Vlad: The Historical Evidence for Vampires
July, 2012
Apprentice Kathy
Is there circumstantial evidence for Vampires? Stories and legends are not proof for this researcher. Is there evidence found in current history books that Vampires had existed in Europe where Vampire lore says they are to be found? The following images will present a powerful case that a veil of secrecy that has descended over Transylvania and Wallachia, the home of Vlad. Has the powerful Vampire cabal paid off, intimidated or threatened academia so that this knowledge remains hidden from the public?
Vlad condemning Christ, 33 A.D. Is this accurate?
historical maps: 200 ad to 1900 ad
The year 200
Rome has overtaken Wallachia.
Rome has overtaken Wallachia.
The year 300
Rome has been ousted from Wallachia.
Vlad has defeated the Roman Empire.
Rome has been ousted from Wallachia.
Vlad has defeated the Roman Empire.
The year 400
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
The year 500
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
The year 600
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
The year 700
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
Not much is know of the region where Vlad rules.
The year 800
The Bulgars avoid Vlad.
The Bulgars avoid Vlad.
The year 900
The Bulgars continue to avoid Vlad, but move south and west.
The Bulgars continue to avoid Vlad, but move south and west.
The year 1000
The Bulgarians and Hungarians avoid Vlad.
The year 1100
The first appearance of the Vlachs.
The eastern Empire avoids Vlad.
The first appearance of the Vlachs.
The eastern Empire avoids Vlad.
The year 1200
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
The year 1300
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
The year 1400
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
Little is known about the area Vlad rules.
The year 1500
Wallachia appears and has a ruler (ban).
Wallachia appears and has a ruler (ban).
The year 1600
Wallachia has a prince. Who is the power behind the throne?
Wallachia has a prince. Who is the power behind the throne?
The year 1700
The Ottoman Empire has expanded west and east of Wallachia.
The Ottomans are avoiding Vlad.
The Ottoman Empire has expanded west and east of Wallachia.
The Ottomans are avoiding Vlad.
The year 1800
The Hungary has absorbed Transylvania, but leaves Walachia intact.
The Hungary has absorbed Transylvania, but leaves Walachia intact.
The year 1900
Does Vlad go into hiding?
Does Vlad go into hiding?
The above images confirm the knowledge in academia, especially historical circles, of Vampires, or the chief vampire, and their powerful cabal. While historians talk about Western European history, they don't want you know the truth about Eastern Europe.
Until Bram Stoker published his vampire story, Vlad had free reign and the historians had no concerns about Vampires being exposed to the bright light of day. Clearly, by 1900 Vlad has gone into hiding. There is no doubt of an express arrangement between the powerful Vampire cabal and academia.
The agreement is this-you don't write about us and we won't exsanguinate you. Those egg head professors like big words.
Clearly, the powerful Vampire cabal has started to influence Hollywood. Only in the last two decades have vampires lost their bloodthirsty image to transform into brooding, romantic figures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight saga are leading the way for people to accept Vampires as normal people, just different than we are.
For over 2,100 years Wallachia was independent. It was unconquered by Alexander, the Romans or the Ottomans.
Alexander did not venture into to Europe, but instead chose India for his conquest.
The Roman Empire ranged from Britain to the Middle East, but left Vlad alone.
The Ottomans also ruled the Middle East, the Balkans and threatened Vienna, but Vlad was left unmolested.
Being isolated in eastern Europe, Vlad's secret was safe until very recently.
However as the world at large learned about Vlad in the 19th century, he went into seclusion.
There is no doubt in this researcher's mind that when the errors of Modernism are exposed, Vlad will reemerge to become and future ruler of his beloved land, Wallachia.
I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but when presented with evidence like this, I wonder why have historians not written about this unconquered land and exposed the evils of Vampirism? Historians will spend a lifetime collecting and commenting on the intrigues of Duchies, Kingdoms and Papal States that span centuries in Italy, but nothing about this constant presence in the Balkans that can ward off powerful enemies?
This is a massive cover up spanning millennia and I, for one, am glad to have exposed verifiable proof of Vampirism to the world.
Until Bram Stoker published his vampire story, Vlad had free reign and the historians had no concerns about Vampires being exposed to the bright light of day. Clearly, by 1900 Vlad has gone into hiding. There is no doubt of an express arrangement between the powerful Vampire cabal and academia.
