Vampires!

NOT the sparkly kind! (and that shall be their final mention)

Firstly, I only believe in true, Dracula, Nosferatu vampires in my dreams. Same goes for the other types. This is just a look at some of the vampire legends from around the world. I got a lot of this information from a book on how to draw vampires, called How to Draw Like the Masters.

Upyr: Russian vampire. Generally looks sort of like a Yeti. Tends to be dirty and blood encrusted; feeds on humans after tearing them to shreds.(sounds fun, da?)

Ch'iang Shih: Chinese vampire, appears as a human, but with a greenish-white tinge to the flesh and bearing the wounds of death. Sometimes, it becomes a sphere of light as an immaterial form. his poison breath kills the prey before he drains their blood.

Lamia: Greek vampire. A beautiful woman, winged and serpentine below the waist. She is said to prefer the blood of handsom young men, though there is no mention of whether she kills them.

Baobhan Sith: A Scottish vampire who is a fairylike demon, in a green dress with golden curls and hooves. She attacks in the "wild", usually the forest, dancing with lone men before drinking their blood and eating their flesh.

Nekomata: Japanese vampire, a shape-shifter! He goes from cat with two tails (in size, from domestic cat to larger than human) to grumpy-looking aristocrat. In both forms, his feeding habit is to suck on human blood.

Rakshaka: Brighly colored (blue, green, yellow) Indian vampire. The physical form is either a tiger with human features or a human with tiger features who preys on the blood and flesh of human victims.

Civateteo: Mexican vampire, who looks like a young mother, but as a vampire her face is pale because of her death in childbirth. She hunts babies and children.

And now, everyone's favorite; the Romanian vampire, Nosferatu. As we all know from a certain extremely popular and great novel; the aristocratic male extracts the blood of his human victims through the neck, at night only. His strength is superhuman and he has nearly translucent skin and long sharp teeth.