Dec 27 1888 Bats

Vampires not Vicious After All
In a journal devoted to “psychical, occult and mystical research,’ called Light, Mrs. Lawrence Oliphans, in writing upon the powers of healing, pass  a high eulogium upon vampires, who’s intentions have been hitherto, it seems, quite misunderstood. "When a Sensitive” she means - sensitive person, but in the higher latitudes of the occult the Individual is nowhere - “when a Sensitive {illegible} himself to company with a Vampire, it lie will only go in for sympathizing with him he will find, instead of the drain he expected, a new life coming through him from a source that is inexhaustible. 
He could yield power to a thousand men and be stronger for the yielding.” Now, I dare say, not one person in ten with whom one is acquainted has ever met a vampire. Captain Stedman, who traveled in Guiana, where vampires mostly congregate, does not give a very favorable account of them; but his familiarity wite them only lasted between 1772 and 1788, since which time, no doubt, there has been a great moral improvement in these engaging creatures. His first experience with them was rather alarming. On waking about four o'clock one morning he found himself weltering in congealed blood, but without feeling any pain whatever. Having seized a firebrand and run for a surgeon, that gentleman informed him to whom he was indebted for this volunteer minution or blood letting. 
“It is only a vampire,” he said; “he knew when you were asleep, and kept you cool and quiet by the fanning of his enormous wings; he bit a piece out of your great toe, so very small you see that the head of a pin will cover it, and through that orifice sucked your blood. After taking as much as, or rather more than he could conveniently carry, he disgorged it (like Heliogabalus) and then began again.” The Captain had lost at least fourteen ounces of blood, and, being both unscientific and unphilosophical, killed the vampire; its color was nearly black or dark brown, but lighter underneath, and measuring the tips of its wings thirty-two inches and a half. It never seems to have struck him to take a hair of the vampire that bit him, or to cultivate him in any way. The gallant Captain, I suppose, was not a “sensitive,” except as regarded his great toe. 
– Independent.
=== Print Info ===
* Vampires not vicious afterall
* Author Unknown / Not Given
* News and Citizen
* Vol XVI No 42
* Morrisville and Hyde Park, Vermont
* Thursday December 27th 1888
* Page 1
=== Citations: ===
APA Unknown. (1888, December 27). Vampires not Vicious After All. News and Citizen, p. 1.
MLA Unknown. “Vampires Not Vicious After All.” News and Citizen, 27 Dec. 1888, p. 1.
Chicago Unknown. “Vampires Not Vicious After All.” News and Citizen (Morrisville and Hyde Park, Vermont), December 27, 1888, Vol XVI No 42 ed., sec. 1.
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