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@@ -5344,11 +5344,26 @@ valkyrie
 vampire
 ~vampire bat
 vampire lord
+       He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship
+       arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as
+       bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as
+       friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my
+       friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come
+       in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him
+       of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
+       mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on
+       moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those
+       sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we 
+       ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
+       hairbreadth space at the tomb door. 
+               [ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
+
        The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal:
        _vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in
        the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated
        corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking
        the blood of sleeping persons. ..."
+               []
 venus
        Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, was the daughter of
        Jupiter and Dione.  Others say that Venus sprang from the