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The word Vampire appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1734 as much was appearing in German literature on the subject. After the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz where parts of Serbia and Wallachia came under Austrian control, the Austrian officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and "killing vampires". These reports prepared between 1725 and 1732 received widespread publicity.[1] The etymology is uncertain, though several theories of its origin exist.[2] The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn thought to be derived in the early 18th century[3] from Serbian вампир/vampir,[4][5][6][7] or Hungarian vámpÃr.[8][9] The Serbian and Hungarian forms have parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak upÃr, Polish wÄ…pierz and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Russian упырь (upyr'), Belarusian упыр (upyr), Ukrainian упирь (upir'), from Old Russian упирь (upir'). (Note that many of these languages have ... borrowed forms such as "vampir/wampir" secondarily from the West). Among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *
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Interestingly enough, the female vampire made her next appearance in a series of films produced in Malaysia, beginning in 1956. Maria Menado starred as a woman made beautiful by magic. She married and was soon confronted with potential disaster when her husband was bitten by a snake. She sucked the posion out of her husband, but in the process, was transformed into a vampire. She, in turn, attempted to vampirize her daughter, but was killed before she could accomplish her goal. Menado's Pontianak was followed by Dendam Pontianak (1957), in which Menado returned from the grave to seek vengence upon her killers.
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Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles ended after many years, and many others have started up in the meantime. There are many supernatural romances with handsome vampires as the male leads, such as Lynsay Sands' Agregneu family series (2003-) and erotic novels as well.
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Much of the interest in vampires has ... been carried by fan clubs that have grown out of television series. "Dark Shadows" fandom, from the 1960s, had retained its vitality for over 30 years and still attracts 400-600 members to its annual meeting. Another set of fan clubs sprung up from "Forever Knight," the series featuring a vampire policeman from Toronto. As the century ended, vampire fandom received an unexpected boost from the successful series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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The occult detective sub-genre is represented by Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden fantasy series (2000-), Charlaine Harris's "Southern Vampire Mysteries" (2001-) and Stephen R. Sobotka Jr.'s series (2007-), Sin-City Walker. Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's postapocalyptic vampire series (1983-), Vampire Hunter D has begun to be translated into English (2005-).
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Accounts of vampires can be found in cultures across the world and across the centuries. The word vampire (vampir, vampyre) has its origins in Slavonic, but with similarities in Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Bulgarian. In addition, words for vampire are ... found in the early Greek, Danish, Swedish and Hungarian languages.
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