vampyr

Ok I am a huge buffy fan but would never watch twilight again or read the books because they go against everything a vampyr is supposed to be.

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"A vampyr is a dead body, which continues to live in the grave, which it leaves, however, by night, for the purpose of sucking the blood of the living, whereby it is nourished, and preserved in good condition, instead of becoming decomposed like other dead bodies."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

The bodies found in the so-called vampyr state are alive.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

The bodies disinterred and found in the so-called vampyr state, were then alive.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Arnod Paole, as he lay in his grave alive, in the so-called vampyr-state, may have drawn into communion the minds of other persons, who were thereupon the subjects of sensorial illusions of which he was the theme; -- that the mind of Joan of Arc may by possibility have been placed in relation with a higher mind, which foreknew her destiny, and in a parallel manner displayed it to her.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

In those days the belief in ghosts was absolute, and a vampyr was a sort of ghost.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Let us content ourselves for the present with a notion less monstrous, but still startling enough: That the bodies, which were found in the so-called vampyr state, instead of being in a new and mystical condition, were simply alive in the common way; that, in short, they were the bodies of persons who had been buried alive; and whose life was only extinguished by the ignorance and barbarity of those who disinterred them.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

It is the so-called vampyr state in the vampyr superstition.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

The only problem is a vampyr keeps picking them off each night.

"Child of an Ancient City" by Tad Williams Dark Worlds Club 2010

The only problem is a vampyr keeps picking them off each night.

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