blood-drain

Chupacabra · salience 0.9

“Witnesses and folklore describe it as attacking animals by puncturing their necks with its fangs and draining them of blood, often leaving behind inexplicably exsanguinated carcasses.”

Ekek · salience 0.9

“This bizarre ability enables them to hover above their sleeping victims, using their elongated beaks to puncture the skin and drink blood.”

Adze · salience 0.9

“the Adze is a vampiric spirit that flies as a firefly to slip through cracks and keyholes, taking human form to feed on blood and possess its victims”

Strigoi · salience 0.9

“return to its home village at night, drain the blood or life-force of the living (family members and livestock both cited in various accounts)”

Yara-ma-yha-who · salience 0.85

“the Yara-ma-yha-who is said to fasten its sucker-tipped fingers and toes to a victim's body and drain their blood”

Krasue · salience 0.6

“in some tellings it feeds by extending a long tongue-like proboscis into its victim.”

Jumbi

“In its most familiar form the jumbi is seen as a glowing, spectral ball of light flying through the night sky, hunting those who travel alone and children, whose blood it drains; it also rides sleepers in the manner of the incubus, taking life and vitality rather than blood.”

Mora

“The compendia describe a vampiric being, typically female, that causes nightmares and steals vital energy from sleepers; a mora that falls in love with her victim drinks his blood as well.”

Mormo

“The lore the compendia preserve is grisly: in her true form the mormo is covered in her own blood and blisters — though the tradition allows she is not so hideous as her kin the empousa — and she is a shape-shifter of legendary range, credited with a thousand horrid forms as well as one lovely one, the beautiful young woman with which she lures young men to be drained and eaten.”