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Post by jane on Jan 23, 2014 11:55:10 GMT -5
I've never read any of these juvenile vampire books, nor do I intend to, but I'd like to know more about how these authors explain women getting pregnant by vampires. In the answer that Maddy posted, there's a reference to the incubus, but the incubus was a spirit and a vampire is a resurrected corpse. Not the same thing at all.
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Post by Kate on Jan 23, 2014 17:56:31 GMT -5
I'm beginning to think that a lot of those who write and make movies and TV shows about vampires don't know what vampires really are. Basically, if they aren't dead, then they aren't vampires.
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Post by pat on Feb 3, 2014 3:53:37 GMT -5
I read somewhere that girls who got pregnant out of wedlock back in medieval days would claim that they were attacked by an incubus to explain their pregnancy. I'm not sure that teenagers today know what a vampire really is because they get their information from these books and TV shows, so they probably don't find it strange when a girl gets pregnant by her vampire boyfriend.
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Post by JoannaL on Jun 29, 2023 13:43:52 GMT -5
I'm beginning to think that a lot of those who write and make movies and TV shows about vampires don't know what vampires really are. Basically, if they aren't dead, then they aren't vampires. I came across this while searching for historical accounts of suspected vampires and recalled this discussion. Below, Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga series, talks about how male vampires can impregnate women:
STEPHANIE MEYER: In brief, female vampires cannot become pregnant. Male vampires are capable of sustaining an erection and impregnating human females due to the presence of “venom” suffusing their cells.
Vampires and pregnancy: when did that idea occur to you? How does that work?
STEPHANIE MEYER: I was always very careful when I answered the “Can vampires have babies?” question, because I didn’t want to say anything incorrect, but I also didn’t want to make the future super-obvious. I focused my answers on the female half of the equation – female vampires cannot have children because their bodies no longer change in any aspect. There is no changing cycle to begin with, and their bodies couldn’t expand to fit a growing child, either. I purposely evaded answering the question, “Can a male vampire get a human female pregnant?” to preserve a tiny bit of surprise in the last book. There were many statements on this subject purported to have come from me, but I never made those comments because, obviously, I knew where this was going.
Vampires are physically similar enough to their human origins to pass as humans under some circumstances (like cloudy days) ... A fluid similar to the venom in their mouths works as a lubricant between the cells, which makes movement possible (note: this fluid is very flammable). ... The normal reactions of arousal are still present in vampires, made possible by venom-related fluids that cause tissues to react similarly as they do to an influx of blood. Like with vampire skin – which looks similar to human skin and has the same basic function – fluids closely related to seminal fluids still exist in male vampires, which carry genetic information and are capable of bonding with a human ovum.Source: Stack Exchange.
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Post by snowfairy on Jun 29, 2023 15:53:21 GMT -5
So this is just something she made up rather than anything from vampire lore.
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