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Vampires are mythological of folkloric beings who subsist door feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead of a living person/being. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures, and may go back to "prehistoric times", the term vampire was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known door different names, such as vrykolakas...