The agreement is this-you don't write about us and we won't exsanguinate you. Those egg head professors like big words.
Clearly, the powerful Vampire cabal has started to influence Hollywood. Only in the last two decades have vampires lost their bloodthirsty image to transform into brooding, romantic figures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight saga are leading the way for people to accept Vampires as normal people, just different than we are.
For over 2,100 years Wallachia was independent. It was unconquered by Alexander, the Romans or the Ottomans.
Alexander did not venture into to Europe, but instead chose India for his conquest.
The Roman Empire ranged from Britain to the Middle East, but left Vlad alone.
The Ottomans also ruled the Middle East, the Balkans and threatened Vienna, but Vlad was left unmolested.
Being isolated in eastern Europe, Vlad's secret was safe until very recently.
However as the world at large learned about Vlad in the 19th century, he went into seclusion.
There is no doubt in this researcher's mind that when the errors of Modernism are exposed, Vlad will reemerge to become and future ruler of his beloved land, Wallachia.
I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but when presented with evidence like this, I wonder why have historians not written about this unconquered land and exposed the evils of Vampirism? Historians will spend a lifetime collecting and commenting on the intrigues of Duchies, Kingdoms and Papal States that span centuries in Italy, but nothing about this constant presence in the Balkans that can ward off powerful enemies?
This is a massive cover up spanning millennia and I, for one, am glad to have exposed verifiable proof of Vampirism to the world.
addendum
July 25, 2015
July 25, 2015
It seems that this cover up of vampires and their nefarious activities is not limited to historians. The venerable Oxford English Dictionary has succumbed to worldly influences and philologists are are also aiding this conspiracy. Select commentary are in bold.
Etymology:
< French vampire,
< Magyar vampir, a word of Slavonic origin occurring in the same form in Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Bulgarian, with such variants as Bulgarian vapir, vepir, Ruthenian vepyr, vopyr, opyr, Russian upir, upyr, Polish upior; Miklosich suggests north Turkish uber witch, as a possible source. Compare German vampir, vampyr, Danish, Swedish vampyr, Dutch vampir, Italian vampiro, Spanish vampiro, Portuguese vampiro, modern Latin vampyrus.
1. A preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons; a man or woman abnormally endowed with similar habits.
α.
1745 J. Swinton Trav. Three English Gent. in Harleian Misc. IV. 358
These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them.
We note the "supposed" nature of vampires, as if it is not a fact.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 66
From a meal he advances to a surfeit, and at last sucks blood like a vampyre.
1819 J. W. Polidori Vampyre p. xx,
He had been tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave.
Only is 1819, is there a reference of how to rid one of a vampires evil-by eating dirt. No stake needed. Disinformation.
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia iv. 71
Speedy death was the inevitable consequence of such a visitation, and any one who so died became himself a vampyre.
β.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 182
The accounts we have of the Vampires of Hungary are most incredible. They are Blood-suckers, that come out of their graves to torment the living.
The accounts of vampires in Hungary-more disinformation.
1813 Byron Giaour 24 (note)
The freshness of the face, and the wetness of the lip with blood, are the never-failing signs of a Vampire.
1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages I. ix. 301
Walter Mapes..gives some curious stories of English vampires in the twelfth century.
A references to 12th century vampires, but where are earlier citations? More evidence for a vast conspiracy.
1886 Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 55
We would welcome a spectre, a ghoul, or even a vampire gladly, rather than meet [Stevenson's] Mr. Edward Hyde.
2. transf.
a. A person of a malignant and loathsome character, esp. one who preys ruthlessly upon others; a vile and cruel exactor or extortioner. spec. = vamp n.4
1741 C. Forman Some Queries & Observ. Revol. in 1688 11
These are the vampires of the publick, and riflers of the kingdom.
1814 H. Shelley Let. 20 Nov. in Shelley Lett. (1964) I. 421 i. 992
In short, the man I once loved is dead. This is a vampire. His character is blasted for ever.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 174
There appeared to be no prospect of shaking off the vampires that had fastened themselves on the princes of Rajputana.
Documentation of Indian vampires.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 164
The vampires who supplied them with liquor had somehow obtained a claim upon all their wages.
