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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 ...
The living vampire is in general the illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons, but even a flawless pedigree will not ensure anyone against the intrusion of a vampire into his family vault, since every person killed by a nosferatu becomes likewise a vampire after death, and will continue to suck the blood of other innocent people till ...
A moroi (sometimes moroii in modern fiction; pl. moroi) is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore.A female moroi is called a moroaică (pl. moroaice).In some versions, a moroi is a phantom of a dead person which leaves the grave to draw energy from the living.
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 ...
Strigòi is a Romanian word that originated from a root related to the Latin terms strix or striga with the addition of the augmentative suffix "-oi" (feminine "-oaică"). [3] [4] Otila Hedeşan notes that the same augmentative suffix appears in the related terms moroi and bosorcoi (borrowed from Hungarian boszorka) and considers this parallel derivation to indicate membership in the same ...
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.
Logan and Daley South, the king and queen of the Vampire Court of Austin, both realized they were vampires when they were about 15. Real-life vampire couple corrects myths about ‘blood-suckers ...
The Melrose Vampire – Melrose Abby, Scotland; Melusine – France; The Mikonos Vampire – Greece 1702; Mmbyu – India also spelled or an early form of: Pocu Pati; Moroi - Romania; Mosquito Man - Native American, Pacific; Northwest Moskitto - North America; Mullo – Romani the plural being Mulé, with the following spelling variation: Mullo ...