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Before the cape came the Slavic upir.
A suicide or the first plague victim might rise and waste away its own kin. Unearth it. Stake it. Burn it.
“Vampire” entered English in the 1700s.
đź“– Paul Barber, Vampires, Burial, and Death.
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🎨 Vampire by W.Kotarbinski
