David DeLaney wrote:
> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Now a big "problem" to reproduce vampires is to make the critters
>> dependent on humans specifically, but do we have to do that? Do
>> classical vampire stories have cattle mutilations as well? There's
>> that crazy guy who eats flies, isn't there? So I'm thinking, we do
>> have for real "vampire bats"... they just don't dig wolf calls, and
>> turn into mist, and all that.
>
> Several different authors have had them able to live off cattle, horse
blood,
> small animals, etc.; some of them explain that the blood of 'lesser
animals'
> isn't as tasty, or as vivid, or doesn't pump them up as much, as human
blood,
> while others have it all be about the same.
>
> Dave "blood pudding" DeLaney
Nobody's (I think) mentioned the Discworld vampires.They prefer human
blood, but can explicitly do without it, and the Black Ribboners do.
They are really immortal, like the Hammer Horror Dracula. They can be
reduced to dust, but sooner or later, some of that dust will come into
contact with blood - it may take millennia - and the vampire will
reconstitute, its personality intact.
Weak vampire: Otto Chiek, the Black Ribbon vampire flash photographer.
He can tolerate sunlight, but is invariably reduced to dust by his
camera flash. He carries a small vial of blood which, usually, breaks
when he disintegrates; failing that the sign he carries asks passers-by
to break the vial. His passion is for light rather than blood, and he is
possibly the least threatening vampire in fiction.
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