I met this man in peru a few years ago, and i still believe he is a vampire, not leave the house during day time, pale and always smell like blood!
Well that's strange. Did you have any garlic?
Well his name was Allium Sativum wich is the scientific name of garlic... you tell me
Hmm that's pretty ironic... what did you talk with him about?
vampiric creatures such as the "chupacabra" still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.
The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of
Allium
Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. The generic name "Allium" is the Latin word for garlic, and the type species for the genus is "Allium sativum" which means "cultivated garlic".
Linnaeus first described the genus "Allium" in 1753. Some sources refer to Greek αλεω (aleo, to avoid) by reason of the smell of garlic. Various "Allium"