Vampire, the ghost of a dead person accursed, fabled to issue from the grave at night and suck the blood of the living as they sleep, the victims of whom are subject to the same fate; the belief is of Slavonic origin, and common among the Slavs.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Vambéry, Arminius * Van