Bøger af Vidanage P. Karunaratne

True Living Vampires, inter-alia could be identified as another category of vampires who are living human beings or historical true characters, suffering from a blood fetish or an infatuation or an obsession to drink or suck blood from their victims. In their psychosis or syndromic mentality, they cannot survive without drinking blood, mostly human blood. In the modern medical terminology, this category of vampires is supposed to be suffering from an ailment called ¿Haematomaniä or in other words, ¿Clinical Vampirism¿ which syndrome could be explained as a morbid psychosexual desire to consume human blood. According to the research carried out by the writer, such vampires were/are found throughout the history of many countries and have become true living people known by their associates, neighbours and the law enforcement authorities. Consequently, most of them are accused of raping, sodomizing, mutilating and finally murdering their victims and as a result, eventually condemned to death, to life imprisonment, to certain terms in prison or confined to mental asylums/ institutions. Most of these vampires have been classified as ¿Serial Killers¿ both in the West and in the East.

The writer wishes to impose limitations restricting his analysis only to such Vampires whose existence is substantiated by historically documented evidence and other empirical evidence proven by reliable sources that had carried out extensive research and produced such studies as printed publications. As an exponent of discreet and meticulous research, the writer has taken due care to exclude from his analysis even reported cases of True Vampirism that touch even a semblance of fiction.The word ¿revenant¿ is derived from the Latin word ¿revenans¿ and the related French verb is ¿revenir¿ which means ¿to come back¿. Perhaps due to a misunderstanding of the word ¿Revenant¿ as an Undead person who ¿comes back¿ or ¿returns¿ to his former life only with the sole purpose of wreaking vengeance on the perpetrators of crime or stated differently,only to avenge his murder,the Revenants who lived during the medieval era had been stigmatized as violent individuals on their own accord or as living dead or Undead, manipulated by demonic animation.But, Real Revenants are a category of individuals who are rather harmless and perhaps possessed somewhat paranormal powers both physically and mentally.