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Vampire, in folklore, the ghost of a sorcerer, werewolf, suicide, or excommunicated person that sucks the blood of the living...
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This Encyclopedia is made up of information from the late 1800s. when the British Empire was at its height, before airplane travel, before automobiles were common and before the western world had been battered by two world wars.