As a part of the proper path to salvation, the Church held Holy Communion to be a Sacrament. Now, it should be duly noted that, in earlier vampire traditions of Europe, the vampire was never depicted as a creature that had risen from the grave. Indeed, it had preyed upon the living, but more in a purely cannibalistic manner, like a wild beast. Ancient 'vampires' were generally shown as man-eating monsters, such as the Cyclops of Homer's The Odyssey.
Parasitism is yet another defining quality of the post-conversion vampire of folklore.
Vampires are usually not shown to kill their victims, only to extract some blood from them and move on to another host. This is in sharp contrast to, for example, werewolf folklore, which tells of far more vicious and gory attacks in which victims are literally torn to pieces. The vampire's feeding procedure is far more subtle and subversive, which perhaps is why the creature is so much more frightening to the human mind. One day they must go and chop wood, and they warn her to keep the fire going, because if it were to go out she would have to go get help from 'Malbrou', their hideous neighbor. The girl refuses to share her bread with their dog, and so the angry dog pees on the fire and extinguishes it.