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Vampire

A vampire is a mythical creature with a human-like appearance that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally, the blood) of humans. 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. They wore shrouds and were…

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In modern culture

Lord RuthvenAntiheroPenny dreadfulsVarney the VampireCount Orlok
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Etymology and word distribution

EtymologySerbianOltenianExhumingEnglish
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Folk beliefs

MesopotamiansHebrewsAncient GreeksManipuriRomans
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Origins of vampire beliefs

Premature burialPsychoanalystErnest JonesDefence mechanismsProject
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Vampire

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Vampire

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related to Film and television · 51
Vampire → Abraham Van Helsing, African Count, BBC's Count Dracula, Blacula, Both Lugosi's, By, Béla Lugosi, Carmilla, Children, Christopher Lee, Congress, Considered, Coppola, Count, Count Yorga, Dracula, Dracula's, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Finlay, French
related to Literature · 36
Vampire → Ballad, Byron, Byron's, Christabel, Corinth, Destroyer, Die Braut, Fragment, Glenarvon, Goethe, Gothic, Gottfried August Bürger, Heinrich August Ossenfelder, Irvyne, Johann Wolfgang, John Polidori, John Stagg's, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lenore, Lord Byron's The Giaour
related to Medieval and later European folklore · 31
Vampire → Abi Zimra, As, British, Christ's, Christian, Christian Churches, Christianity, Christians, David, English, Europe, For, Greece, He, His, In, Jesus, Jewish, Just, Many
related to Ancient beliefs · 20
Vampire → According, Almost, An, Ancient Babylonia, Assyria, Baitāl Pacīsī, Blood, God, Hebrew, In India, Kathāsaritsāgara, King Vikramāditya, Lilith, Lilitu, Lilu, Piśāca, Sefer Hasidim, Tales, The, The Persians
related to In modern culture · 16
Vampire → Bram Stoker, Count Dracula, Count Orlok, Dracula, Hamilton Deane, Implied, John Polidori's, Lord Ruthven, Lord Ruthven's, Much, Murnau's Nosferatu, Over, Such, The, The Vampyre, Varney
related to Modern beliefs · 15
Vampire → Allegations, Amateur, Birmingham, England, Fears, Governor Eric Chiwaya, Highgate Cemetery, Highgate Vampire, In, In January, Local, London, Malawi, Sean Manchester, Several
related to Psychodynamic theories · 13
Vampire → Desiring, Emotions, Ernest Jones, From, In, Jones, Nightmare, On, Sigmund Freud, Some, The, This, Welsh
related to Political interpretations · 12
Vampire → Count Dracula, Dictionnaire, In, Jonathan Harker, Karl Marx, Nosferatu, The, These, Vampires, Vampyre, Voltaire, Werner Herzog
related to Tabletop and video games · 12
Vampire → Bram Stoker, Castlevania, Curse, Dracula, Dragons, Dungeons, Kain, Legacy, Popular, Strahd, The, The Masquerade
related to Folk beliefs · 11
Vampire → Ancient Greeks, Belief, Cultures, Despite, Europe, Hebrews, In, Manipuri, Mesopotamians, Romans, The

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vampires blood also dracula folklore people vampiric europe first body belief death modern film century many night vampirism may corpse

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Vampireis amythical creature with a human-like appearance that subsists by feeding on the vital essence0.90text
the Mesopotamiansinstance ofCultures0.80text
Hebrewsinstance ofCultures0.80text
Ancient Greeksinstance ofCultures0.80text
Manipuriinstance ofCultures0.80text
Romans had tales of demonsinstance ofCultures0.80text
spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampiresinstance ofCultures0.80text
firemeninstance ofrumors circulated to the effect that employees of the state0.80text
nurses were vampiresinstance ofrumors circulated to the effect that employees of the state0.80text
known in Swahili as wazimamoto.AmericasThe rougarou is an example of how a vampire belief can result from a combination of beliefsinstance ofrumors circulated to the effect that employees of the state0.80text
here a mixture of Frenchinstance ofrumors circulated to the effect that employees of the state0.80text
African Vodu or voodooinstance ofrumors circulated to the effect that employees of the state0.80text

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