Vampires caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited when they were alive and they were feared.
 In some cases, especially in small localities, beliefs are still rampant and sightings or claims of vampire attacks occur frequently
 Vampiric entities have been recorded in cultures around the world; the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in Southeastern and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism

