The earliest accounts of vampires date back to ancient Sumerian and Babylonian myths from around 4000 BC. From there, the stories spread around the world. Early Slavic societies believed that a bat flying over an unburied corpse could reanimate the recently deceased into a vampire. This is often cited as the original bat-vampire link. 

Show off your spooky side year round in this 3-tiered bat ring featuring a band of black stones under a crescent moon.