered, I am closing it.