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The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
The 1986 French video game Vampire was one of the first video games to feature vampires, along with the similar 1986 Spanish game Vampire. [18] One of the earliest video games featuring a vampire as the antagonist is The Count, a 1979 text adventure for various platforms, in which local villagers send the player to defeat Count Dracula. [19]
Jure Grando (Croatia) first real person described as a vampire in historical records Ghoul (Arabic lore) – "The Arabic stories of the ghole spread east and were adopted by the people of the Orient, where it evolved as a type of vampiric spirit called a ghoul."
There are two main vampire-like creatures in the Philippines: the Tagalog Mandurugo ('blood-sucker') and the Visayan manananggal ('self-segmenter'). The mandurugo is a variety of the aswang that takes the form of an attractive girl by day, and develops wings and a long, hollow, thread-like tongue by night. They use an elongated proboscis-like ...
Sonya Karp (Vampire Academy) Sophia Keren (So I'm a Spider, So What?) Sophie-Anne Leclerq (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) Sorin Markov (Zendikar: In the Teeth of Akoum) Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) Spade (Night Huntress series) Stefan (Twilight series) Stefan Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries) Stevie Rae Johnson (House of Night series)
There are several types of vampire lifestylers: [1] " Sanguinarians": (sometimes referred to as hematophages) consume the blood of others [1] "Psychic vampires": claim to attain nourishment from the aura or pranic energy of others [1] [6] [7] in order to balance a spiritual or psychological energy deficiency, such as a damaged aura or chakra [3]
From these deep beliefs pertaining to death and the soul derives the invention of the Slavic concept of Ubır. A vampire is the manifestation of an unclean spirit possessing a decomposing body. This undead creature needs the blood of the living to sustain its body's existence and is considered to be vengeful and jealous towards the living.
A strzyga is a usually female demon similar to vampire in Slavic (and especially Polish) folklore. People who were born with two hearts and two souls, and two sets of teeth (the second one barely visible) were believed to be strzygi. [6] [2] Somnambulics or people without armpit hair could also be seen as ones. [9]