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Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology. McFarland. ISBN 9780786444526. Spence, Lewis (1960) An Encyclopaedia of Occultism University Books Inc. New Hyde Park, New York; The Vampire Watchers Handbook by "Constantine Gregory" and Craig Glenday, 2003 St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 62–63
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.
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 ...
This is a list of vampires found in literary fiction; film and television; comics and manga; video games and board games; musical theatre, opera and theatre; and originating in folklore or mythology. It does not include the concept of dhampirs .
The television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created and largely written by Joss Whedon, also explored vampire folklore in the light of postmodern and feminist theory, defining the 'condition' as humans who were made to drink vampire blood after the vampire drinks from them, with turned vampires being essentially demons possessing human ...
It is commonly thought that Gerard introduced the word into print in an 1885 magazine article, "Transylvanian Superstitions", [2] and in her travelogue The Land Beyond the Forest [3] ("Transylvania" is Latin for "beyond the forest", literally "across/through the forest"). She merely refers to "Nosferatu" as the Romanian word for vampire: [4]
It is the corrupt form of the West Slavic word volkodlak (Russian: волкодлак), meaning literally 'wolf-fur' or 'wolf-hide', denoting someone "wearing" a wolf's skin, a werewolf. [3] Other sources suggest that Pushkin borrowed and adapted the word from Lord Byron 's " The Giaour ", which contains a footnote claiming that the Greek word ...
Penanggalan – A vampire akin to Manananggal from the Malay peninsula; Leyak – Similar creature from Balinese mythology; Philippine mythology; Soucouyant – a Caribbean blood-sucking hag; Tiyanak – Blood-sucking creature in a form of a baby that turns into what is known to be the child of the devil