Irish people often tell each other stories about giants who were able to create an island just by taking a handful of sand and throwing it out into the sea. Professor Márta Korbonits said that such old stories have some historical basis. And hard to believe, scientists have found what they’ve been looking for all along. As it turns out, there are many Irish people with the AIP gene mutation. These mutations are responsible for the excessive height in some people. In the UK, these mutations are very rare (probability about 1 in 2000 people), and in Mid Ulster – Northern Ireland, these mutations are becoming more common (1 in 150). One of the most famous giants in Ireland was Charles Byrne (1761-1783) when he was 2.2m tall. According to legend, giants are extremely powerful, but in reality, they are not. They often suffer from heart problems, eye problems, and joint pain. Without proper treatment, most of these giants die before the age of 30. 2. Werewolves There are very few origins of werewolf legends because their lives are always associated with the forest. However, people have found archaeological ruins and cave paintings of the combination of people and things from ancient times. At that time, people always wanted to become stronger. So, they chose for themselves a summoned beast and took this form. To go to the battlefield, the warriors choose a powerful summoned beast that is the wolf. Before fighting, they will drink magic potion that affects the nervous system making them think they are invincible wolves. In addition, belief in the existence of werewolves is supported by the genetic condition hypertonia. It is an abnormal amount of hair growth on the body and face, also known as werewolf syndrome. It was not until 1963 that Dr. Lee Illis gave the name of this disease. Another psychological disorder is called Lycanthropy. This is a delusion that makes the patient think that he can transform into a species between man and animal. It is also believed that this disorder becomes stronger during the different lunar phases. 3. Vampires Porphyria is a rare genetic disorder (1 in 200,000 people). If either parent has the condition, their child has a 25% chance of having it. This disease causes a pigment imbalance, and hemoglobin begins to decay by ultraviolet light. People with this disease are greatly affected by sunlight. So the only time they can go out is at night. In more severe cases, the patient’s tendon is deformed, causing the fingers to constrict. The skin around the lips and gums becomes dry, the front teeth protrude and turn red. So they will look like vampires. In the Middle Ages, people with porphyria were burned by the judgment of the Inquisition. 4. Dragons Theory of a connection between dinosaur bones and dragons began in Mongolia. Here, the word “dragon” is found associated with different geographical names. This is because, in some areas of the Gobi desert, anyone can find dinosaur bones because they lie completely on the surface of the Earth. These skeletons are still abundant in this place causing many illegal excavations to take place. It is an important fact that there are no myths of this kind in Africa because there is no access to dinosaur remnants there. But why do we picture dragons like reptiles with claws and scales? This is explained by the way we see things around us. Their skeletons resembled the bones of modern lizards, snakes, and crocodiles. If you zoom in a few times these animals, they will look like dragons. Also added that lizards and snakes sometimes have two heads, like some dragons in fantasy or legend.

Sunomata Castle (Gifu, Japan): Also known as Ichiya, meaning “castle built in one night”, Sunomata was built in the mid-16th century by General Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the city of Ogaki. Legend has it that this is a stronghold that was silently built in the heart of the opponent, by pre-hewing columns and pre-built walls, then moved to assemble in the night. The current castle was reconstructed in 1991, modeled after the nearby Ogaki Castle. Image: Hide-sp. Bran Castle (Transylvania, Romania): This castle is often associated with Dracula. Vlad III, prince of Wallachia – aka Vlad III Dracula – is considered the prototype for the character of the vampire count in Bram Stoker’s classic novel. According to legend, the real Vlad the Third was briefly imprisoned in Bran Castle in 1462. Fans of the character flocked here to tour the legendary castle. Image: Archeotraveller. Tower of London (London, England): One of England’s most famous castles, the Tower of London – with the White Tower at its center – has a dark history, revolving around prison, torture and death. Convicted people are locked up here and subject to terrible punishment. The shady beheadings and murders taking place here make the castle become an obsession. By the 19th century, this place ended its role and opened to visitors. Image: History. Neuschwanstein Castle (Schwangau, Germany): This place was built in 1869 by Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, as a private retreat. Despite having no real power, Ludwig II maintained a romantic view of a king. He dreamed of living in seclusion in a large castle on top of a mountain, surrounded by art and architecture. That’s why Neuschwanstein was built. In 1886, the king mysteriously drowned, before the castle was completed and admired by millions. In it, Walt Disney liked this place so much that many people believe that he created the castle “Sleeping Beauty” at Disneyland according to its architecture. Image: Wonderful Engineering. Alnwick Castle (Northumberland, England): This place is more famous for being the setting for Hogwarts Castle in the two Harry Potter films. This ancient and massive castle has also appeared in many other hit movies, from Elizabeth to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Image: Englishcoast. Jal Mahal (Jaipur, India): Located in the middle of Man Sagar Lake, Jal Mahal is like a real fairy tale. In the evening or moonlit nights, the splendid white castle reflects on the water, creating a surreal scene for the guests staying here. Interestingly, below this palace there are also 4 secret floors, equally beautiful as the architectural wonder above. Image: Pinterest. Mont Saint Michel (Normandy, France): Located on an island off the coast of Normandy, this castle attracts more than 3 million visitors a year. At high tide, the entire surrounding area is flooded, creating a magical and unique scene. Image: Big Seven Travel.

