The oldest mention of lady vampires can be traced back to the stories that originated in the Far East. In countries such as China, India, and Tibet, people talked about female vampires, but each of the three versions were different from each other. No one actually knows how the concept of a vampiress came into being, or how the image of blood-sucking women was conjured up by the masses. Over the years, these stories travelled along the famous Silk Route and reached Eastern Europe, where they gained firm ground. The people of Eastern Europe not only completely believed these stories about girl vampires and their powers and their ability to suck a human being’s blood, but they soon started their own stories. Most of these stories were rooted in local myths and mysteries, but no one can vouch for their veracity. These are the stories that we hear even today.

In what the West refers to as The Far East, countries such as China, India, and Tibet had their own version of a female vampire. While not much is known about the Chinese and the Tibetan version, in India, the concept of female vampires mainly revolved around Indian mythology and around Goddess Kali in particular. Goddess Kali is a much revered deity in Hinduism. She is the slayer of demons. In Indian mythology, Goddess Kali is portrayed as having fangs, four arms, and a garland of skulls around her neck. According to Hindu scriptures, Goddess Kali along with Goddess Durga killed a demon called Raktabija. Raktabija possessed magical powers that allowed him to resurrect himself from the dead from his own split blood. In order to end the terror reign of Raktabija, it is said that Goddess Kali drank all of his blood so that he could not resurrect himself.

The portrayal of women vampires in Eastern Europe is not intermeshed with religion, as in India. Most of the stories about female vampires have originated from local myths and beliefs. A majority of these stories about girl vampires were circulated by the gypsies who travelled from one place to another. According to one of these stories, vampires originated from Mullo. It is said that when Mullo died, he returned back from his grave to suck the blood of all his relatives who had either caused his death or disrespected his funeral rites. The stories told by the gypsies also often mentioned female vampires. These female vampires had the power to rise from the dead and go back to leading their normal lives as if nothing had happened. The vampire, and especially the female vampire has a held the imagination of readers and movie goers for quite some time.

The mere mention of the word Vampire brings up an image of a pale white man with sharp teeth drinking blood. Or it may also remind you of a beautiful woman who in an instant would turn into a blood-sucking ghost. As far as history of vampires is concerned there is no exact date known to anyone; however a few people are of the opinion that it started with a novel published in 1897 by Bram Stocker. No matter who started and when, but we all are so intrigued by their existence that we often believe that they exist.

But there are many sources that also claim that vampires were mentioned in various forms, such as pottery, scriptures in ancient Babylon era. For example, demon Lilitu was mentioned in the history as early as 4000 BC in Babylon pottery. She was portrayed as a woman who loved to suck blood of young men with sexual intentions. Many men said to have seen vampires in their erotic dreams and thoughts. Most of these vampires intended to seduce young men by coming into their dreams and henceforth made them their preys or victims. These vampires were known to be very beautiful by looks and seductive by nature so that they could have found their victims too easily.

Let’s see some brief introduction about the history of Halloween. Halloween, as we all know is a holiday celebrated on October 31 every year. As far as roots of Halloween are concerned they can be found in Celtic festival of Samhain and Christianity. But in the modern world almost every country in Western world celebrates this day. Needless to say this day is very special day to children and youngsters who dress up like ghosts and wear other unusual things to portray themselves like ghost and skeletons. They usually go from door to door and their near and dear ones to show their tricks and in return they get candies, chocolates and sometimes a few coins for their efforts.

Pumpkin lanterns and other ghostly images are being used on this day to make people laugh and sometimes frightened. Apart from just frightening and entertaining people, Halloween has very rich and vast history along with a special message on this last day of summers. Centuries ago, people especially Celtic people from Western Europe strongly believed that on the last day of summer all living beings join together including human beings and kingdom of dead.