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Look up: vampire

  1. Vampire
    In Slav mythology, a Vampire is an undead corpse which lives by drinking the blood of the living.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. vampire
    [n] - (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. vampire
    In Hungarian and Slavonic folklore, an `undead` corpse that sleeps in its coffin by day and sucks the blood of the living by night, often in the form of a bat. Dracula is a vampire in popular...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  4. Vampire
    Vam'pire noun [ French vampire (cf. Italian vampiro , G. & Dutch vampir ), from Servian vampir .] [ Written also vampyre .] 1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of E ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/5

  5. vampire
    1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. 'The persons who turn vampires are genera ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. vampire
    lamia noun (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Vampire
    [[Image:Burne-Jones-le-Vampire.jpg|thumb|right|260px||Philip Burne-Jones, `The Vampire`, 1897]] `Vampires` are mythological or folkloric creatures, described as undead beings who feed by draining the blood of humans. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term `vampire` was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire folklore into Western Europe from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Folklor...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

  8. Vampire
    • (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during s...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. vampire
    in popular legend, a bloodsucking creature, supposedly the restless soul of a heretic, criminal, or suicide, that leaves its burial place at night, ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/5

  10. vampire
    vampire, in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. They were most commonly thought of as spirits or demons that left their graves at night to seek and enslave thei...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08503


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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