Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35958194-20180625143926/@comment-9041013-20180626100452

Srdjan Delic wrote: You turned a story about a werewolf into a WW1 story. Great Job. I will try. Jure Grando is interesting. I don't know why vampires are from Balkan. Also, the first ever appearance of a vampire is in the 14th century in Serbia. We don't know the name of him. In 14th we got new laws. One of the law was about vampires. People didn't believe in vampires, so it was illegal to drove a stake through a vampire. So we know that legends of vampires existed in the 14th century. But Jure Grando is probably the oldest vampire we know. People here sometimes claim that they saw a vampire. Mostly in the forests. One guy thinks he saw a "vampire" eating a deer in the woods and he started running from that creature. Creature almost got him, but he left the woods, and that thing just looked at him, and it didn't want to leave the forest. I think that all those stories are just stories to scare people and. Some of them are real like Arnold Paole, but they have a scientific explanation. Arnold can`t be fake because those Austrian doctors documented everything. They wouldn't fake the death of 20 people just for a story. We found corpses with stakes in their chests in Bulgaria from 800 years ago. So, Bulgarian Vampires.

Why the Balkans? don't know... it's mostly Eastern Europe in general, like Russian werewolves were sometimes also vampires and sometimes they were a more "traditional" werewolf. Have you heard of the Neuri? the clan that supposedly turned to wolves during a certain month