Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-67.80.49.73-20150208080851/@comment-20237552-20150223051721

Grahamburglar wrote: 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. Indeed you are correct about the zombies being originally revived by witchcraft...I mustn't have expanded on that input...I was aware that the zombie "disease" was never a traditional thing for myth and it was created from Hollywood fiction, which seems to have expanded through many media productions, but yes you have a point.

And yea, it does depend...I just find that particular reanimation of a werewolf corpse to a vampire skeptical...but by all means, I can't necessarily say that you're incorrect and vice versa. But referring back to the thread's primary discussion, I think the Wendigos are far enough that TW comes to "Vampire" traits without actually taking away the theme of the series. But even so, they had more of a Zombie cliche trait to them being canibals but they didn't really stay with the full cliche (eating the victim's brains out) which is good. But yea, TBH if Vampires were Wendigos, I'd still prefer to be a Werewolf.