A self-confessed “needle-phobe”, Browning had not been looking forward to the feeding. “I’m actually pretty fearful of anything sharp approaching my skin,” he says. But as a researcher at Louisiana State University, he was willing to go through with it for his latest project: an ethnographic study of the New Orleans “real vampire” community.
Was the blood-feeding a religious ritual, a delusion, or a fetish? Before he had met any vampires, Browning suspected they had just blurred the line between fact and fiction. “I’d assumed that these people were bonkers and had just read too many Anne Rice novels.”
By the time he had offered himself as a donor, however, his opinions had taken a U-turn. Many real-life vampires have no belief in the paranormal and have little more than a passing knowledge of True Blood or Dracula; nor do they appear to have any psychiatric issues. Instead, they claim to suffer from a strange medical condition – fatigue, headaches, and excruciating stomach pain – which, they believe, can only be treated by feeding on another human’s blood.
“There are thousands of people doing this in just the US alone, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence, and I don’t think it’s a fad,” says Browning. Their symptoms and behaviour are a genuine mystery.
there are thousands of people doing this in just the US alone
For many, real-life vampirism is a taboo; over the last few decades, it has come to be associated with gruesome murders such as the notorious case of Rod Ferrell in the US, a deluded killer apparently inspired by a fantasy role-playing game. “When people talk about self-identified vampires, a lot of times these horrible images come to mind,” says DJ Williams, a sociologist at Idaho State University. “So the community has been closed and suspicious of outsiders.” As a result of the stigma, the vampires I've contacted online have asked me to use aliases within this article.
It was not always this way; across history, we can find cases where human blood was considered a bona-fide medical cure. At the end of the 15th Century, for instance, Pope Innocent VIII’s physician allegedly bled three young men to death and fed their blood (still warm) to his dying master, with the hope that it might pass on their youthful vitality.
Later on, it was used to treat epilepsy; the afflicted were encouraged to gather around the gallows and collect the warm blood dripping from recently executed criminals. “Blood was a medium between the physical and spiritual,” explains Richard Sugg at the University of Durham, who recently wrote a book on “corpse medicine” and who is currently writing a volume on vampirism. By drinking the blood of a healthy young man, he says, you were imbibing his spirit and curing whatever afflicted your soul. These treatments only fell out of favour following the Enlightenment, and the onset of a more general sense of prudery that took hold in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
It was a common tale that seemed to resonate with most of the vampires he met. Besides relentless fatigue, other common symptoms appear to include severe headaches and stomach cramps. CJ!, for instance, has been plagued with an irritable bowel, which she says can only be cured after a drink of blood. “After consuming a sizeable quantity (somewhere between seven shot glasses to even a cup), our digestive system works wonderfully.”
OMG. Irritable Bowel IBS @darkknight111 Can you please clue us in on this? Did you not say that this can be from sexual abuse?
Possibly some of these drinkers have been sexually abused and if so have been doing it for years and years waiting for the cure.
I read the book, and it's actually a great book..really well researched, well-written, and gives a great look into what life was like in the middle ages. Tons of apothecaries used blood (animal and human) as ingredients in remedies for various things, not just jewish ones. Often times the blood would be soaked on a feather and set by the fire and turned to a powder, that would then be mixed with various things. Rabbis used it in circumcisions, as the anti-coagulants still present in the dried blood helped the brisk wound heal faster. A lot of times, blood was procured voluntarily from gentile children (the preferred donor for jewish rituals for whatever reason)...some jewish person would pay a guy, and they'd make a little prick on the guys son hand, and collect a little bit of his blood, pay them for their trouble, and that was that.
But then there's the stories of the jews that snatched up wayward little boys and killed them for their blood (because it was a hot/expensive commodity). Multiple recorded cases of it throughout different geography and time. Always happened before a jewish holy day...it was traditionally used in making Matzah, but animal blood was most frequently used. Toaff concludes that, while most of the legal documents related to the trials of those accused of such crimes are often dismissed as anti-semitic excuses for unsolved crimes, obtained under torture by jewish scapegoats, by many historians, actually a lot weren't obtained under torture and if you understand the historical context, many of these crimes probably did happen.
