The vampire tradition and legend has some validity on a global scale. Through antiquity the notes and journals of travelers mention the vampire in a few paragraphs or a quick note that they have heard the legend. In ancient times the writings about vampires exist, but exist in few numbers. Writings of vampires have been found more recently in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Leone Allacci’s “De Graecorum Hodie Quorundam Opinationibus” published in 1645 had several volumes devoted to the vampire mystery. Later in 1657, more was written about vampires in Father Francois Richard’s “Relation De Ce Qui S’est Passe De Plus Remarquable Sant-Erini.

 During the turn of the 20^th Century, there were more written on vampires, particularly the Modern Greek vampire in J.G. Lawson’s “Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion,” but this only covered the Greek legends and did not transcend to other Mediterranean or European countries. His rich detail could have lent to the perseverance of neighboring countries that are rich in vampire lore. All documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth century as well a Lawson’s work tends to point that there was a virtual plague of vampirism around Hungary and other Eastern Europe and Baltic states.