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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 263: The First Vampire
Description: It is Halloween again, and what is more iconic at this time of year than vampires, werewolves, and witches? I thought it was about time we dedicate a whole episode to them, so Noah Charney is back on the show to discuss their origins. It turns out that these creatures first appear in Slavic myths around the 4th century and the werewolf & the vampire are actually the same creature! It wasn’t until very modern stories started to separate them into two different monsters. Still we see the origins that eventually become legendary parts of the story: A wirey, tall, g...