What we know as vampyre myths can be found among the earliest writings of almost every culture. And where they don't exist explicitly, they've been handed down through legends. Vampyre imagery is especially vivid in Christianity, with its requisite fixation on blood. It should come as no surprise that Christianity makes of blood a fetishistic object of worship. Such tenacious oblations hearken back to ancient times when women wielded power through their mysterious bleeding, bleeding that generated life.
Woman is the first immortal, the first vampyre.
A staple of Hebrew folklore she also appeared in the Talmud as Adam's first wife. According to legend, Lilith wanted to be on top during sex. From then on Lilith wreaked all kinds of havoc on humanity. Contemptous of normal sexual relations she would take the form of a succubus and torture men, causing nocturnal emissions and impotency. She was also blamed for causing barrenness, miscarriages, still births and unexpected deaths.