BLOOD-SUCKING BEASTS, WHO FEAST ON HUMANS WHILE TURNING THEM INTO VAMPIRES. THEY CAST NO SHADOW NOT THEIR REFLECTIONS ON MIRRORS. ALTHOUGH THEY MAY HAVE WEAKENED POWERS DURING DAY, THEY CAN TURN INTO A BAT OR A WOLF. THEY ALSO HAVE A HYPNOTIC, SENSUAL EFFECT ON THEIR VICTIMS. THERE WAS ONCE A PLAGUE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. VICTIMS WITH A BLEEDING MOUTH, SKIN DISORDERS WHERE THEY WERE PALE WHITE AND THE SUN GAVE THEM BLISTERS. THERE WERE ILLNESSES WHERE THEY ALSO FELT BETTER BY INGESTING BLOOD. TODAY, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES VAMPIRES, THEY SECRETLY GET BLOOD FROM DONORS AND DO FEEDING RITUALS