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Vampires Before Dracula
Season 1 Episode 71
- What is generally agreed to be the oldest known story of a vampire?
- What happened to Sekhmet when her beer (which she thought was blood) was dyed red?
- Who is Lilith, and what does she have to do with feisty ladies?
- When does the manananggal drink the blood of pregnant women?
- How did George keep his pants from falling when he was interpreting for a Shakespearean play? And was the audience REALLY laughing at the comedy or at his pants falling? Or both? Or was it just his imagination?
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:51 S/M aspects of previous story
- 02:00 Explanation of Stoker/vampire background
- 03:33 Oldest known story of vampire
- 04:27 Lilith the feisty lady
- 05:51 The blood sucker who could separate its body
- 07:50 Chinese story (“The Blood Sucking Corpse”)
- 16:06 Translation notes
- 19:20 Creeping pants
- 23:42 Sources
- 24:27 Future episodes
- 25:02 Outro
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