The belief in the existence of vampires is consolidated both in Eastern Europe and is also to be found elsewhere. Romantic literature at first and cinema later have described vampires through their seductive costumes, whilst historical evidence for such a belief (especially those from the 17thand 18thcenturies) describes buried farmers coming back home to get their shoes, scaring people with their presence or making noises, stealing food and eating whatever they come across, sucking blood from human and animals, going back to their tombs plump and rosy –to be found out when they will be dug up: at this point, on the grounds of such hints, it becomes necessary to dismember their bodies, to open them, take their heart off, behead them, burn them if needed.Vampirism tells of the difficulty of drawing a clear line between life and death, the fear that the dead will return, become parasites of the living.