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Nosferatu vs. Vampire — What's the Difference?

Nosferatu vs. Vampire — What's the Difference?

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Nosferatu

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Vampire

A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive.

Vampire

In popular folklore, an undead being in human form that survives by sucking the blood of living people, especially at night.

Vampire

A person, such as an extortionist, who takes advantage of others, especially for personal gain.

Vampire

A vampire bat.
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Vampire

A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.

Vampire

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Vampire

A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Vampire

A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.

Vampire

(dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.

Vampire

A medical technician who works with patients' blood.

Vampire

Synonym of anti-ship missile(ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
Vampire. Vampire. Vampire. Battle stations.

Vampire

To drain of energy or resources.

Vampire

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.
The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church,

Vampire

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Vampire

Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla; also called vampire bat. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

Vampire

Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially Vampyrus spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

Vampire

(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

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