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Definition of Vampire

Vampire A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker. Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. Related Definitions: About, Also, American, An, And, Any, Appendage, Are, As, Asleep, Believed, Belonging, Blood, Bloodsucker, But, By, Caecal, Called, Cattle, Causing, Chiefly, Come, Current, Cutting, Dead, Death, Destitute, During, Eastern, Either, Especially, Extortioner, False, Feed, Fig, Formerly, From, Fruit, Genera, Genus, Ghost, Gorge, Grave, Harmless, Have, Hungary, In, Is, Lives, Make, Man, Molar, More, Night, Now, Of, On, One, Or, Other, Person, Prevalent, Preying, Punctured, Several, Sharp, Sleep, Soul, South, Species, Spectrum, Stomach, Stored, Strong, Suck, Sucking, Superstition, Supposed, Teeth, The, Their, Themselves, These, They, This, Thus, To, Tropical, Two, Upon, Vampire, Wander, Was, Well, Were, Which, Who, With, Year

Vampire Quotations When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. Angelina Jolie The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. Octavia Butler I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video. Catherine Deneuve The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. Anne Rice

Vampire Translations vampire in German is Vampir vampire in Latin is lamia vampire in Spanish is vampiro

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