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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vayntrub, who played Lily in several <keyword id="28808" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ATT">AT&amp;T</keyword> commercials, opened up about facing <keyword id="1423058" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="online-harassment">online harassment</keyword>.</li><li>The "<keyword id="11558929" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="werewolves-within">Werewolves Within</keyword>" star said she was "surprised" by the support she received from fans.</li><li>"It was surprising in every way, in the support and in the controversy," she told Insider. </li></ul><keyword id="4750764" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="milana-vayntrub">Milana Vayntrub</keyword> revealed in a new interview with Insider that she was "surprised" by the support she received after opening up about her experience with online harassment.The actress has appeared on shows like "This Is Us" (and stars in the new horror-comedy "Werewolves Within") but is perhaps most recognized for playing a friendly AT&amp;T employee named Lily in a series of commercials. Last year Vayntrub took to Instagram Live to <a href="https://www.insider.com/att-lily-actress-milana-vayntrub-commercial-harassment-online-comments-instagram-photos-2020">denounce the sexually explicit comments</a> and online harassment she'd received as a result of appearing in the ads - and told Insider in a recent interview that the whole controversy was unexpected. "I wasn't upset because people shared their opinions on my appearance, but I said something because just by showing up to do my job, I received unwanted sexual and violent comments about my body and what people want to do to it," the actress said. She slammed "the idea that it is my job to avoid being harassed," and said the entire experience "was surprising in every way, in the support and in the controversy." "Like so many women and so many nonbinary people, I'm expected to go to unreasonable lengths to avoid harassment," Vayntrub continued. "That can be even worse for people of color online because it's often coupled with racial slurs."After Vayntrub's Instagram Live, numerous fans online offered messages of support and condemned her harassers. AT&amp;T also spoke out in support of Vayntrub, eventually disabling the comments section of an Instagram post featuring her Lily character. But Vayntrub told Insider she still carefully considers each scene she partakes in. "Of course I take into account how much skin I'm showing and whether I have a violent scene or a sexual scene, or honestly, whether I'm showing my feet or not, because it becomes a conversation about the way that I'm treated online," she said. "I'm unfortunately always thinking about it." "Werewolves Within," which premiered June 25, is available on demand now. You can watch Vayntrub in the trailer below.

Milana Vayntrub says she still second-guesses every scene she's in after facing 'unwanted sexual and violent comments' over her AT&T commercials

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Lore about vampires and other blood-drinking beings has existed for centuries.</li><li>For hundreds of years, people have been coming up with scientific explanations.</li></ul>In the early 1700s, a series of unusual events kicked off a "<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369848612000313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media sensation</a>" about vampires. One physician <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Dracula/-sg-DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%22magical+plague+has+been+rampant%22&amp;pg=PA15&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> a "magical plague" in Serbia where "perfectly normal <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ways-villagers-buried-vampires-to-stop-rising-from-dead-2023-8">buried dead are arising</a> from their undisturbed graves to kill the living."Articles and books on these vampire attacks soon appeared in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and London. There was skepticism, but some observers <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3814375" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treated the</a> phenomenon of vampires almost scientifically. They noted eye-witness accounts of how the bodies looked and the evidence that the deceased had been harassing or murdering others. Was this a magical plague or a more typical one? Vampires were very real to people in the past, but there are many ways science can explain their characteristics, whether they come from folklore or fiction.<h2>What is a vampire? </h2>There are blood-drinking creatures hailing from many countries' folklore, dating back <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv6gqxp2?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of years</a>. But many modern notions of vampires started with the 1700s media frenzy and continued with "Dracula" and other tales.According to many Slavic traditions, a vampire is an <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1982.00108.