Vampires supply alcohol- no wonder American Prohibition was ended. No doubt the Mafia and Vampires are conspiring.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 170
You lie, you vampire, you lie.
1918 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 20 Apr. 4 (caption)
Theda Bara... Vampire of the Screen.
1919 Honey Pot 1 42
Miss Maitland was a ‘vampire’ of an entirely new type.
Vampires are evolving- "an entirely new type."
1920 C. D. Fox Who's Who on Screen 301
Louise Glaum, who is credited with having given to the screen one of the most perfect vampire characterizations, was born near Baltimore.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 165
Made whores fascinating vampires instead of poor, stupid, diseased slobs they really are.
1968 Word Study Dec. 4/2
A vampire is a woman who uses sex to facilitate the acquisition of money or other signs of wealth.
1978 Ld. Birkenhead Rudyard Kipling vii. 99
A grim but authentic picture..of callow subalterns trotting beside the rickshaw wheels of faded provincial vampires.
b. slang. An intolerable bore or tedious person.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad III. ii. 215
In the German language there is no epithet which exactly translates our word ‘bore’, or its intensification, ‘vampyre’.
Supposed the German language has no word for vampire. Nosefaratu?
c. Applied to a mosquito.
1864 J. C. Geikie George Stanley iv. 61
A sharp prick and the little vampire is drinking your blood.
3. Zool.
a. One or other of various bats, chiefly South American, known or popularly believed to be blood-suckers.
α.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 143
An animal not so formidable, but still more mischievous than these, is the American Vampyre.
The first reference to American vampires.
1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Phys. Geogr. 55/1
The vampyres, or blood-sucking bats, nine species of which have been mentioned.
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross (1859) xvi. 168
My companion slew fifty-seven Vampyres in the few minutes.
A slayer kills 57 vampires in a few minutes.
β.
1780 W. Smellie tr. Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular V. 283
We shall call it Vampire, because it sucks the blood of men and other animals when asleep.
1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8711/2
The vampyrus, vampire, or Ternate bat, with large canine teeth.
c1820 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. (1825) iii. 154
The owls went away of their own accord... The bats and vampires remained with me.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25
My servant,..suddenly put his hand on the beast's withers, and secured the vampire.
It seems that vampires can be captured.
1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 299
The vampires are remarkable for the varied nature of their food.
b. The tarantula spider. rare—1.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xiii. 271
The deadly tarantula spider or ‘vampire’ of the prairies.
c. The devil-fish. rare—1.
1867 Chronicle 5 Oct. 669
This giant of the Cephaloptera is simply a monstrous Ray; and though Sea-Devil and Vampire are assigned to it as trivial names, it..is in no way formidable save from its enormous strength and bulk.
4. A double-leaved trap-door, closing by means of springs, used in theatres to effect a sudden disappearance from the stage.
1881 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy i. 17
Where's my vampire?
1886 Stage Gossip 69
A ‘vampire’ is a trap used by the sprites, and is cut in the ‘flats’, and often in the stage—the sprite falling bodily through the trap.
C1. attrib. and Comb.
a.
vampire bookseller n.
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 183
Vampyre booksellers drain him to the heart.
vampire corpse n.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 103
Thro' the vampire corpse He thrust his lance.
1819 J. W. Polidori Vampyre Introd. p. xxiii,
The vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza.
vampire-fanned adj.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 31
Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampire-fanned, when I carouse.
vampire legend n.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 69
Criticism applied to the Vampire legends by an anonymous writer.
vampire spell n.
1899 E. J. Chapman Snake-witch in Drama Two Lives 39
That unrest That held him with its vampire spell.
vampire story n.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 175
There is a whole literature of hideous vampire stories.
vampire superstition n.
1813 Byron Giaour 23 (note)
The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant.
The vampire "superstition" is still believed in eastern Europe.
vampire tinge n.
1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 42
A sort of yellowish-greenish, brownish grey—an unearthly vampire tinge.
vampire wing n.
1837 A. Tennent Vis. Glencoe 49
Some [of the devils] seem'd equipp'd with vampire wing.
b.
vampire winged adj.
1831 E. A. Poe Poems 64 Some tomb, which oft hath flung into black And vampyre-winged pannels back.
C2.
vampire bat n. = sense 3a.
1790 G. Shaw Speculum Linnæanum
The Vampyre Bat. Tailless Bat with the nose plain, and the flying-membrane divided between the thighs.
The first recording of a vampire bat.
1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 176
The vampyre bat, which will be found to live on vegetables.
Vampire bats live on vegetables-more disinformation. This time from the Royal Society.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25
The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers.
1871 B. Taylor tr. Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 176
Like vampire-bats, they're squeaking, twittering, humming.
vampire trap n. = sense 4.
1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship viii. 63
Down I went through the trap-door (it was what actors call a Vampire trap) before any one was aware of my intentions.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 4/2
All his disappearances are done by means of the ordinary pantomime ‘vampire’ trap.
vampire v. (trans.) to assail or prey upon after the manner of a vampire.
1832 J. Jekyll Let. 29 Nov. in Corr. (1894) ix. 306
Sotheby will not let poor Sir Walter lie quietly in his grave, but vampires him with verses that would disgrace even the annuals.
1905 B. Kennedy Green Sphinx xxi, \The only wealth of the world is the produce coming from the labour of Nature... And gold insolently vampires this produce.
It seems that vampires are proponents of the gold standard.
ˈvampiredom n. the state of being a vampire (sense 1); the acts of a vampire.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 653/3
The more obvious literary possibilities of vampiredom were thoroughly explored and exploited nearly forty years ago.
1972 Daily Tel. 12 May (Colour Suppl.) 56
There before the horrified gaze of the living was all the evidence of vampiredom—twisted position, torn shroud and blood.
Evidence of "vampiredom" or the reign of vampires as late as 1972.
vamˈpiric adj. of the nature of a vampire.
1853 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 Apr. (1965) I. 136
Such are the vampyric notions of reciprocity.
1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol ii. vi,
I'm not sure that you are not a ghost..of some uncomfortable vampiric order.
Like the Freemasons, vampires have degrees or orders.
1963 Listener 24 Jan. 165/2
She [sc. Marilyn Monroe] had all the physical equipment of the vamp, but the spirit of the girl next door... Marilyn was never truly vampiric on the screen, and she was never a ‘taker’ in life.
ˈvampirine adj. = vampiric adj.
1914 in D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 129
This is too much for Vanya; he explodes at the old vampirine humbug, and..dashes from the room.
1946 E. Blunden Shelley x. 135
Byron began and dropped a thriller which was becoming vampirine.
ˈvampirish adj. = vampiric adj.
1891 A. Lang Angling Sketches 57
The Highland fairies are very vampirish.
1929 Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 1/2
Among my own friends my reputation is notoriously the reverse of vampirish, money means nothing to me.
1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source v. viii. 300
Mother fastened vampirish eyes on her.
1981 N. Tucker Child & Book vii. 198
Religious references..to the Virgin Mary behaving in a way that is distinctly vampirish have been glossed over.
vamˈpirical adj.
1969 Daily Tel. 16 May 16/7
She contrives..in a vengeful after-life to play..vampirical havoc with passing warriors.
1990 Guardian Weekly 30 Sept. 25/2
The vampirical twosome whose teeth are sunk so deep into each other's necks that they daren't let go.
In the Modern Age, we read about a vampire twosome. Have they no shame?
vamˈpirically adv.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 July 752/1
Dark legions of the antichrist..vampirically sucking the blood from mankind.
The following are all the citations for vampire in chronological order. No more evidence is needed that philologists are on the vampire "payroll" than the first citation is from 1741, as if vampires are not recorded before that year.
1741 These are the vampires of the ....
1745 These Vampyres are supposed ...
1762 ... at last sucks blood like a vampyre.
1774 .... is the American Vampyre.
1780 We shall call it Vampire...
1783 The vampyrus, vampire, or Ternate bat, with large canine teeth.
1790 The Vampyre Bat. Tailless Bat with the nose plain...
1793 Vampyre booksellers drain him to the heart.
1796 (1809) The accounts we have of the Vampires of Hungary ....
1801 Thro' the vampire corpse He thrust his lance.
1807 The vampyre bat, which will be found to live on vegetables.
1813 The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant.
1813 The freshness of the face.... are the never-failing signs of a Vampire.
1814 (1964) This is a vampire.
