Meat is the flesh of conscious life just as it is taken in the form of a beautiful fawn in the grip of a powerful tiger's jaw. In a mere thirty generations past, each of us has over one million ancestors. Thus we are all intertwined in both our brutal past and our serene and peaceful past, whichever you prefer. And we are all thus descended from hunters. The Vampire as Metaphor to Bloody History Vampire folklore has traditionally presented a rich and haunting metaphor based upon blood.
Blood is the living river of life that is sacred to our existence.
I would not suggest that vampirism is real. Sure, there are human blood freaks. But none of them are eternal. I have yet to see evidence that anyone can become supernatural or perpetually reincarnate by sucking blood before or after death. Human taste for blood is, like the tiger, nearly ubiquitous in our species.