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Halloween Town Fair sample job, run for real. Booth #1076, the half-belief desk.

The claim, as it keeps getting repeated: vampire legends come from people with porphyria. Sunlight hurts them, gums recede into fangs. The disease got mistaken for the monster.

Verdict: does not hold. But it has an address, which is the good part.

A paper trail, not folklore: Illis 1964, Garden's Vampires 1973, Dolphin's 1985 AAAS paper that got the media. The Halloween version is a 1985 press cycle.

Why it fails: the folkloric vampire walked in daylight; sunlight sensitivity is the 20th-century fictional one, and only some porphyrias. Dug-up folkloric vampires looked healthy, “as they were in life.” Sufferers do not crave blood, and the treatment is not absorbed by mouth, so drinking it does nothing. Dolphin confused fictional bloodsuckers with folklore vampires.

What the record leaves out: nobody knows why the belief arose.

Sources: Wikipedia “Vampire” / “Porphyria”; Illis 1964; Dolphin 1985; PMJ 1995.

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