This is a
condensed combination of the Vampire Creation Myth. To my knowledge,
there are five, three of which I have seen. All are based on Native
American myth but two are based on 'The Book of Enoch' (about the
fallen angels and the Watchers). To save time I have condensed the
non-Christian ones here. To my knowledge the basis for these myths
are deeply rooted in the religious lore and Shamanism of the Lakota
Sioux, Cherokee and Black Foot Nations.
The
Myth
There was once a brave and
powerful Medicine Man and Healer who was kind and ruled his tribe
with love. His brother was the Chief of the Ten Tribes. The Medicine
Man loved a maiden named Laughing Sky. He and his love were wed and
they lived among their people in peace and harmony with all. But
Laughing Sky was barren and brought forth no
children.
One day the Medicine
Man, in his anguish for the lack of a son, raised his head and
challenged the Great Spirit. He declared that he would no longer
obey all things, if he where not given a son.
But the Great Spirit was
deaf to his plea and listened not.
As the days passed
Laughing Sky grew old and the end of her child bearing time drew
nigh. In desperation, the Medicine Man turned to
the more negative spirits for aid in making Laughing Sky fertile.
He did things forbidden and one
sad day opened a portal by the use of magick, through which entered
a dark spirit named Jumlin.
Jumlin was a
strong and dominant negative spirit who sought life in the living
dimension of the Earth and tricked the Medicine Man to bring him
forth. He promised in payment for bringing him out of the Spirit
Realm into the world that he would bestow the Medicine Man with many
healthy sons and daughters to enrich his later
years.
Jumlin promised the Medicine Man
that Laughing Sky would bring forth to bare a beautiful and healthy
son nine months after the Medicine Man granted Jumlin's desire to be
brought from the Realm of Spirit Shadows into the Living World.
The Medicine Man
complied.
Even though to do
so was forbidden, the Medicine Man brought the Spirit of Jumlin into
the world.
But Jumlin had
fooled the great Medicine Man. Jumlin had shielded much of his power
and once across the Divide, he possessed the Medicine Man, going
into his heart, mind and body.
Jumlin was a hard
and cruel spirit, dominant and hungry. He fed on blood of living
things. First the animals of the forest, then the horses and finally
on the people of his tribe.
As the Medicine
Man, Jumlin had power and control of his people. He first selected
the strongest of Braves to feed upon and in his hunger and blood
lust fed from them unto their deaths.
The Medicine Man's brother, the Chief, and his
people lived in fear. As Jumlin continued, his physical and mental
powers grew stronger until none dared to resist him.
The stronger he became the more he took advantage of those
weaker. Then one day he stopped feeding from the males and went into
the female population of his village, doing as ever he liked or
willed with their minds and bodies as he fed.
As with the males he satisfied himself fully with the women ...
most died. In the spring, those who did not die, became with child
and there where many new births in the village, all healthy, robust
children.
The young, and older,
braves, even though terrified, hated their Medicine Man more and
more as he did as he pleased to their wives and daughters, sisters
and nieces.
As the days grew into
summer, Jumlin's appetites increased. He was now unstoppably strong
in all ways and became even more
negative.
All lived in dreadful fear
as woman upon woman and then the female children began to die of
Jumlin's cruelty and feeding.
As fall approached the men
of the tribe could stand it no more and despite their fears, they
sent two messengers to a nearby tribe to consult their medicine man.
They were told that their Medicine Man was no longer he whom they
had known, but the evil Spirit
Jumlin.
And they learned the ancient methods for his destruction,
for now, no more could he be killed as a mortal man is
killed.
When they
returned, after several months, they found Jumlin's spouse large
with child and very ill. She lived to bring forth into the world
Jumlin's child, who was called Laughing Bear.
Soon after giving
birth, Laughing Sky fell into Child Bed Fever and the braves banded
together in a plot to destroy Jumlin. But he was aware of it at
once.
He killed Laughing
Sky and drained her of her blood and did the same to the leader of
the young braves as the warrior slept.
Jumlin took his
son, several of the other children and their mothers in the dead of
night and escaped. He gave the women and their children to several
braves in various villages to buy their protection for a time as he
made his way across the plains.
After a time only
he and Laughing Bear rode together. Laughing Bear soon grew to be as
cruel and indulgent as his father.
Several months
hence, they came to yet another village where they stopped to rest.
As Laughing Bear slept, Jumlin went abroad into the night as was his
want. This time his feeding was more vicious than ever and his
victim was the chief's eldest daughter.
As Jumlin, deep in
a blood lust frenzy, partook of her, he was discovered by her father
and three of the Hunters who had been following them all these
months. Jumlin was killed, or actually destroyed, by the magic
knowledge of the Hunters, but Laughing Bear escaped.
Laughing Bear and
his brothers and sisters, begot by Jumlin, are said to be living to
this day. Breeding with humans and their own kind to produce the
first race of Inheritors.
They are
physically powerful, live eternally and are negative in
nature.
They are both the
first Vampires and the ancestors of the first Vampires. And they
walk the Earth today.
So said the three
Native American Myths.
Another Cherokee Vampire Myth
U`TLÛÑ'TÄ ~ A
VAMPIRE FROM CHEROKEE FOLKLORE
Among the Cherokee there is a
legend of a terrible bloodthirsty ogress who slaughters people and
eats their livers.
Known as the U`tlûñ'ta, this
she-creature can adopt any shape or appearance to suit her purpose,
but in her right form she looks very much like an old woman, except
that her whole body is covered with a skin as hard as a rock that no
weapon can penetrate.
On her right hand she has a
long, stony forefinger made from hard bone, shaped like an awl or
the head of a spear. She uses this ghastly weapon to stab whomever
she encounters.
Because of this fearsome weapon
she is called U`tlûñ'tä, or 'Spear-finger'. Some people call her
Nûñ'yunu'ï, or 'Stone-dress' because of her stony
skin.
By whatever name she is called,
though, this vengeful and bloodthirsty creature is to be deeply
feared.
As
ever, Catherene NightPoe
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Come one come all Mortals who are willing to stick their neck out for a vampire to feed upon. We will be willing to share our Dark Gift to you mortals if you pass our test.