-Rousseau
Opening quotes by both a reverend and a philosopher? I was immediately impressed by the Web Sight. The rest of the Sight was an alphabetized listing of all the different myths of vampires held throughout the world. The first I clicked on, the Danag, was a Filipino vampire supposedly responsible for planting taro on the islands long ago. The myth continued that the Danag worked with humans for many years, but the partnership ended one day when a woman cut her finger and a Danag sucked her wound, enjoying the taste so much that it sucked out all of her blood through her finger. Note to self: don't cut my finger around Fredward. I was learning a lot from the Web Sight already.
I read carefully through the descriptions, looking for anything that reminded me of Fredward. It seemed that most vampire myths centered around beautiful women as demons and children as victims. I shuddered: Fredward halfway fit the first description, and I halfway fit the second. Many of the stories involved bodiless spirits and warnings against improper burials. There wasn't very much that sounded like movies I'd seen, only very few, like the Hebrew Estrie and the Polish Upier, who were even preoccupied with drinking blood.
Only three entries really caught my attention: the Romanian Varacolaci, powerful undead beings who could appear as beautiful, pale-skinned Europeans; the Slovak Nelapsi, creatures so strong and fast they could probably save someone from a car accident, and one other, the Stregoni Benefici.
About this last one there was only one brief sentence.
156. Such as Carlisle.