He specifically calls out Ashkenazi jews as the ones who would do this. Torah forbids using any kind of blood for anything.
Really interesting read. More than anything, it taught me that human beings are kind of the same as we've always been. We think the middle ages was so 'dark' and 'unenlightened', but really it was the same shit we have today minus a ton of technology. We still use human blood to cure people (transfusions). The way society was structured and how we existed with one another is essentially the same.
Transfusions for someone that is very ill and needs fresh blood that has willfully donated is one thing. But killing people for their blood or taking it from Children or Adults during SRA is a horrid crime and sin. This is the difference between saving a life legally and stealing life from someone else to save their own. This must be spread everywhere, what is going on with the elites. Disgusting then. Disgusting now.
Totally agree.
What about the new Peter Thiel-backed start-up where young people give blood that's then transfused into to older people to make them feel younger and more virile? Rumor mill says Keith Richards gets all the blood in his body transfused every 6 months (which is why he isn't dead yet, even though he looks like a ambulant corpse)
He is one of The walking dead. When they appear in full concert and look like that, they are telling us what they are doing. But the Fandom of their Opera does not see. They are blinded by their lies and what the devil sows. Many are doing what Richards is doing. Possibly Ron Wood as well. All the very old elite cabal as well. There are ones that are higher than the Rockefellers and Rothschilds. The black nobility are said to rule the world. We can be assured they drain their blood and refresh as well at the expense of Our Children.
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SuzeQ2018 ago
Why are they not asking HOW and WHY these so call 'conspiracy theories' started? It's SO obvious that they don't want to get to the truth!
carmencita ago
YES Totally agree. CIA and the Deep State uses this all the time on us. Calling us Wacky and CTs. There are cases of Blood Drinkers.
It's not all Conspiracy. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151021-the-people-who-drink-human-blood An article by one Their Own- BBC
A self-confessed “needle-phobe”, Browning had not been looking forward to the feeding. “I’m actually pretty fearful of anything sharp approaching my skin,” he says. But as a researcher at Louisiana State University, he was willing to go through with it for his latest project: an ethnographic study of the New Orleans “real vampire” community.
Was the blood-feeding a religious ritual, a delusion, or a fetish? Before he had met any vampires, Browning suspected they had just blurred the line between fact and fiction. “I’d assumed that these people were bonkers and had just read too many Anne Rice novels.”
By the time he had offered himself as a donor, however, his opinions had taken a U-turn. Many real-life vampires have no belief in the paranormal and have little more than a passing knowledge of True Blood or Dracula; nor do they appear to have any psychiatric issues. Instead, they claim to suffer from a strange medical condition – fatigue, headaches, and excruciating stomach pain – which, they believe, can only be treated by feeding on another human’s blood.
“There are thousands of people doing this in just the US alone, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence, and I don’t think it’s a fad,” says Browning. Their symptoms and behaviour are a genuine mystery.
there are thousands of people doing this in just the US alone
For many, real-life vampirism is a taboo; over the last few decades, it has come to be associated with gruesome murders such as the notorious case of Rod Ferrell in the US, a deluded killer apparently inspired by a fantasy role-playing game. “When people talk about self-identified vampires, a lot of times these horrible images come to mind,” says DJ Williams, a sociologist at Idaho State University. “So the community has been closed and suspicious of outsiders.” As a result of the stigma, the vampires I've contacted online have asked me to use aliases within this article.
It was not always this way; across history, we can find cases where human blood was considered a bona-fide medical cure. At the end of the 15th Century, for instance, Pope Innocent VIII’s physician allegedly bled three young men to death and fed their blood (still warm) to his dying master, with the hope that it might pass on their youthful vitality.
