The Hantu Langsuir is said to be hideous with piercing red eyes.
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The Hantu Langsuir, from Malaysian lore, is one of the most feared and deadliest of all banshees of Malaysia. It was believed that woman who died giving birth to their child, who also dies, will become a Hantu Langsuir after 40 days. She is described as being hideous with red piercing eyes, sharp claws, very long hair, a decayed face, and huge fangs. She is able to fly and is most often seen wearing a green or white robe. The hantu langsuir could also shape-shift into an owl. She is also vengeful and furious and will go after newborns and pregnant women, drinking their blood, milk, and organs from the inside out causing a very slow death. It was believed that the hantu langsuir has a hole on the back of her neck used to suck blood. Filling the hole with her hair or cutting her claws will make her human again. To prevent women from turning into a hantu langsuir many glass beads must be placed in the woman’s mouth. The still-born children of the hantu langsuir are called Pontianak.
Astral Vampires take the form of a spirit to attack their victims.
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The astral vampire, from occult lore, is the spirit of a living vampire or other evil entity. They can also be created by witches or sorcerers who are strong enough to project themselves out of their own bodies to attack people at great distances. The attack is said to be created psychically and they may also be referred to as “psychic vampires”, not to be confused with its other meaning. (a person who believes they can feed off others energies psychically.)
The spirit of a restless dead person may also be able to project itself by exiting its body and feed on living people. When a living person is attacked while sleeping, it feeds off of the psychic energy and can cause depression, madness, and suicide to the victim. When the spirit of the vampire returns, the dead body feeds off of it, this theory is known as the “hemolytic factor.” The vampire sucks up the red corpuscles released in the victim’s blood. These are later brought back to the grave and given to the corpse for food or energy. To protect against one of these vampires only magic will help, using a stake in the heart will not stop it.
John Haigh was known for using acid to desolve his victims.
Introduction
John George Haigh was born on July 24, 1909 and was later known as the “Acid Bath Murderer.” Haigh grew up with strict parents who were members of the Plymouth Brethren. His parents, John and Emily brought their son up in a house with a 10 ft. tall fence around it, which confined Haigh from the outside world. He was very intelligent which led to scholarships. He received one for the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, then later to Wakefield Cathedral, where he became a choirboy. He had many friends and was soon an apprentice for a firm of moter engineers. He then left that job and took a few jobs in insurance and advertising, until he was suspected of stealing cash and was fired at age 21. He was married for a short time at age 25, and had no interest in sex after things didn’t work out. His wife did give birth while he was in prison but gave the baby up for adoption. For the next ten years he ended up in prison three times for fraud and being dishonest.
The Dreams
Some interesting things about his childhood might have led up to his murders later on in life. At the age of six he became fasinated with blood and would often hurt himself so that he could taste his blood. He was also interested in the Holy Communion and the Crucifixion. He also had some pretty intense dreams, most of his dreams were about railways accidents filled with bleeding people. These dreams stopped but then came back to him in 1944. When Haigh was 35, and out of prison, he injured his head and blood went into his mouth. He began to have the dreams with bloody people and would also have dreams about a forest filled with crucifixes that would turn into bleeding trees. He would taste the blood, when he would wake up he would crave the taste of blood. The dreams were in a weekly cycle increasing from Monday through Friday.
Covering up the Crimes
While he was in prison this gave him time to think. He thought the perfect way to get rid of bodies would be to destroy it with sulphuric acid. When he came back home in 1944, he rented a storeroom and bought vats of acid. He first experimented with mice and observed that it only took about a half an hour for the body to completely dissolve. Right after being freed from prison, he became an accountant at an engineering firm.
It Begins
One night he ran into his friend McSwan, where he introduced Haigh to his parents who told him they invested in property. On September 6, 1944, people had been searching for McSwan and he was no where to be found. Later, it was determined that Haigh hit him over the head, cut his neck open, and began collecting cup fulls of blood. Then to dispose of the body, he took McSwan to his basement. He put McSwan’s body in a 40-gallon drum and poured concentrated sulphuric acid all over top of him. He would then drink the blood which he said made him feel “relieved.” Two days later the body turned into a mud-like consistancy and was poured down a manhole. He told McSwan’s worried parents that their son went to Scotland to avoid being drafted into the military. He later went over to the McSwans’ house after frequent inquiries from his parents about why their son hasn’t come back yet when the war was about to end. He then took them to his house where he murdered them on July 2, 1945. He then stole the pension cheques and sold their properties and was left with a lot of money. He went along killing for the next 4 years (5 years in all). He then killed and robbed another couple acting like he was interested in a house they were selling.