Australia is always hot, because many tourists see at Christmas people wear bikinis to swim in the sea. But the truth is not so. Sydney Beach on a Christmas Day. Because it’s in the southern hemisphere, winter in Australia is summer in many other countries. Photo: AAP “Many tourists still think that Romania has vampires. Perhaps they are obsessed with the famous novel about Dracula. In fact, in 700 years, we have not seen a single vampire,” a Romanian citizen shared. “Kenyans are all track and field athletes, live in tents, don’t speak English and keep wild animals as pets,” is a misconception that foreigners have about this African country, according to the Kwnet account. “Finland does not exist. God,” shared Lawwi’s account. “I am from Serbia but people keep thinking that it is part of Russia. They are mistaken for Siberia,” said one tourist. Many people have been confused between two lands: Serbia (a country in the Balkans and Siberia (a large land of Russia, approximately the size of Canada). When someone introduced them to being from Belgium, a lot of people assumed they could speak French. In fact, the main languages ​​in Belgium are Dutch, French and German. Many tourists often confuse different European countries as one. For example, they often mistake Switzerland/Sweden, Belgium/Belarus or Slovakia/Slovenia. “Many people think Greece is just beaches and islands, and summer. But we also have beautiful places to visit in winter, like the mountains. And we also have land,” explained one Greek resident. Referring to England, many people think that they are guests who like to drink afternoon tea and love football. In fact, not all British people have this passion. “When I say I’m from Brazil, everyone thinks I know how to dance samba and am passionate about football. And Rio de Janeiro is the capital. But all three are wrong.” Many visitors mistakenly think that Canadians all drink maple syrup, there are a lot of elk and “sorry” is everyone’s catchphrase. According to Bright Side/VNE

The laboratory where Frankenstein’s monster was born in the movie released in 1931. Photo: Universal Studios Licensing LLC. On a stormy, rainy night, the mad scientist is trying to revive an inanimate monster he created by piecing together parts of an exhumed corpse. After receiving a high-voltage electric shock, it suddenly moved its long, bony fingers and raised one arm. “It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive!” shouted the doctor. It was a memorable scene in the Universal Pictures film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) (first published 1818), starring Mary Shelley. by Vladimir Karloff as the monster. The work became a blockbuster at the box office when it hit the public’s taste for horror cinema, and paved the way for Universal to release a series of iconic monster movies later, including The Mummy (Mummy), Dracula (Vampire), Creature from the Back Lagoon (Creature from the Black Lagoon), … Whether emerging from the swamp, lying in an Egyptian stone coffin or patched up like Frankenstein, … all these monsters are the product of fascination (and sometimes even fear). ) of the community towards science. More than just the creative work of the design and makeup team, the knowledge (which may still be limited) about amphibians, mummification, anatomy … has been borrowed to bring to mind. aghast. Frankenstein movie poster. Photo: Universal Studios Licensing LLC. Shelley was only 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein while on vacation in Lake Geneva. A special lover of science, she often attends lectures to keep up to date with new trends and research, including the relatively new field of electrophysiology. She was very interested in the work of 18th-century Italian scientist Luigi Galvani, whose initial experiments showed that electric currents could cause (dead) frog legs to twitch, and then used it as inspiration for Dr. Frankenstein. It was also during this period that scientists began to learn about the nature of resuscitation techniques—sometimes bringing back a person thought to have drowned by manipulating air into their trachea and squeezing their abdomen. Shelly’s own mother had experienced such an emergency when she jumped off the Putney Bridge on the Thames, two years before she was born. More than a century later, Universal adapted her novel into a Frankenstein movie, and then released another monster classic: The Mummy (1932) – also starring Boris Karloff as the monk Imhotep, a master of mummification; The film tells the story of a soul punished by being buried alive and accidentally released to return to earth to cause chaos. Before that, in 1922, a team led by British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the tomb of the famous King Tutankhamun, which has remained a mystery for 3,000 years. The event ignited the curiosity and imagination of millions around the world, and sparked a passion for ancient Egypt – decades after the original release of The Mummy. “Monsters have always been a mixture of conscious and unconscious fear.” – Leo Braudy, author of Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds , Witches, Vampires, Mummy and other monsters of the Natural and Supernatural worlds) commented. For example, the fear of vampire bites in the movie Dracula (released in 1931) was based on Bram Stoker’s medieval horror novel (published 1897) and the play Dracula ( performed in 1924) by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Vampire legends existed for hundreds of years before Stoker published the novel, but researchers believe it was deadly mid-19th-century epidemics like cholera and tuberculosis that inspired and spread vampire myths. “In the absence of science, vampire theory is easy to accept. If someone gets TB and spreads it to other family members, they’ll blame the vampires instead of the bacteria.” — Sarah Crawford, longtime curator at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles , identify. In the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon (released in 1954), designer Milicent Patrick did a lot of research on prehistoric animals and sea creatures to shape the vision for the character “Gill-Man”. She is especially fascinated by the illustrations of reptiles and amphibians that lived about 400 million years ago on Earth. Director Jack Arnold drew inspiration for Gill-Man from the story of the long-extinct coelacanth and thought to be the ancestor of land animals, with unusual fins (which look like like limbs) allowing it to crawl from the ocean to the land. The connection between the sea and land animals, along with the story that the producer heard at a dinner party about a half-human, half-fish creature living in the Amazon River, … all have been brought into creation by Patrick. Figure. Designer Milicent Patrick sketched the sea monster Gill-Man in Creature from the Back Lagoon. Photo: Universal Studios Licensing LLC. Science has not only inspired characters on screen, but has also led to technical experiments and inventions in the field of filmmaking. While staging Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, designer Kenneth Strickfaden – who spent many years as an electrician – devised techniques to simulate ball lightning and electrical discharges. And artist Jack Pierce – the head of Universal’s makeup department – spent eight hours with Karloff on The Mummy, using a mixture made of fuller’s earth and more than 150 feet of ice. gauze. It was the science behind Hollywood’s iconic monsters that made the movies of this golden age even more “horrifying”. In terms of perception, perhaps most viewers know those creatures do not exist. But the thrill and excitement of watching the dramas on the screen made them think, What if they really existed? “Horror movies have been continuously produced, more than any other genre. Because they (monsters and horror things) are, to a certain extent, born within our selves, and as such can never fail,” Braudy said.

