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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.
Get your turtlenecks ready, it's time to talk vampires. If you're fascinated by creatures of the night, the kind that prey on human blood, you aren't alone.From dressing up in vampire costumes on ...
Tales of the undead consuming the blood or flesh of living beings have been found in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. [3] Today these entities are predominantly known as vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood; even the devil was ...
Vampires. This list covers the many types of vampires, vampire-like legendary creatures of global folklore or people that were supposedly vampires. It does not include any vampire that originates in a work of fiction
Burning the exhumed body of a person believed to be a vampire – Vampire, aut. R. de Moraine, 1864 Fight with an upiór – Maciej Sieńczyk Upiór (Tatar language: Убыр (Ubır), Turkish: Ubır, Obur, Obır, (modern Belarusian: вупыр (vupyr), Bulgarian: въпир (văpir), Serbian: вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak: upír, Polish: upiór, wupi, Russian: упырь (upyr ...
Shadowrun features vampires whose existence is explained by a resurgence of the Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus. As such, the afflicted are not undead, but instead are still alive but radically changed by the retrovirus. They normally do not suffer from the supernatural limitations such as crosses, but still are vulnerable to sunlight.
Like others vampires in fiction, Knight is immortal, he does not physically age beyond the point of his vampire transformation nor is he vulnerable to the effects of old age or natural death, but can be killed by exposure to sunlight, having a wooden stake driven through his heart, fire, or decapitation.
The penanggalan or penanggal is a nocturnal vampiric entity from Malay ghost myths.It takes the form of a floating disembodied woman's head, with its organs and entrails trailing from its neck.