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 stunning ring featuring a black oval center stone surrounded by twin bats.