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undead being</a> that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/archaeologists-find-vampire-child-padlocked-in-polish-graveyard-2023-8">rises from the grave</a> to drink blood and take its life force from the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709546" target="_blank" rel="noopener">living</a>. The vampire's victims might then become undead themselves.There were also many other ways to make a vampire. <div type="image" title="An illustration of several people digging up a coffin" height="1500" width="2000" msid="104608080" hostid="261"></div>People who were murdered or died by suicide or of the plague might become vampires. Supernatural beings, like <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nq6gm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">witches and werewolves</a>, were also candidates. Those who misused alcohol or were seen as disreputable could come back from the grave. Someone could also be born a vampire. In Romania, the seventh child was susceptible to vampirism. Babies who were <a href="https://www.insider.com/baby-born-with-second-mouth-extra-teeth-tongue-surgically-removed-2020-6">born with teeth</a> or were <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/baby-born-amniotic-sac-caul-birth-rare-spain-hospital-membrane-2016-11">covered in a caul</a> or amniotic membrane were suspicious, too. In many countries, it was important to watch over the body of a loved one before burial. Anything from a cat to a human leaping over a body could cause it to turn into a revenant. According to an early 19th-century Serbian <a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297274543?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;imgSeq=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anthropologist</a>, "An honest man cannot vampirize, unless some bird or other living creature flies or jumps across his dead body." <h2>Was vampirism based on a real disease? </h2>Pale skin, fear of sunlight, pointy fangs, and a taste for blood — all the tropes of fictional vampires have long caused people to connect the characteristics to symptoms of real diseases, from rabies to leukemia to tuberculosis.Pediatrician Michael Hefferon favors porphyria, a group of rare disorders caused by a buildup of a chemical called porphyrin. They're needed to make hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to tissues. An excess causes a range of symptoms. "People might present firstly with illness and fatigue," Hefferon told Insider. They may also have sensitivity to light that causes blistered skin, and their urine may appear red or brown. A 2016 article in <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/2547233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAMA Dermatology</a> called it a "dubious link" between the disorder and folkloric vampires. A neurologist suggested <a href="https://n.neurology.org/content/51/3/856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rabies</a>, which animals can transmit to humans through a bite, as another potential disease people may have mistaken for vampirism. The disease can cause light sensitivity and affect sleep-wake cycles, leading to insomnia — a potential reason for vampires' nocturnal activities. Researchers who looked at early <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31713762/#full-view-affiliation-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vampire novels</a> thought <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-base-editing-gene-editing-leukemia-breakthrough-2022-12">leukemia</a> might have been an inspiration. While people with leukemia can look pale, Hefferon said patients either recovered or died. "It's not like a vampire disease where people are wandering the earth for years and years getting to look more and more like vampires," he said. Folklorist Michael Bell <a href="https://www.rimonthly.com/vampire-hunter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attributes</a> US cases of suspected vampirism in the 1700s and 1800s to tuberculosis. Those sick with TB grew fatigued, lost weight, and coughed up blood. <a href="https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/107/11/945/2890493?login=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pellagra</a>, caused by vitamin deficiency and which causes light sensitivity, has also been cited as a vampire-like condition. <h2>Did Bram Stoker base Dracula on a cholera outbreak? </h2>Bram Stoker published "Dracula" in 1897. Arguably the world's most famous fictional vampire, Dracula embodied many of the hallmarks of vampires that now seem cliché: He was pale, charming, and dressed in black, "with peculiarly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canine-teeth-sharp-front-apes-evolution-ancestors-2019-5">sharp white teeth</a>." While sunlight sapped the count's powers, it was <a href="https://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/review-nosferatu-casts-haunting-shadow-over-cinema-100-years-later/article_02460eb6-4f46-11ed-84c0-2f4483902070.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not until</a> the 1922 film "Nosferatu" that the sun's rays killed vampires. To create his immortal being, Stoker drew on a number of influences, including tales of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dracula-vlad-the-impaler-sick-cried-blood-say-scientists-2023-8">Vlad the Impaler</a>. He may have <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24290266/#full-view-affiliation-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partially based</a> Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the vampire hunter, on his brother, a physician who performed some of the earliest modern brain surgeries. <div type="image" title="A portrait of Vlad the Impaler wearing a jeweled headpiece" height="1499" width="1999" msid="104608081" hostid="261"></div>Originally, Stoker <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65745910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set the story</a> in Austria. Later, he moved it further east and took names and bits of folklore from <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40131601?typeAccessWorkflow=login" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Transylvanian Superstitions,"</a> an article written by Emily Gerard. "Every person killed by a nosferatu becomes likewise a vampire after death, and