Abstract
This article presents a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject. It provides a new approach to modeling intertemporal interactions between vampires and humans based popular fiction literature, comic books, films and TV series. It is mainly concerned with the following question: would peaceful co-existence of humans and vampires be possible from a scientific point of view? And if so, why do not humans encounter vampires more often. Mathematical modeling enables us to conclude that several popular culture sources outline the models describing plausible and peaceful vampire and human co-existence.
Highlights
IntroductionVampires as well as the economic significance of vampirism and optimal bloodsucking strategies (e.g. preventing the depletion of renewable human resources) made their way into the mainstream research literature becoming an inspiration for several academic papers (e.g. [1,2,3,4])
Vampires as well as the economic significance of vampirism and optimal bloodsucking strategies made their way into the mainstream research literature becoming an inspiration for several academic papers (e.g. [1,2,3,4]).The description of vampires, the man’s natural predators, can be found in legends and folklore
We reviewed some of the popular literature sources, comic books, and films on vampires and identified four types of scenarios describeing vampire-human interactions
Summary
Vampires as well as the economic significance of vampirism and optimal bloodsucking strategies (e.g. preventing the depletion of renewable human resources) made their way into the mainstream research literature becoming an inspiration for several academic papers (e.g. [1,2,3,4]). Frayling [11] states that in one particular case, when describing Wallachian peasants performing forced labour for their boyars, Marx refered to one specific “boyar” who was “drunk with victory” and who might had been no one but Wallachian prince Vlad (called “The Impaler”)—or well-known Count Dracula from the eponymous book. This is very peculiar because Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, did not see the light of the day until 1897, some 14 years after Marx’s death. These scenarios were used to draw models of vampire-human confrontation using the predator-prey model specified above
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