The Book of the Vampires

In Search of Vampires

Your family was the victim of vampires.

She was kidnapped by vampires.

Your father, the vampire king, grew angry.

Are you the son of the vampire king?

So this was the birth of vampire economics.

Just like vampires. They are vampires!

The natives there use it to protect themselves against vampires.

But, Professor, vampires only exist in ghost stories.

Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood.

The three species of microbats that feed on the blood of large mammals or birds (vampire bats) exist in the Americas south of the United States.

In Saxon regions of Germany, a lemon was placed in the mouth of suspected vampires.

Trust me, I know how they think, these vampires when they're threatened, they all head for Barbarois.

It wasn't easy, but many vampires died by his hands before this job was over with.

The effect, the payback, perhaps, for years of vampire predators like Bernie Madoff, whom we saw earlier.

Vampire bat colony numbers can range in the thousands in roosting sites.

At war with himself, feared by all, tortured and alone, he is...

Garlic is a common example, a branch of wild rose and hawthorn plant are said to harm vampires, and in Europe, sprinkling mustard seeds on the roof of a house was said to keep them away.

Vampire panic seized the European public repeatedly in the eighteenth century.

But, having debunked the vampire myth, Western intellectuals proceeded to refashion it.

Voltaire transferred the image of bloodsucking vampires to speculators, merchants, kings, and monks.

Vampire bats are believed to be the only species of bats in the world to adopt another young bat if something happens to the bat's mother.

I'd much rather know whether you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer rather than how old you are.

The highest occurrence of rabies in vampire bats occurs in the large populations found in South America.

Three bat species feed solely on blood the common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ), the hairy legged vampire bat ( Diphylla ecaudata ), and the white winged vampire bat ( Diaemus youngi ).

Vampires, according to eighteenth century science, were nothing more than the product of victims' delirium.

The spirit of science found a tactical ally in the Catholic Church, which held that belief in vampires defiles the resurrection of Jesus.

Stoker researched vampire myths intensively, and was influenced by historical books, travel descriptions, and the Hungarian orientalist Ármin Vámbéry.

Vampires.

Vampire bats also share a strong family bond with members of the colony, which is believed to be why they are the only bats to take up this adoption characteristic.

But, having debunked the vampire myth, Western intellectuals proceeded to refashion it. Voltaire transferred the image of bloodsucking vampires to speculators, merchants, kings, and monks.

A liar! A liar!

In Eastern European folk tales, vampires are nocturnal bloodsuckers who have risen from the dead.

I'm afraid of bats.

Again, right now bats are looking at a little bit of a problem.

Watch out for bats!

In 1947, the Surveillance and Control Division acquired its first radar system, and around the same time the RNoAF got its first jet fighters in the form of de Havilland Vampires.

So indeed, bats then do bring us wealth.

Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes,

If the thought of Dracula and vampires makes us shiver, then the vampire myth still fulfills its functions for us as a projection of our fears and uncertainties, sexual desires, group and personal animosities, and longing for the dissolution of the structure of society.

lies within the bat genome.

I stand with the dockworkers against the injustice they are facing. I am against vampires and against indulging them by cracking down on the weak people. And you?

A liar, to start with. A beautiful liar, but a liar nevertheless.

Oh, you're a liar! You're just a liar! You always were!