will continue to suck the blood of other innocent people until the spirit has been exorcised," she wrote. Cures included staking the corpse or firing a bullet into the coffin. Historian Marion McGarry has suggested Stoker also took inspiration from his mother, Charlotte. She wrote about a cholera epidemic she lived through as a girl. The disease spreads through <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cholera-spreading-in-haiti-is-likely-descended-from-2010-strain-2022-12">contaminated water</a>, but when Stoker's mother was a child, its means of transmission were unknown. In Charlotte Stoker's reminiscences, people with the disease were accidentally buried alive, a fear echoed in her son's novel. "Count Dracula treads a path very similar to cholera: a devastating contagion traveling from the East by ship that people initially do not know how to fight," according to McGarry. In 2014, an anthropologist <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/690904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posited that</a> 17th-century bodies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-vampire-burials-and-what-they-mean-according-to-experts-2022-9">buried in Poland</a> with sickles and rocks — presumably to prevent them from rising as vampires — may have died during a cholera epidemic. <h2>Vampire fiction versus folklore </h2>As a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-human-bodies-decay-2016-11">body decomposes</a>, cells burst, leaking enzymes and chemicals. Blood pools in capillaries and veins, altering the skin's color. Bacteria digest tissue. The body bloats with methane, ammonia, and other gasses. The buildup of liquefied tissue and gas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/may/05/life-after-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can either</a> leak out of orifices or cause the stomach to burst. Much of this deterioration takes place within the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/how-long-bodies-take-to-decompose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first year</a>, but it can take a decade or longer until only bones remain. Several conditions — like extreme temperature and soil acidity — can affect the rate of decomposition. In 1892, residents of Exeter, Rhode Island, exhumed the bodies of three women, all members of the same family who had died of consumption. Two had died nearly a decade earlier. One woman, Mercy Bell, had recently died. When her brother became sick, too, the villagers decided to examine the bodies.The older corpses had decomposed as expected. But Mercy Bell looked very fresh, seemingly still full of blood. The villagers burned her heart and mixed the ashes in with her brother's medicine in an attempt to cure him. He died several weeks later.Throughout history, many people have found or exhumed extraordinarily <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bog-bodies-science-preservation-sphagnan-peat-moss-2015-10">well-preserved bodies</a>. Tightly sealed coffins or freezing temperatures can delay decomposition. In the case of Mercy Bell, she'd been buried for only a couple of months in the coldest months of winter.For centuries, people employed protection against vampires. Many involved ways of treating a dead body. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vampire-burial-rock-mouth-meant-prevent-rising-dead-2022-9">Piercing various body parts</a> with sharp objects; including candles, coins, alcohol, and other objects in the coffin; rubbing garlic on the body; and consuming blood from <a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297353766?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true&amp;imgSeq=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the corpse</a> were all ways to prevent someone from rising from the grave. One folklorist saw vampires <a href="https://www.academia.edu/6804739/Review_of_Jan_Louis_Perkowski_Vampire_Lore_From_the_Writings_of_Jan_Louis_Perkowski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as scapegoats</a>, accused because of "a need to determine the cause of misfortunes." To make sense of what was happening — perhaps the deceased's friends and family becoming ill, too — villagers might blame the first person to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/black-death-changed-human-immune-system-still-affects-today-study-2022-10">die from the plague</a> or another epidemic. If they exhumed a body, some signs of decomposition could be misattributed to markers of life: a reddened face from pooling blood, a shifted position caused by bloating and escaping gas, and liquified tissue that resembled fresh blood. <div type="image" title="Bela Lugosi as Dracula looms over a sleeping Helen Chandler in the movie Dracula" height="1498" width="1997" msid="104608082" hostid="261"></div>A corpse's beard and fingernails may appear longer, though it was an illusion created by shriveling skin. Driving a stake into the body, decapitating it, and cremation were all methods of trying to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-vampire-skeleton-discovered-in-17th-century-graveyard-poland-2022-9">stop a vampire</a> from killing others. As scientists began to learn and understand more about the body and death, stories about vampires started to evolve. In 1819, a physician named John Polidori revamped the supernatural beings' image, <a href="https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/conversation-perverse-passions-will-not-die" target="_blank" rel="noopener">basing his</a> wealthy, debonair Lord Ruthven in "The Vampyre" on the romantic poet Lord Byron.A suave monster, Ruthven was by turns alluring and appalling. That vampiric ability to transform makes them enduring, with an appeal that seems unlikely to die anytime soon.

