How Did Vampires Change

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Book I chose for this assignment is called real-life vampires.Its a interesting story about how did vampires change through time and how differently were they respresented in different cultures.Story begins with saying that old vampires were totally different than the ones we know today. They were more ugly, scary, dangerous and real. In present vampires are handsome, more powerful and unreal. Theories how vampires started existing starts in one small village in France. One huge family lost one of his members because of some sickness but after his death strange things started to happen. Family members started to die one by one by strange deaths and they found the bodies in awful state. They were full of scratches and wounds. They thought that

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