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n Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit.

fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

ack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack. -- False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphy…

Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

le of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.

the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

Belief in the existence of vampires.