Talk:Welcome

I have always found it extremely interesting how vampires have changed over the years. I have watched quite a few vampire movies and shows, and vampires have never been quite the same. For example, the items that they are "allergic" to always seems to change, for example in the television show "Angel", the Vampires were allergic to garlic, crucifixes, and sunlight, whereas in the movies "Blade", most of these were a myth and were replaced by silver. Silver, as I had thought, was the allergen of the Werewolf. If we were to go back to ancient literature, it was noted that a branch of wild rose or hawthorn would harm a vampire, whereas in Europe the sprinkling of mustard seeds on one's roof was said to keep them away. Also changed quite modernly was the method of metamorphosis from the seemingly human to the vampire form. More ancient literature suggested that they were always either in the form of a bat, or in the form of a monstrous humanoid. More modern sources, or rather artists, depicted that the fangs of a vampire were always visible, along with an otherwise ordinary human form. Then along came the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its child "Angel", which suggested that the vampire form could be conjured by will, and included fangs and a distorted face, full of wrinkles and probably a deeper voice. Though quite recently in history, we find the vampire has incredible speed, strength, and a host of other qualities including but not limited to, hearing the thoughts of another.