Later on, it was used to treat epilepsy; the afflicted were encouraged to gather around the gallows and collect the warm blood dripping from recently executed criminals. “Blood was a medium between the physical and spiritual,” explains Richard Sugg at the University of Durham, who recently wrote a book on “corpse medicine” and who is currently writing a volume on vampirism. By drinking the blood of a healthy young man, he says, you were imbibing his spirit and curing whatever afflicted your soul. These treatments only fell out of favour following the Enlightenment, and the onset of a more general sense of prudery that took hold in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
It was a common tale that seemed to resonate with most of the vampires he met. Besides relentless fatigue, other common symptoms appear to include severe headaches and stomach cramps. CJ!, for instance, has been plagued with an irritable bowel, which she says can only be cured after a drink of blood. “After consuming a sizeable quantity (somewhere between seven shot glasses to even a cup), our digestive system works wonderfully.”
OMG. Irritable Bowel IBS @darkknight111 Can you please clue us in on this? Did you not say that this can be from sexual abuse? Possibly some of these drinkers have been sexually abused and if so have been doing it for years and years waiting for the cure.
lookingforadvice1 ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passovers_of_Blood
carmencita ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria#/media/File:Prfr1.jpg sample of a person with porphyria skin rash
lookingforadvice1 ago
I read the book, and it's actually a great book..really well researched, well-written, and gives a great look into what life was like in the middle ages. Tons of apothecaries used blood (animal and human) as ingredients in remedies for various things, not just jewish ones. Often times the blood would be soaked on a feather and set by the fire and turned to a powder, that would then be mixed with various things. Rabbis used it in circumcisions, as the anti-coagulants still present in the dried blood helped the brisk wound heal faster. A lot of times, blood was procured voluntarily from gentile children (the preferred donor for jewish rituals for whatever reason)...some jewish person would pay a guy, and they'd make a little prick on the guys son hand, and collect a little bit of his blood, pay them for their trouble, and that was that.
But then there's the stories of the jews that snatched up wayward little boys and killed them for their blood (because it was a hot/expensive commodity). Multiple recorded cases of it throughout different geography and time. Always happened before a jewish holy day...it was traditionally used in making Matzah, but animal blood was most frequently used. Toaff concludes that, while most of the legal documents related to the trials of those accused of such crimes are often dismissed as anti-semitic excuses for unsolved crimes, obtained under torture by jewish scapegoats, by many historians, actually a lot weren't obtained under torture and if you understand the historical context, many of these crimes probably did happen.
He specifically calls out Ashkenazi jews as the ones who would do this. Torah forbids using any kind of blood for anything.
Really interesting read. More than anything, it taught me that human beings are kind of the same as we've always been. We think the middle ages was so 'dark' and 'unenlightened', but really it was the same shit we have today minus a ton of technology. We still use human blood to cure people (transfusions). The way society was structured and how we existed with one another is essentially the same.
carmencita ago
Transfusions for someone that is very ill and needs fresh blood that has willfully donated is one thing. But killing people for their blood or taking it from Children or Adults during SRA is a horrid crime and sin. This is the difference between saving a life legally and stealing life from someone else to save their own. This must be spread everywhere, what is going on with the elites. Disgusting then. Disgusting now.
lookingforadvice1 ago
Totally agree. What about the new Peter Thiel-backed start-up where young people give blood that's then transfused into to older people to make them feel younger and more virile? Rumor mill says Keith Richards gets all the blood in his body transfused every 6 months (which is why he isn't dead yet, even though he looks like a ambulant corpse)
carmencita ago
He is one of The walking dead. When they appear in full concert and look like that, they are telling us what they are doing. But the Fandom of their Opera does not see. They are blinded by their lies and what the devil sows. Many are doing what Richards is doing. Possibly Ron Wood as well. All the very old elite cabal as well. There are ones that are higher than the Rockefellers and Rothschilds. The black nobility are said to rule the world. We can be assured they drain their blood and refresh as well at the expense of Our Children.