1819 The vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza.
1819 He had been tormented by a vampyre, ... out of the vampyre's grave.
1820c (1825)... The bats and vampires remained with me.
1828 ...—an unearthly vampire tinge.
1831 Some tomb, which oft hath flung into black And vampyre-winged pannels back.
1832 (1894)... but vampires him with verses that would ...
1834 The vampyres, or blood-sucking bats...
1837 Some [of the devils] seem'd equipp'd with vampire wing.
1839 ... and secured the vampire.
1839 The Vampire bat is often the cause of ...
1843 The deadly tarantula spider or ‘vampire’ of the prairies.
1845 (1859) My companion slew fifty-seven Vampyres in the ...
1846 ... shaking off the vampires that had ...
1846 ...(it was what actors call a Vampire trap) ...
1846 Walter Mapes..gives some curious stories of English vampires ...
1847 ....o so died became himself a vampyre.
1847 Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampire-fanned, when I carouse.
1853 (1965) Such are the vampyric notions of reciprocity.
1855 Criticism applied to the Vampire legends by an anonymous writer.
1862 In the German language ...or its intensification, ‘vampyre’.
1864 A sharp prick and the little vampire is drinking your blood.
1867 ... and though Sea-Devil and Vampire ...
1871 Like vampire-bats, they're squeaking, twittering, humming.
1871 There is a whole literature of hideous vampire stories.
1881 Where's my vampire?
1882 ....of some uncomfortable vampiric order.
1886 We would welcome a spectre, a ghoul, or even a vampire gladly,...
1886 A ‘vampire’ is a trap used by the sprites, and is cut in the ‘flats’...
1891 The Highland fairies are very vampirish.
1893 The vampires are remarkable for the varied nature of their food.
1893 ... of the ordinary pantomime ‘vampire’ trap.
1899 That unrest That held him with its vampire spell.
1899 The vampires who supplied them with liquor...
1903 You lie, you vampire, you lie.
1905 ... And gold insolently vampires this produce.
1914 (1940) ... at the old vampirine humbug, and..dashes from the room.
1918 Theda Bara... Vampire of the Screen.
1919 Miss Maitland was a ‘vampire’ of an entirely new type.
1920 ...most perfect vampire characterizations...
1929 ...the reverse of vampirish, money means nothing to me.
1933 The more obvious literary possibilities of vampiredom ...
1944 Mother fastened vampirish eyes on her.
1946 Byron began and dropped a thriller which was becoming vampirine.
1953a (1956) Made whores fascinating vampires instead of ...
1963 She [sc. Marilyn Monroe] ... Marilyn was never truly vampiric ...
1968 A vampire is a woman who uses sex to facilitate the acquisition of ...
1969 She contrives..in a vengeful after-life to play..vampirical havoc with...
1972 ... all the evidence of vampiredom—twisted position...
1978 ...of faded provincial vampires.
1981 Religious references...distinctly vampirish have been glossed over.
1981 Dark legions of the antichrist..vampirically sucking the blood...
1990 The vampirical twosome whose teeth are sunk so deep ...
Etymology:
< French vampire,
< Magyar vampir, a word of Slavonic origin occurring in the same form in Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Bulgarian, with such variants as Bulgarian vapir, vepir, Ruthenian vepyr, vopyr, opyr, Russian upir, upyr, Polish upior; Miklosich suggests north Turkish uber witch, as a possible source. Compare German vampir, vampyr, Danish, Swedish vampyr, Dutch vampir, Italian vampiro, Spanish vampiro, Portuguese vampiro, modern Latin vampyrus.
1. A preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons; a man or woman abnormally endowed with similar habits.
α.
1745 J. Swinton Trav. Three English Gent. in Harleian Misc. IV. 358
These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them.
We note the "supposed" nature of vampires, as if it is not a fact.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 66
From a meal he advances to a surfeit, and at last sucks blood like a vampyre.
1819 J. W. Polidori Vampyre p. xx,
He had been tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave.
Only is 1819, is there a reference of how to rid one of a vampires evil-by eating dirt. No stake needed. Disinformation.
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia iv. 71
Speedy death was the inevitable consequence of such a visitation, and any one who so died became himself a vampyre.
β.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 182
The accounts we have of the Vampires of Hungary are most incredible. They are Blood-suckers, that come out of their graves to torment the living.
