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vampirism


  • n  belief in the existence of vampires
  • n  the actions or practices of a vampire

  • This idea of vampirism as a virus is similar to the latest version of I Am Legend, which you were supposed to direct at one point.
  • What the family doesn't know is that the good father has picked up a little side effect of the experiment: vampirism.
  • They bleed milky white ichor and are infested with little parasitical worms (that's how vampirism gets transmitted).
News & Articles

  • Whales don't eat gulls, so why?
    The kind of situation where a bat steals blood from cattle is termed vampirism. Here seagulls adopt a similar habit with giant whales.
    July 2, 2013 - EARTHtimes.org
Quotes

  • Park Chan-wook in Indie Wire
    In the film you see a cup filled with wine as if it's blood. This could allude to vampirism or religion, but for me it's just a joke,said Park in Cannes Friday. "If the Vatican is as interested in Tom Hanks' film as mine, I'd be thrilled."
  • Helen Zille in Independent Online
    Zille described the Zimbabwe government's attempts at price stabilisation as a military operation intended to scuttle the hostile business community and a "shocking instance of vampirism at its worst".

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