Conclusion
He was arrested then put on trial. He could’ve been making up the blood-drinking in order for him to appear insane, but he would talk about his dreams before he would kill and about how he would crave blood. He was hanged in London in 1949 and claimed to have killed 9 people even though he was convicted of six murders.
The Bruxsa often takes the form of a bird during the night.
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The Bruxsa is from Portuguese lore and is a female vampire witch. She is described as being a beautiful woman in the day and leaves in the form of a bird at night looking for lost travelers or babies. She is able to have marry and have children and will eat them. She will attack and suck the blood from infants sleeping in their cribs and is hard to kill. Unlike many other witches, her choice to be evil is hers, rather than the cause of an accident or a birth defect. The Bruxsa is said to be immortal and has immense sorcerous powers. She is able to cause miscarriages, storms, droughts and disease. Garlic is a good repellent for the Bruxsa, and she cannot be killed by mortal means.
The Dearg-Diulai, a vampire from Irish lore.
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Introduction
The Dearg-Diulai is a vampire from Irish lore. The name, when translated, means “red blood sucker.” This vampire takes the shape of a beautiful woman. She waits on travelers in unpopulated areas. It was believed that the spirit could not rest in peace until she finds a female to take her place. In Waterford, there is a specific Dearg-Diulai legend where a dearg-diulai would lure men by offering sex, then sucks their blood.
The Evil Man
The Dearg-Diulai doesn’t necessarily have to be a female, there is one legend of a male that comes from the county of Derry. A man named Abhartach was said to have performed many evil deeds on local residents. After hearing stories from several of these people, the village chieftan killed him and buried Abhartach standing up (which was how they buried people in Celtic tradition).
The Next Day
The next day his spirit rose up from the grave and drank blood from the people in the village. He was killed again by the chieftain and was reburied. He reappeared the following night and once again drank blood. The chieftain, receiving advice from a Druid, stabbed Abhartach with a sword made of yew. After he died for the third time, they buried him upside down and weighted him down with a massive rock that was covered in mountain ash, which was thought to repel evil. After that occurrence, Avhartach was not seen again.
The Empusa is a vampire from Greek lore.
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The Empusa when directly translated from Greek, means simply “vampire.” In Greek legends, vampires are demons that takes over a corpses. It has no particular shape, but it sometimes takes the shape of a young woman or a phantom. It enters a human’s body and drinks all of their blood. It prefers blood from a young healthy person, and the Empusa believe that a youthful person’s blood is more pure and strong.
The Conventry Street Vampire, thought to be a spirit of a previously deceased vampire.
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Introduction
The Coventry Street Vampire was a vampire case that took place in London in April 1922. The vampire was thought to have been a spirit from another vampire who drank the blood from a woman and killed her back in 1890. Several people witnessed a tall black creature with wings (similar to Mothman) flying around a church.They say that it went into the church cemeteries and ran around the graves. Two policemen chased it and it let out an awful scream and flew away.
The Encounters
The first attack happened at 6 A.M. on April 16th, when a man went walking down Coventry Street claimed that an invisible force attacked him. He felt as though someone had bitten his neck and sucked his blood out, and felt a bit dizzy. He woke up in a hospital where the doctors told him he had been stabbed with some type of thin tube. Later that evening two other victims were brought to the same hospital and suffered the same wounds and had the same experience. There was a rumor that the police hired a vampire hunter, where he chased the being and stabbed him in the heart with a stake. Soon after the attacks stopped.
The Danag, a filipino shadow vampire.
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The Danag is from Filipino lore and is considered a vampire. The word danag means “image in the dark, silhouette.” At first the Danag was considered to be nice and helpful by helping people plant. This all changed when a woman cut her finger and he got his first taste of blood. He enjoyed it so much he sucked her dry and she died. From then on he is considered to be evil and is known to move about at accelerating speeds.
The Adze, in the form of a firefly.
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The Adze is a type of vampire that takes the form of a firefly. This little vampire is believed in African lore, and is said to dwell near tribal sorcerers, especially those of the Ewe in Ghana and southern Togo. This firefly’s favorite is blood from little children. The adze can also possess people, and anyone under the influence of an adze is considered a witch. If a person captures the lightning bug, the bug will take human form. The adze can also drink coconut water and palm oil if no blood is available.
