Hey y’all! In honor of my comfort read mystery book that I posted about yesterday (Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, by the way!) I’m doing a word origin post on vampire today. And I can’t believe I never thought of this before, to be honest, because it had quite a lot to dig into and learn!
Origins of “vampire”
When did it first get used?
1732, in French
What does it mean?
a “spectral being in a human body who maintains semblance of life by leaving the grave at night to suck the warm blood of the living as they sleep”
Or if you want to get a little loose with it, “night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses”
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