That said, vampires aren't entirely relegated to fiction either. “If you strip down folklore and just come up with a standard set of facts, vampires very well could be real,” Weiss says.

Nowadays we are fascinated with vampires, from the sparkly heartthrobs of teen-sensation Twilight to the hapless vampires attempting to navigate the modern world in What We Do In The Shadows.

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From the ancient lore of the Slavic peoples through the Polish Romantic literature of Mickiewicz up to contemporary inspirations and the most recent archaeological finds, Polish vampires continue to ...