The accounts of vampires in Hungary-more disinformation.
1813 Byron Giaour 24 (note)
The freshness of the face, and the wetness of the lip with blood, are the never-failing signs of a Vampire.
1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages I. ix. 301
Walter Mapes..gives some curious stories of English vampires in the twelfth century.
A references to 12th century vampires, but where are earlier citations? More evidence for a vast conspiracy.
1886 Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 55
We would welcome a spectre, a ghoul, or even a vampire gladly, rather than meet [Stevenson's] Mr. Edward Hyde.
2. transf.
a. A person of a malignant and loathsome character, esp. one who preys ruthlessly upon others; a vile and cruel exactor or extortioner. spec. = vamp n.4
1741 C. Forman Some Queries & Observ. Revol. in 1688 11
These are the vampires of the publick, and riflers of the kingdom.
1814 H. Shelley Let. 20 Nov. in Shelley Lett. (1964) I. 421 i. 992
In short, the man I once loved is dead. This is a vampire. His character is blasted for ever.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 174
There appeared to be no prospect of shaking off the vampires that had fastened themselves on the princes of Rajputana.
Documentation of Indian vampires.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 164
The vampires who supplied them with liquor had somehow obtained a claim upon all their wages.
Vampires supply alcohol- no wonder American Prohibition was ended. No doubt the Mafia and Vampires are conspiring.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 170
You lie, you vampire, you lie.
1918 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 20 Apr. 4 (caption)
Theda Bara... Vampire of the Screen.
1919 Honey Pot 1 42
Miss Maitland was a ‘vampire’ of an entirely new type.
Vampires are evolving- "an entirely new type."
1920 C. D. Fox Who's Who on Screen 301
Louise Glaum, who is credited with having given to the screen one of the most perfect vampire characterizations, was born near Baltimore.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 165
Made whores fascinating vampires instead of poor, stupid, diseased slobs they really are.
1968 Word Study Dec. 4/2
A vampire is a woman who uses sex to facilitate the acquisition of money or other signs of wealth.
1978 Ld. Birkenhead Rudyard Kipling vii. 99
A grim but authentic picture..of callow subalterns trotting beside the rickshaw wheels of faded provincial vampires.
b. slang. An intolerable bore or tedious person.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad III. ii. 215
In the German language there is no epithet which exactly translates our word ‘bore’, or its intensification, ‘vampyre’.
Supposed the German language has no word for vampire. Nosefaratu?
c. Applied to a mosquito.
1864 J. C. Geikie George Stanley iv. 61
A sharp prick and the little vampire is drinking your blood.
3. Zool.
a. One or other of various bats, chiefly South American, known or popularly believed to be blood-suckers.
α.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 143
An animal not so formidable, but still more mischievous than these, is the American Vampyre.
The first reference to American vampires.
1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Phys. Geogr. 55/1
The vampyres, or blood-sucking bats, nine species of which have been mentioned.
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross (1859) xvi. 168
My companion slew fifty-seven Vampyres in the few minutes.
A slayer kills 57 vampires in a few minutes.
β.
1780 W. Smellie tr. Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular V. 283
We shall call it Vampire, because it sucks the blood of men and other animals when asleep.
1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8711/2
The vampyrus, vampire, or Ternate bat, with large canine teeth.
c1820 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. (1825) iii. 154
The owls went away of their own accord... The bats and vampires remained with me.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25
My servant,..suddenly put his hand on the beast's withers, and secured the vampire.
It seems that vampires can be captured.
1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 299
The vampires are remarkable for the varied nature of their food.
b. The tarantula spider. rare—1.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xiii. 271
The deadly tarantula spider or ‘vampire’ of the prairies.
c. The devil-fish. rare—1.
1867 Chronicle 5 Oct. 669
This giant of the Cephaloptera is simply a monstrous Ray; and though Sea-Devil and Vampire are assigned to it as trivial names, it..is in no way formidable save from its enormous strength and bulk.
4. A double-leaved trap-door, closing by means of springs, used in theatres to effect a sudden disappearance from the stage.
1881 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy i. 17
Where's my vampire?
1886 Stage Gossip 69
A ‘vampire’ is a trap used by the sprites, and is cut in the ‘flats’, and often in the stage—the sprite falling bodily through the trap.
