[ferretchucker]

Vampire lore has changed so much over the years. I think it was actually on this site that I first heard one of the old superstitions about if a corpse falls of a cart...they become a vampire. Essentially, the drinking blood thing is just one of many different ways to become a vampire.

However, I've always generally felt that a vampire had to have died, or at least, pushed the brink of death. Perhaps as part of the process. As in, you couldn't feed an already dead body and turn it into a vampire. Instead, you would feed them the vampire blood, the transformation may then begin and at some point it would kill the person.