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Vampire hunter or vampire slayer is a fictional occupation in folklore and fiction which specializes in finding vampires, and sometimes other supernatural creatures.A vampire hunter is usually described as having extensive knowledge of vampires and other monstrous or undead creatures, including their powers and weaknesses, and uses this knowledge to effectively combat them.
List of television series about vampires, creatures from folklore that subsist by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore , vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive.
James Eaves. George Anton, Stephanie Beacham, Claudia Coulter. On the day of her death, a normal woman is transformed into a genetically engineered vampire and trained to kill. She is sent on a mission to stop the Souls of the Damned from being unleashed into our dimension.[ 18] The Insatiable.
Box office. $51.4 million [ 1] Daybreakers is a 2009 science-fiction action horror film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, depicting a fictionalized history of the American Civil War with the eponymous 16th president of the United States reimagined as having a secret identity as a lifelong vampire hunter fighting against a caste of vampiric slave owners.
A more speculative case of vampirism is that of Glámr, who was asked to tend sheep for a haunted farmstead and was subsequently found dead with his neck and every bone in his body broken. [ 34 ] [ e ] It has been surmised by commentators that Glámr by "contamination" was turned into an undead ( draugr ) by whatever being was haunting the farm.
There are several types of vampire lifestylers: [1] " Sanguinarians": (sometimes referred to as hematophages) consume the blood of others [1] "Psychic vampires": claim to attain nourishment from the aura or pranic energy of others [1] [6] [7] in order to balance a spiritual or psychological energy deficiency, such as a damaged aura or chakra [3]
Psychic vampire. A psychic vampire (or energy vampire) is a creature in folklore said to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures. The term can also be used to describe a person who gets increased energy around other people, but leaves those other people exhausted or "drained" of energy. [ 1] Psychic vampires are represented in the ...