C1. attrib. and Comb.
a.
vampire bookseller n.
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 183
Vampyre booksellers drain him to the heart.
vampire corpse n.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 103
Thro' the vampire corpse He thrust his lance.
1819 J. W. Polidori Vampyre Introd. p. xxiii,
The vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza.
vampire-fanned adj.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 31
Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampire-fanned, when I carouse.
vampire legend n.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 69
Criticism applied to the Vampire legends by an anonymous writer.
vampire spell n.
1899 E. J. Chapman Snake-witch in Drama Two Lives 39
That unrest That held him with its vampire spell.
vampire story n.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 175
There is a whole literature of hideous vampire stories.
vampire superstition n.
1813 Byron Giaour 23 (note)
The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant.
The vampire "superstition" is still believed in eastern Europe.
vampire tinge n.
1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 42
A sort of yellowish-greenish, brownish grey—an unearthly vampire tinge.
vampire wing n.
1837 A. Tennent Vis. Glencoe 49
Some [of the devils] seem'd equipp'd with vampire wing.
b.
vampire winged adj.
1831 E. A. Poe Poems 64 Some tomb, which oft hath flung into black And vampyre-winged pannels back.
C2.
vampire bat n. = sense 3a.
1790 G. Shaw Speculum Linnæanum
The Vampyre Bat. Tailless Bat with the nose plain, and the flying-membrane divided between the thighs.
The first recording of a vampire bat.
1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 176
The vampyre bat, which will be found to live on vegetables.
Vampire bats live on vegetables-more disinformation. This time from the Royal Society.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25
The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers.
1871 B. Taylor tr. Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 176
Like vampire-bats, they're squeaking, twittering, humming.
vampire trap n. = sense 4.
1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship viii. 63
Down I went through the trap-door (it was what actors call a Vampire trap) before any one was aware of my intentions.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 4/2
All his disappearances are done by means of the ordinary pantomime ‘vampire’ trap.
vampire v. (trans.) to assail or prey upon after the manner of a vampire.
1832 J. Jekyll Let. 29 Nov. in Corr. (1894) ix. 306
Sotheby will not let poor Sir Walter lie quietly in his grave, but vampires him with verses that would disgrace even the annuals.
1905 B. Kennedy Green Sphinx xxi, \The only wealth of the world is the produce coming from the labour of Nature... And gold insolently vampires this produce.
It seems that vampires are proponents of the gold standard.
ˈvampiredom n. the state of being a vampire (sense 1); the acts of a vampire.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 653/3
The more obvious literary possibilities of vampiredom were thoroughly explored and exploited nearly forty years ago.
1972 Daily Tel. 12 May (Colour Suppl.) 56
There before the horrified gaze of the living was all the evidence of vampiredom—twisted position, torn shroud and blood.
Evidence of "vampiredom" or the reign of vampires as late as 1972.
vamˈpiric adj. of the nature of a vampire.
1853 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 Apr. (1965) I. 136
Such are the vampyric notions of reciprocity.
1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol ii. vi,
I'm not sure that you are not a ghost..of some uncomfortable vampiric order.
Like the Freemasons, vampires have degrees or orders.
1963 Listener 24 Jan. 165/2
She [sc. Marilyn Monroe] had all the physical equipment of the vamp, but the spirit of the girl next door... Marilyn was never truly vampiric on the screen, and she was never a ‘taker’ in life.
ˈvampirine adj. = vampiric adj.
1914 in D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 129
This is too much for Vanya; he explodes at the old vampirine humbug, and..dashes from the room.
1946 E. Blunden Shelley x. 135
Byron began and dropped a thriller which was becoming vampirine.
ˈvampirish adj. = vampiric adj.
1891 A. Lang Angling Sketches 57
The Highland fairies are very vampirish.
1929 Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 1/2
Among my own friends my reputation is notoriously the reverse of vampirish, money means nothing to me.
1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source v. viii. 300
Mother fastened vampirish eyes on her.
1981 N. Tucker Child & Book vii. 198
Religious references..to the Virgin Mary behaving in a way that is distinctly vampirish have been glossed over.
vamˈpirical adj.
1969 Daily Tel. 16 May 16/7
She contrives..in a vengeful after-life to play..vampirical havoc with passing warriors.
