Vampires Vs Ghosts

The idea of a human corpse or body coming back to life or the spirit of one who has since passed on revisiting the realm of the living is not new. All cultures around the world have some form of this myth. Scholars (and even those who have strong common sense) have hypothesized that the prominence of these myths, legends, and stories is related to the human fear and wonder of what awaits beyond the land of the living. Having a loved one reanimate after their heart has stopped beating or the spirit of him or her return to inadvertently interact or even speak to the living is a very comforting thought to the family and friends of a recently deceased person. However, many tales of bodies moving around and performing actions after death or a spirit that has contact with living humans are actually rather frightening. Dead bodies coming back to life could be vampires who continue living off of human blood or zombies who live off of human flesh. Ghosts have a tendency to haunt the living or disturbing inanimate objects to scare humans or destroy a certain inhabited area. These two entities seem to make up two different parts of a human being—the vampire or zombie being the body and the ghost being the soul. The combination of the two might even make a living person again. However, since the concept of a zombie is a relatively modern one and is only seen in in the Voodoo religion, vampires are really the most dominant form of dead bodies that receive new life. Still, one must look into which is the better legend—the body (as vampires) versus the spirit (as ghosts).