Armenian Vampire

[HyeJinx1984]

as some of you know, I'm a HUGE Vampire-head and I've always been facinated how different cultures have different versions of the myth. Every culture has one and Armenian are no different... however, our Vampire is very very very stupid Check this:

"Dakhanavar protected a valley near Mount Ararat by sucking blood from the feet of travellers. When two men slept with their feet under each other's heads Dakhanavar mistook them for a monster with two heads and no feet and was never heard of again."

Feet??? Come on man... I was hoping for something cooler than that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A273566

Please tell me you guys can find something other than this Dakhanavar lamo!

[!EEK]

Our vampires are maybe stupid, but we still got werewolves:

"There are women, so the Armenian belief runs, who in consequence of deadly sins are condemned to pass seven years in the form of a wolf. A spirit comes to such a woman and brings her a wolf's skin. He orders her to put it on, and no sooner has she done this than the most frightful wolfish cravings make their appearance and soon get the upper hand. Her better nature conquered, she makes a meal of her own children, one by one, then of her relatives' children according to the degree of relationship, and finally the children of strangers begin to fall a prey to her. She wanders forth only at night, and doors and locks spring open at her approach. When morning draws near she returns to human form and removes her wolf skin. In these cases the transformation was involuntary or virtually so. But side by side with this belief in involuntary metamorphosis, we find the belief that human beings can change themselves into animals at will and then resume their own form."
(http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/w/werewolf.html)



See? We have cool, wild woman-wolves..nasty

[HyeJinx1984]

Sounds like my Aunt....

[!EEK]