1990 Guardian Weekly 30 Sept. 25/2
The vampirical twosome whose teeth are sunk so deep into each other's necks that they daren't let go.
In the Modern Age, we read about a vampire twosome. Have they no shame?
vamˈpirically adv.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 July 752/1
Dark legions of the antichrist..vampirically sucking the blood from mankind.
The following are all the citations for vampire in chronological order. No more evidence is needed that philologists are on the vampire "payroll" than the first citation is from 1741, as if vampires are not recorded before that year.
1741 These are the vampires of the ....
1745 These Vampyres are supposed ...
1762 ... at last sucks blood like a vampyre.
1774 .... is the American Vampyre.
1780 We shall call it Vampire...
1783 The vampyrus, vampire, or Ternate bat, with large canine teeth.
1790 The Vampyre Bat. Tailless Bat with the nose plain...
1793 Vampyre booksellers drain him to the heart.
1796 (1809) The accounts we have of the Vampires of Hungary ....
1801 Thro' the vampire corpse He thrust his lance.
1807 The vampyre bat, which will be found to live on vegetables.
1813 The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant.
1813 The freshness of the face.... are the never-failing signs of a Vampire.
1814 (1964) This is a vampire.
1819 The vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza.
1819 He had been tormented by a vampyre, ... out of the vampyre's grave.
1820c (1825)... The bats and vampires remained with me.
1828 ...—an unearthly vampire tinge.
1831 Some tomb, which oft hath flung into black And vampyre-winged pannels back.
1832 (1894)... but vampires him with verses that would ...
1834 The vampyres, or blood-sucking bats...
1837 Some [of the devils] seem'd equipp'd with vampire wing.
1839 ... and secured the vampire.
1839 The Vampire bat is often the cause of ...
1843 The deadly tarantula spider or ‘vampire’ of the prairies.
1845 (1859) My companion slew fifty-seven Vampyres in the ...
1846 ... shaking off the vampires that had ...
1846 ...(it was what actors call a Vampire trap) ...
1846 Walter Mapes..gives some curious stories of English vampires ...
1847 ....o so died became himself a vampyre.
1847 Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampire-fanned, when I carouse.
1853 (1965) Such are the vampyric notions of reciprocity.
1855 Criticism applied to the Vampire legends by an anonymous writer.
1862 In the German language ...or its intensification, ‘vampyre’.
1864 A sharp prick and the little vampire is drinking your blood.
1867 ... and though Sea-Devil and Vampire ...
1871 Like vampire-bats, they're squeaking, twittering, humming.
1871 There is a whole literature of hideous vampire stories.
1881 Where's my vampire?
1882 ....of some uncomfortable vampiric order.
1886 We would welcome a spectre, a ghoul, or even a vampire gladly,...
1886 A ‘vampire’ is a trap used by the sprites, and is cut in the ‘flats’...
1891 The Highland fairies are very vampirish.
1893 The vampires are remarkable for the varied nature of their food.
1893 ... of the ordinary pantomime ‘vampire’ trap.
1899 That unrest That held him with its vampire spell.
1899 The vampires who supplied them with liquor...
1903 You lie, you vampire, you lie.
1905 ... And gold insolently vampires this produce.
1914 (1940) ... at the old vampirine humbug, and..dashes from the room.
1918 Theda Bara... Vampire of the Screen.
1919 Miss Maitland was a ‘vampire’ of an entirely new type.
1920 ...most perfect vampire characterizations...
1929 ...the reverse of vampirish, money means nothing to me.
1933 The more obvious literary possibilities of vampiredom ...
1944 Mother fastened vampirish eyes on her.
1946 Byron began and dropped a thriller which was becoming vampirine.
1953a (1956) Made whores fascinating vampires instead of ...
1963 She [sc. Marilyn Monroe] ... Marilyn was never truly vampiric ...
1968 A vampire is a woman who uses sex to facilitate the acquisition of ...
1969 She contrives..in a vengeful after-life to play..vampirical havoc with...
1972 ... all the evidence of vampiredom—twisted position...
1978 ...of faded provincial vampires.
1981 Religious references...distinctly vampirish have been glossed over.
1981 Dark legions of the antichrist..vampirically sucking the blood...
1990 The vampirical twosome whose teeth are sunk so deep ...