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I'm sure this has been covered before but I'm looking for Vampire Origin Myths. The more varied the better.

Try the ancient egyptian vampyr myths and the ancient sumerian vampyr myths that can be found on many websites.

Personally i believe that the energy of the first vampyric entity was around for much longer than the corporeal form.

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I know there are in romania, transilvania, and of course australia and africa, so far tho did not find any in the american continent. most are in the europe or closest, where you dont really go across ocean, exept for australia, I am really suprise we have no myth originating from american continent

Also do not forget in chinia, Italy vampires lore goes through alot of eastern europe.

people say egypt and romania. i think it might be egypt, but way before the time of ancient egypt.

you might try : the byzantines, the minoans, the macedonians or persians.

Okay... to clear things up I'm not asking about where these legends and myths came from, rather how the vampire came to be... where the first or first generation came to be

most come from the stories of Dracula in the Romania, Transylvania origins

but there have been some other stories such as vampires and carpathians alike that live in the Carpathian Mountains

I've heard the Cursed by God, and the Blessed by Demon myths of Dracula and Akasha respectively... and was looking for something new

maybe this isn't what you were looking for
Etymology: The word 'vampire' derives from the Slavic word 'vampir' or 'vampyr', first appearing in the 1600s in the Eastern European region in the Balkans. 'vampir' is derived from 'upir', which first appeared in print in an Old Russian manuscript from 1047 AC in which a Novgorodian prince is referred to as 'Upir Lichyj' (Wicked Vampire). But the origin of 'upir' is even more controversial. Franz Miklosich suggested that 'upir' is derived from 'uber', a Turkish word for 'witch' whereas Andre Vaillant suggests just the opposite. Kazimierz Moszynski suggests that 'u-pir' is from a Serbo-Croatian word 'pirati' (to blow). Aleksandr Afanasev points to the Slavic 'pij' (to drink), which may have entered the Slavic language from the Greek, via Old Church Slavonic. A. Bruckner proposes Russian 'netopyr' (bat).

some myths might have come from when someone died long ago and then the bodies were exumed and found that they were still growing with long fingernails,teeth etc and back then most people not being intellectually smart like how we are today simply made myths and legends to what we here of today.

Also the myths could have originated because alot of souls were buried and truly not dead, and they awoke and ventured home they were met with being a vampire or other creature and killled.

My uncle works in a morgue and he told me that sometimes when they go to embalm the body the person will sit up and look around and fall back down. Or their body will twitch or moan.Possabley this might of sparked legends as well?

The Encyclopedia of the undead by -J . Godon Melton ---
The specific concept of the dead returning in order to attack and feed off the blood off the living ---- Was in Christian Europe in the twelfth century . pg xiii ......
I honestly believe it was in the Garden of Eden.....