"Real life" vampires are people with personality disorders who have convinced themselves that they need to ingest blood and/or psychic vampires who similarly feel compelled to drain energy from others so as to stabilize their own in favor of seeking a more permanent situation with their own energy.
The modern myth of the vampire generally stems from various serial killers of the mid-ages, and the widespread epidemics of tuberculosis (also known as consumption) which would often leave freshly buried corpses appearing to have blood on their lips and mouths, while the rest of the flesh would shrink away making it appear as fangs, hair, and nails had grown.
Werewolves are generally attributed to individuals infected with rabies.
Please don't do like this crazy girl i seen on Yahoo Answers that thought she was a vampire when she started cutting her wrist and drinking it then wondering if she turned her boyfriend in to one by putting her blood in his food because for one drinking you blood would be useless and would gag you (This is a heads up no matter what anyone says here or anywhere else there are no vampires in any sense they are all lying)
Don't worry I don't. But some of these closedminded jerks do. (stop critising and I'll stop the name calling) I know you just wanted to know some traits and if they were like twilight. no harm in that.
It's funny how the first fictional vampire Nosferatu got twisted to look like twilight. Big scary monster to emo disco balls. I did enjoy the stories (the movies just made it sexual) it had good depth to them. People miss between the lines. The main idea of this story. This story to me shows the struggle of unique love that most people see as evil or gross. It shows that even "monsters" love and
what looks like to be evil from stories and so forth really are not. In order to truly understand a story we must look at the detail and the whole picture.
A good point. This can be taken further to view the broader spectrum of writing, such as what we are taught from magical works.
The supernatural creatures within the Twilight movie are the metaphor intended to drive the story of forbidden love.
Similarly, you encounter many fantastic things within works of magical value. These, again, are metaphors used to describe and drive a point home, particularly when many concepts within the spiritual/magical traditions are really only able to be described through elaborate metaphor.
