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Originally Posted by Cloudedmind
Vampires dying in sunlight is largely a fiction mechanic that you don't really see in actual vampire myths. And it wasn't even started with the character people often most associate it with, Dracula. If memory serves Nosferatu takes the cake for first fictional vampire to be weak to sunlight.
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Certainly (
World of Darkness springs to mind as well), though vampires have been more popular culture than myth for as long as what we think of as vampires have been around. Vampires as seductive immortals rather than corpses climbing out the grave is entirely from novels, films and modern psychological/social anxieties.