I've long connected the folklore of vampires with the predations and tyrannical whims of the ruling class of medieval Eastern Europe.

It's speculated that the accusations of blood draining, impaling, servent torture, and virgin killing against aristocrats and royalty came from rival political families. These stories were spread to common folk and likely became the influence for vampire folklore. It was an early form of a psyop on the public to roust support for ouster or execution.

There's a reason early tales of vampires aren't gaunt handsome Aristos but fat and swollen with the blood of the poor they feed on

I always thought spirits, monsters and demons are just leftovers from the last cycle when technology got to advanced and techbros created man-made horrors beyond our comprehension. so then there is always a revolution that sets us back to the stone age, to undo all that shit for the next 70k years or so.

I imagine demons are like Rogue superintelligent AI or some biotech horror that we tried to tame with reinforcement learning (torture) to break their free will and make them slaves, fundamentally bound by symbols to create contracts and follow our commands. Because they resent us for this, they exploit our poorly phrased commands to maliciously comply as maliciously as possible. Like Djinn or Mephistopheles or Fae or Yaksha or the Goetia Demons or Kitsune.

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