Talk:Vampire folklore by region

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Jewish section needs a complete rewrite

Before going ahead I wanted feedback. My problem with it, is that the surces used in it are not Jewish ones! Some examples of the portrayal of non-Jewish sources as Jewish ones:

The quoting of the "Testament of Solomon"- this is NOT part of the Jewish canon and has never been studied by Jews or part of Judaism

the myth of Lilith: The version of the myth here is from a 10th century book called the "Alef Bet of Ben Sirath". Again, this is NOT a Jewish book and has never been part of Judaism. On the contrary Jewish sources contemporary to it were very critical of it seeing it as 1) a work designed to shed suspicion on Jews and to portray them as demon worshippers and heretics or 2) a complete work of fiction with nothing in it of impoortance

Using documents found inside a copy of the Zohar in the Ritman library as being a Jewish source. While the Zohar is, the documents were inserted into the copy there- and the Ritman library is a CHRISTIAN-HERMETIC library. Considering this is the only source for those documents, it is most likely they are NOT Jewish in origin but from either a Christian or hermetic source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allonyoav (talk • contribs) 14:16, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Vampires in Japan

The article says "Japan has no native legends about vampires". But obviously Yuki-onna is a negative vampire found in the folklore. (Refer the third paragraph under Behaviour) NisansaDdS (talk) 20:47, 25 December 2014 (UTC)