If Muggles learned that vampires could not share the power of immortality with them, would they still keep supporting the "blood clan"?
The vampires of Transylvania had already begun renting out their castles. Being immortal yet having no money to spend was miserable too, but vampire enthusiasts would never believe it.
They did not believe vampires truly existed at all. They merely thought Gothic style was cool, even though the Vatican had acknowledged the existence of vampires.
In the eighteenth century, debates over the vampire phenomenon were fiercely contested. Some defenders of rationalism, such as the French philosopher Rousseau, had declared, "If there is any history in the world supported by complete documentary records, then it is the history of vampires. Its sources are abundant: evidence from oral legends, testimony from trustworthy people, and the accounts of surgeons, priests, and judges. In short, who could still deny the existence of vampires?"
Given such claims, those who believed the vampire phenomenon was pure superstition could offer no clearer evidence in explanation—who could find physical proof that something nonexistent did not exist?
Likewise, things with no physical evidence proving they existed, such as Unicorns and Gou Nan, yet insisting they did exist, were utterly absurd.
The material collected by human philosophers on the vampire phenomenon changed over time and according to geography. For instance, in many Eastern European myths, when a vampire infected a victim or caused their death, it did not need to bite them. A simple touch or glance was enough.
At first, Pomona believed that the earliest vampire had come from a tyrant in Ireland, who had created vampires using dark magic.
Yet corpses in Ireland had stones stuffed into their mouths, just like the "vampire" on San Zaccareto Island in Venice.
In the eighteenth century, several "outbreaks" of