VAMPIRE

a superstition of Eastern origin, existing among the Slavonic and other races on the Lower Danube. It is a ghost po e ing a human body, which leaves its grave at night and sucks the blood of living persons, especially the young and healthy. Dead wizards, heretics, and other outcasts become vampires, as does any one killed by a vampire. On VASE the discovery of a vampire’s grave the corpse must be disinterred, thrust through with a white-thorn stake and burned.