Bloodsuckers or bloated corpses? How science has tried to explain vampire myths.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11531704" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="harvey-guilln">Harvey Guillén</keyword> told Insider that he wants Guillermo to lean into his vampire slayer heritage.</li><li>Guillén plays Guillermo on FX's "<keyword id="4684358" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="what-we-do-in-the-shadows">What We Do in the Shadows</keyword>," based on the movie of the same name.</li><li>The actor also said he wants Sarah Michelle Gellar to "come out of retirement" for the FX show.</li></ul>Harvey Guillén revealed that he wants his character Guillermo on FX's "What We Do in the Shadows" to embrace his vampire slayer birthright on the upcoming third season. "I would love for the storyline to maybe go in a direction of where Guillermo leans more into his Van Helsing heritage and meets a real Slayer," Guillén told Insider in a recent interview.The actor, who plays the human familiar to a narcissistic vampire on FX's horror comedy, also stars in the new film "Werewolves Within," which focuses on a small rural town besieged by a mysterious predator that turns out to be a werewolf. But while Guillén's most recent project features a terrifying lycanthrope, he told Insider that he was drawn more to vampire movies and <keyword id="6355065" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TV">TV</keyword> shows - especially Sarah Michelle Gellar's character on "<keyword id="841350" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</keyword>," whom Guillén previously said <a href="https://comicbook.com/horror/news/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-harvey-guillen-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/">he'd love to see guest star on the FX show</a>. <div type="image" title="what we do in the shadows" height="671" width="895" msid="83938133" hostid="261"></div>"It'd be like, here comes Buffy! And Buffy comes out of retirement to help him and pass over the baton of being the Slayer," Guillén said of his vision for the "What We Do in the Shadows" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" crossover episode. "They'd be so cool fighting evil side-by-side," he continued. "Who knows, the possibilities are endless. Just get Sarah Michelle Gellar to the show." Guillén even said he'd seen fan art of his character Guillermo and Gellar's Buffy - two of TV's most iconic vampire hunters - fighting monsters together. "There's some really cool work where like, someone put Buffy and Guillermo back to back fighting an army of vampires," the actor told Insider. "I saw it and I literally got little goosebumps because I was like, 'This is so cool.'" In early June, news broke that season three of the hit FX comedy would be <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-3-release-date.html">premiering on September 2</a>. The second season ended with Guillermo's vampire roommates becoming aware of his skills as a Slayer.While Guillén wasn't able to share any specific plot points about season three, he told Insider that the new episodes would pick up "right where" the second season left off - and for fans to expect a mysterious Siren as well as guest stars "from the past."

Harvey Guillén wants his 'What We Do in the Shadows' character to team up with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in season 3

<ul><li>Halloween this year will occur on the same night as the Full Blue Moon for the first time since the second world war. </li><li>Even though the Full Blue Moon is supposed to fall on the same day every 19 years, the lunar cycle shifted after 1944, so that it fell on November 1 instead of October 31.</li><li>This is the first time in 76 years and the Full Blue Moon will fall on October 31 yet again.</li></ul>Pop culture may make it seem like every Halloween is a Full Moon with werewolves jumping out of the shadows. However, that isn’t usually the case — except for this year. In 2020, for the first time since World War II, a Full Blue Moon will grace the night sky on the eve of Halloween. This is the second Full Moon to show up in October — the first time being the Harvest Full Moon on October 1. <div type="image" title="blue moon" msid="78950894" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The two Full Moons in October&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> October has 31 days and the average time between Full Moons in 29.5 days so a Full Blue Moon is technically supposed to occur on the same date every 19 years. However, since 1944 the cycle had shifted and the Full Blue Moon was occurring on November 1 in some of the world, according to the <a href="https://www.farmersalmanac.com/blue-moon-supermoon-2020-104546">Farmer’s Almanac</a>. Now that the difference has caught up, for the first time in 76 years, Halloween will fall on the same night as the Blue Moon again simultaneously across the world. <keyword id="10190355" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="What-is-halloween">What is Halloween</keyword>? Halloween wasn’t always Halloween. The origins can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain — a civilisation that lived nearly 2,000 years ago — during which people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off the spirits. It was only in the eighth century that Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as All Saints Day, and the evening before — October 31 — was dubbed All Hallows Eve. Modern-day activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, or setting up haunted houses only came into the picture much later. Even though Halloween in 1963, 1982 and 2001 did not have a Full Blue Moon — the one in 2039, 2058, 2077, and 2096 will be luckier as per the 19-year pattern. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/kepler-estimates-there-are-at-least-300-million-potentially-habitable-planets-within-the-milky-way-galaxy/articleshow/78946863.cms">Kepler estimates there are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets within the Milky Way galaxy</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/mit-has-a-new-ai-model-that-can-detect-asymptomatic-covid-19-patients-just-by-the-using-the-sound-of-their-coughs-recorded-over-phone-calls/articleshow/78927475.cms">MIT has a new AI model that can detect asymptomatic COVID-19 patients just by the using the sound of their coughs recorded over phone calls</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/tata-communications-executive-explains-how-iot-is-expanding-beyond-manufacturing-and-which-sectors-are-showing-the-fastest-growth/articleshow/78924587.cms">EXCLUSIVE: Tata Communications’ IoT head explains how COVID is driving the next wave of Internet of Things</a>

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