Vampire
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Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. Thesebats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cuttingincisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suckthe blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man,chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, inwhich the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
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1: One whom drinks the blood of others, be it animal or human. Not to be confused with cannibalism or sarcophagy as no tissue is consumed.
2: Term describing Vlad Tapish, or Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476) and Erzebet (Elizabeth) Bathory (1560 -1614), the Bloody Countess of Csejthe: both notable historicaly for the consumption of blood. [Dracula] is a name based off the Order of the Dragon, or Order of Dracul, which Bram Stoker used as his vampiric character based loosely on Vlad the Impaler.
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