Most stories in the world about vampires are pretend. But what about the true stories of vampirism?
~Elizabeth Bathory~
One of the first people to be considered a vampire. She was a countess. Some books have been published with little hints of her gruesome acts in them, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. This cruel and bitter countess was convicted of murdering over 600 young maidens. Legend has it that one day when the blood of one of her many maids hit her skin, she noticed something. It seemed to make her skin look much younger. Being as vain as she was she ordered some of her servants to drain the girl of her blood and fill a tub up so she could bathe in it. Later she was said to have begun drinking the blood. Her husband, the count, was not that nice either. He would torture maidens as well and humiliate them in front of all of the gentlemen in the crowd. They were said to get a kick out of it, but that could have been the fear welling up inside of them. Then her husband turned her in. It was said that around 200 villagers testified against her, mostly relatives of the murder victims, protesting, saying that she was a monster and killing young maidens whenever she had a quench for blood. Being a lady and a countess, she was never allowed into court and had people and servants testify on her account. Of course this makes me wonder a little bit. 200 people testified against her. How did they get the courage to do this? Obviously they were not paid to do this because just of the pure number of people. And what could they get out of testifying? I don't think we'll ever know. She lost the case and all of her servants, maids, and whatnot were killed brutally then and there, but what happened to the countess? She was then sent to live up in a tower of her castle until the day she died. Surprisingly, that day came just three years later.
~Mina Harker~
Mina Harker, wife and fiancée of Jonathan Harker. In the novel, "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, her and Dracula fall in love. She wishes he would turn her into a vampire. Which in the end he does. When her husband Jonathan kills Dracula she asks him if he will do the same to her. He says no, wow, He must really love her. She was said to have the brain of a man. She was also considered the soul of the group.
~Louis de Pointe du Lac~
Another novel character, in a series of Ann Rice books called, "The Vampire Chronicles." He is the main character in the first book, "Interview with the Vampire." He was, "made," by Lestat de Lioncourt. In the novel he was said to have had a huge argument with his brother over religion and being as angry as his brother was, he made the mistake of being careless and tripped down the stairs. Louis felt awful and blamed everything on himself. He began to welcome death in every form, but it came to him in the form of a vampire. He was around 26 at the time, and owned his own plantation. He then befriended a woman named Babette, who found out his dark secret. He began to hate Lestat for what he had done and in fear Louis would leave him, he turned a little 6 year old girl named Claudia, who which Louis befriended as well, into a vampire as well. He fell in love with this little girl. They showered her with dolls, and dresses. She took after Louis in her love for music and poetry, as well as books. But she also shared Lestats dark love for hunting people down. She began to despise Lestat. You see her body stayed the same, but her soul and mind grew to be that of a true woman. She understood much more, and she poisoned Lestat and left him for dead. The Louis and her set off into the Mediterranean, and lived there for a while, until they hit Paris. After a group of vampires discovered what they had done they put Claudia out into the sunlight and destroyed her. Louis was set free by Armand, another vampire. He went home and met Lestat and the story ends there. "There is nothing more to tell," he explains.
~Dracula~
Quite possibly the most famous vampire of all time. He was a count in Transylvania, and known as Vlad the Impairer. He was a gruesome count and would Impale people and show their bodies outside of his castle to ward of people coming near. He was also said to have caught the blood of his victims on bread and eat it up. Countless books have been writing recalling information about him. Many authors write about him fictionally, but some write almost biographies about him.