Dracula Charm Sterling Silver Xinar.com

Xinar’s Dracula charm comes with incredible detail (and a headstone, too!) If you need to bring the creepy-o-meter way up on your current craft, pick this charm. Dracula is one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, and just having Dracula on a bracelet sets the tone for the entire piece. A genuinely excellent silver Halloween charm for every crafter.

Dracula is decidedly the most famous vampire ever. But where did vampires come from?

Because wandering bloodsucking ghouls and corpses have a long and very colorful history, it’s challenging to pin down a particular set of features that can only be attributed to vampires.

The attraction to human blood or any other life essence (including psychic energy) is central to vampire mythology. So we have to include possession in the formula, as well as having sharp fangs or teeth.

Vampires are usually depicted as “undead”—that is, having been resurrected after death—and many are supposed to rise every night from their coffins or graves, which must often contain some quantity of native soil.

Vampires are generally described as having pale skin and varying degrees of grotesqueness to unearthly beauty, depending on the story you are reading. Another common physical attribute is their complete inability to produce a shadow or mirror reflection, which explains why it is difficult for people to take pictures of them or catch them on video.