Bran Castle. Photo: AP The AP news agency (USA) reported that a COVID-19 vaccination center has been set up at Bran Castle in the Transylvania region. This castle is the site where Irish writer Bram Stoker inspired Dracula’s “vampire’s home” in the 19th century horror novel “Dracula”. Accordingly, every weekend of May will take place the “vaccine marathon” program at Bran Castle. People who come for injections do not need to book an appointment. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine recipients will receive free admission to the castle’s torture chamber, home to 52 medieval torture instruments. At the end of the first week of May, nearly 400 people went to Bran Castle for a COVID-19 vaccine. However, there is a rule that only Romanian people can get the COVID-19 vaccine for free. The program at Bran Castle is part of a series of initiatives by the Romanian government to promote the COVID-19 vaccine campaign in this country of 19 million people. The Romanian government hopes to be able to vaccinate 5 million people by June 1. From May 8, all vaccination centers in Romania apply the rule that no reservations are made after 2pm. According to the statistics of worldometers.info, as of 9 am on May 11, the total number of COVID-19 infections in Romania is over 1 million cases, of which 29,034 have died.

Every weekend in May, a special vaccination event is held just outside Bran Castle. People wishing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can attend without an appointment. This is part of Romania’s vaccination campaign. A COVID-19 vaccination center has been established at Bran Castle in Transylvania. (Photo: AP) Anyone who attended the event was given the Pfizer vaccine and received a “vaccination diploma” as a souvenir, illustrated by an image of a canine medical worker brandishing a syringe. In addition, the torture chambers containing a collection of 52 medieval torture instruments at Bran Castle are also open to the public free of charge. In the first days of the campaign, the medical staff at the “blood-sucking demon castle” vaccinated nearly 400 people. The castle also receives a large number of requests from foreigners wanting to experience COVID-19 vaccinations in the spooky rooms. However, this campaign is only for the people of Romania. In parallel with the Dracula castle campaign, the Romanian government also issued a series of other initiatives to promote vaccination of more than 19 million people. Romania’s goal is to vaccinate 5 million people against COVID-19 by June 1, the first step to bringing the country “back to normal”. On May 8, Bran Castle opened its first special vaccination event. Similar events have also been kicked off in several cities across Romania. Since the COVID-19 pandemic appeared, Romania has recorded a total of 1,066,731 infections, including 29,034 deaths.