Renfield: The blood is seen as being the locus of the life force. And so that would be the only thing that a vampire in death or an undeath would need. It accounts for a lot of phenomena that they were afraid of, hurt by their communal social order was disturbed by. So folkloric vampires weren't just about a mysterious adversary, but about community survival.

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