This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730
A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death
A person with the medical condition colloquially known as vampirism with effects such as photosensitivity, a desire for blood, and increased night vision
The hollywood ideal of a blood-sucking creeper The term has gone too far away from its old meaning to be useful to describe what I am So, I am not a vampire, I am a sanguinarian I do use it on the pages if I am including psi-vamps
They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored
A vampire is a creature in legends and horror stories. Vampires are said to come out of graves at night and suck the blood of living people. in stories, a dead person that sucks people's blood by biting their necks (vampir, from , perhaps from uber ). In popular legend, a bloodsucking creature that rises from its burial place at night, sometimes in the form of a bat, to drink the blood of humans. By daybreak it must return to its grave or to a coffin filled with its native earth. Tales of vampires are part of the world's folklore, most notably in Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula. The disinterment in Serbia in 1725 and 1732 of several fluid-filled corpses that villagers claimed were behind a plague of vampirism led to widespread interest and imaginative treatment of vampirism throughout western Europe. Vampires are supposedly dead humans (originally suicides, heretics, or criminals) who maintain a kind of life by biting the necks of living humans and sucking their blood; their victims also become vampires after death. These "undead" creatures cast no shadow and are not reflected in mirrors. They can be warded off by crucifixes or wreaths of garlic and can be killed by exposure to the sun or by an oak stake driven through the heart. The most famous vampire is Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897)
These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals
These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep
A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people
Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V
Demonic creatures who live off the blood of humans; a vampire appears to be a normal person until the feed is upon them -- only then do they reveal their true demonic visage
Immortal, soulless demon forced to drink blood to stay alive They have long canines with which they can puncture a human neck to extract blood They can also make other vampires by drinking the human's blood and forcing the human to drink their blood They are very strong
The vampire is an 'undead' being who gains energy by sucking the blood from living victims A bite from a vampire causes the victim in turn to become 'undead' Count Dracula is undoubtedly the most famous vampire, created by writer Bram Stoker in 1897 The novel was based on a real fifteenth century Transylvanian Count, Vlad the Impaler, who was known for his hobby of watching his prisoners die a slow and torturous death impaled on high poles Deaths caused by suicides in some Eastern European countries were treated with great suspicion up until the beginning of this century Victims were buried at crossroads and their graves were covered in crosses, which represented knots, to stop them 'walking' from their graves
{i} legendary creature believed to be a rejuvenated corpse who sucks people's blood at night; extortionist, one who exploits others (especially a woman who uses seduction to manipulate others); vampire bat, bat that feeds on blood