Definition for Vampire according
to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
1913 Edition
Vampire (Page: 1593)
Vam"pire
(?), n. [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian
vampir.] [Written also vampyre.]
1. 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.
The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards,
witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a
violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or
by the church, Encyc. Brit.
2. Fig.: One who lives
by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
3. (Zoöl.) 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.
4. (Zoöl.) 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. Vampire bat (Zoöl.), a vampire, 3. {--
illustr. Head of False
Vampire. (Vampyrus spectrum) --}
The legend of the vampire can be traced to approximatly 125 AD,
where a Upir, a creature with vampire qualities, occured in Greek
mythology. The word Upir is found for the first time in written
form in 1047 in a letter to a Russian prince. Upir later became
vampire, and some of the early legends came from the far east.
Much has been lost throughout histoty...
Vampires are similar to man in respect that no two are alike. No
two men have the same physical abbilities, or the same senses of
hearing or sight. This is true of vampires as well. As there are
several races of man, there are also many races of vampire.
Each race of vampire share similar, although not identical,
abbilities. Each race of vampire have different origins, unlike man.
An example of one race is the Kindred, as portrayed by White
Wolf. The Kindred are then further subdivided into "clans." Other
examples include the Carpathian race, of which Count Dracula, or
Vlad Tsepesh (or Tepes), was decended from.
(Borrowed from www.thekindred.com)
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