Vampires – They’re Rooted in Love, not Evil Eileen Sheehan
Although the very famous Brahm Stoker novel, Dracula, made the world look at the vampire as an evil monster, the vampire got its start from a Greek mythological love story long before Dracula came into the picture. The story tells of a young Italian, named Ambrogio, and a beautiful woman, named Selena who fell in love.
of the hunt, Artemiss, silver bow. As a result, Artemis cursed Ambrogio so that silver would burn his skin. Compassion eventually oozed in and she later gave him super strength, immortality, and fangs to kill beasts so that he could write love poems to Selena with the blood. When Selena finally managed to escape Apollos grasp and unite with Ambrogio, Artemis told him that he could make Selena immortal like he was by drinking her blood. It would kill her body her spirit would live on. After that, their combined blood could then turn anyone who drank it into a vampire.
It was love at first sight while conferring with the Oracle in the temple of Apollo when Ambrogio first set his eyes on Selena. Sadly, when he asked her to marry him, he quickly learned that the sun god, Apollo, also had designs on her. Furious over the young mortals love for each other, Apollo cursed Ambrogio by causing his skin to burn whenever it was Thus was the romantic tale of the exposed to sunlight. immortal, blood sucking vampire until Dracula was born of a novel by Brahm Desperate to free Selena from Apollos Stoker in 1897. Although filled with sexy grasp, Ambrogio sought help from the pheromones that his vampire emitted to god of the underworld, Hades. He made captivate its prey, Stokers vampire was a deal with Hades to steal the goddess anything, but romantic.
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