Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-67.80.49.73-20150208080851/@comment-6383956-20150223034510

Well, vampire myths are wide and varied. Depending what region of the country you're looking in, any thing could be seen as an indication that you would rise from the dead as a vampire -- birth order, handedness, hair color, being ill in life... so yes, there *are* some early myths where people suspected of being a werewolf were believed to rise from the dead as vampires.

And for the record, zombies have always been -- according to myth -- corpses raised through spellcraft. The disease angle was created by Hollywood.