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Definitions of vampire in various dictionaries:
noun - (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people.
A person, such as an extortionist, who preys upon others.
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| In an opera based on a Polidori story, Lord Ruthven is really one of these bloodsuckers |
| Count yourself lucky to know that one of these monsters drinks your blood & can turn into a bat |
| A person who preys ruthlessly upon others, or Anne Rice's Lestat |
| Bat man(7) |
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A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. * Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures; the term vampire was popularised in Western Europe after reports of an 18th century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. * In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, |