This post is a continuation of the previous posts about the Roman Toga and Monk’s Robes. About how the way the robe wraps about the body is meant to mimic the way that the inside of the body feels to a person who has properly developed. The idea of proper development was related to the monks superior attainment. The Romans, being ancient people, represent a human society more aware of the human body and how it works, and Roman society was known for conquest and many modern inventions. The Romans had an understanding of what it was that made people powerful.
A vampire is a creature that is traditonally regarded as having power also. Some kind of higher attainment than normal people. Most modern stories of vampires focus around vampires sucking blood. This is not reality. Vampires suck energy. Energy is not something that could be shown in a film, so people substituted Blood for Energy. If a person talkes of “life force” or “life essence”, they could be referring to actual energy, or they could be referring to blood which could be interpreted as the substance that keeps a person alive.
It is traditional in movies to depict Vampires as wearing a long flowing cape. They frequently wrap themselves in the cape to “disappear” from the view of the person. The also use the cape to hide themselves or to distract a person they are trying to hypnotize/mind control.
A vampire is depicted as wearing a long flowing cape for the same reason Romans and Monks wear flowing robes. Power. The cape mimics the way the body feels to a person who has developed their body to a high level. It feels like the flesh is like the cape, and it can be wrapped or looped around the bones, the way the cloth of the garment is wrapped about the flesh and blood arm and body.
It is interesting that Vampires can supposedly control people’s minds and that Monks are associated with elevating the minds of people. Both of them have the subject of mind manipulation associated with them.
