Down to the middle of the last century there was a belief in vampirism in the east of Europe.
Men of science bore testimony in favour of vampirism with seeming truthfulness and ability, worthy of a better subject.
This seems to have affected such stories as that of psychical vampirism in The Vampire, by Reginald Hodder.
Vampirism might easily be an outcome of dreams, since based on a physical sensation of pricking at the throat, combined with debility caused by weakness, which could be attributed to loss of blood from the ravages of vampires.
The idea of occult vampirism used by Turgeniev is also employed by Reginald Hodder in his work, The Vampire.
There are other types of vampirismin addition to the conventional theme and the occult vampirism.
Vampirism is infectious; every one who has been sucked by a vampire, on physical dissolution, becomes a vampire, and remains one until his corpse is destroyed in a certain prescribed manner.
On their being served in the same manner as the corpse of Arnold Paul the epidemic of vampirism ceased, and no more cases of it have since been reported as occurring in that district.
Ghoulism bears a somewhat closer resemblance than vampirism to lycanthropy.
There are many well-authenticated cases of vampirism in France and Germany.
A committee of inquiry concluded that the spread of vampirism had been due to the eating of certain cattle, of which Paul had been the first to partake.
The principal people of the place, with the doctors and surgeons, examined how vampirism could have sprung up again after the precautions they had taken some years before.
Some learned men have thought they discovered some vestiges of vampirism in the remotest antiquity; but all that they say of it does not come near what is related of the vampires.
No mark of vampirism was found either on the corpse of the son or on the others.
He compares this disease to the bite of a mad dog, which communicates its venom to the person who is bitten; thus, those who are infected by vampirism communicate this dangerous poison to those with whom they associate.
For any one who has eyes, however little philosophical they may be, must not this recital alone clearly show him that this pretended vampirism is merely the result of a stricken imagination?
The military mind seems to have been considerably exercised on the subject of vampirism about that time.
In comparison with this story of yours, vampirism is the merest children's tale--a funny Christmas story, to be laughed at.
The very words of a recital belonging to the times, and to the districts where vampirism was prevalent, prove the force of this supposition.
Traces of vampirism have been discovered in the most distant parts of the earth, and often without apparent connection.
In the face of such facts vampirism cannot be dismissed as simply the product of heated and over-excited imaginations, although it must be admitted that its true nature is still to all intents and purposes a profound mystery.
Careful writers like Calmet and others have, it is true, always maintained that, while the existence of vampirism cannot be denied, the phenomena attending it are in all cases the creations of diseased minds only.
Another period of excitement due to accounts of vampirism comprised the middle of last century, when all Europe was deeply agitated on the subject.
It was long thought that vampirism was known only to the nations of the Slavic race, but recent researches have discovered traces of it in the East Indies, and in Europe among the Magyars.
Even more fearful yet than vampirism is the disease, very common already in the days of antiquity, which makes men think that they have changed into beasts, and then act as such, according to the logic of insanity.
Among Slavic nations and the Magyars lycanthropy is so closely connected with vampirism that it is not always easy to draw the line between the two diseases.
Popular credulity added a number of horrid details to the general outline, and believed that the wretched victims of vampirism became themselves after death vampires, and thus forever continued the fearful curse.
In the Sunda and Molucca islands genuine vampirism is well known, and the Dyaks of Borneo also believe in an evil spirit who sucks the blood of living persons till they expire.
There was no marks of Vampirism found on his son, or on the bodies of the other persons who died so suddenly.
The principal persons of the place, particularly the Physician and Surgeons, began to examine very narrowly, how, in spite of all their precautions, Vampirism had again broke out in so terrible a manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vampirism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
