Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural รขโ‚ฌยฆ In european folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive. In most cases, vampires are represented as reanimated corpses who feed by draining and consuming the blood of living beings.

The meaning of vampire is the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep.