Vampires: Folklore, fantasy and fact - Michael Molina

The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia to 18th-century Eastern Europe, but it has differed in the terrifying details. So, how did we arrive at the popular image we know, love and fear today? And what truly makes a vampire...a vampire? Michael Molina digs up the science and the superstition.

Lesson by Michael Molina, animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio.

[lehuy]

Who’s having a TED-Ed videos marathon ? These animations are incredibles

[TEDEd]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Nadav, Moran, Michael and Alex worked really hard to bring this lesson to life. Happy Halloween!

[mewmew]

A history of vampires explained by a vampire

[jaysimon]

Simply one of the best video they have ever made!

[TheDarkKRoo]

This guy does an awesome Dracula. I could just listen to him tell a spooky story and it would totally set the mood.

[amrithai.]

That shade at Edward Cullen xD "Even sparkly vampires..."

[thequeenoffilth]

There is no way this video wasn't created as misinformation by a vampire

[deedragongirl]

Thanks for mentioning Malaysia and our own version of Vampires!

[lynland]

pretty sure anyone would die if you staked them in the heart 😐... at least I would

[alincristiansimion]

Can you make a same video like this, but with mermaids, please?

[rabbit]

i like how ted-ed's captions have so many language options. captions are often an unforgotten, but important, aspect to videos

[romypotash]

I really glad I saw this video when I just entered my vampire obsession stage like a decade ago. I could have been one if the inseparable "it's not a real vampire" but it's a blanket turn to a reach cultural faumenal

[rmoon]

The yara-ma-yha-who is probably real, totally sounds like something you would come across in Australia

[strangerthings]

"Even sparkling vampires can be included."😂

[themarveluniverseonline]

Imagine a creature that is, by design, the perfect predator of human beings. Intelligent, cunning, and able to use a human appearance as a form of camouflage to move about undetected. Now imagine that creature is strong as a lion and has to consume it's body weight in blood every night. I think movies and television haven't made vampire anywhere near as frightening as they could be.

[willthomas]

Just what I always wanted like Christmas!

[lenee]

Currently reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the lore in the book is fascinating. There’s even some vampire lore in that book that we don’t remember, such as a wild rose stalk preventing the vampire from leaving its coffin, they can only transform at noon dawn or dusk, can ride moon beams, and they can actually transform into any for they wish (bat is obvious, but also wolf, and mist)

[MC_lupin]

That moment when you’re borned with sun allergy AND from Transylvania...

[rikishikato]

"Even sparkling vampires can be included..."

I lost myself here

[hazellevesque]

“Even sparkling vampires can be included.”
Me: I understood that reference.