10/24/2025
Spooky Season is upon us and all manner of things go bump in the night 👀👻 There is much variety when it comes to dark spirits, even with a pop culture symbol like the Vampire. This list looks at draining source as categorization.
Sanguine/Blood Drinker: the Hollywood star of vampires, feeding on blood regularly to sustain their undead existence. Found in cultures all around the world, from ancient Babylon & Greece to Asia & the Balkans. Some beliefs hold that a vampire can be harmed if the blood is from a person strongly infused with spirit/holy beliefs, love or consumed large quantities of garlic prior.
Psychic/Psi: while not physically harming their victims, these vampires drain life or psychic energy. It can be on an individual basis or extracting life force from crowds of people. Only those that are psychically sensitive will notice this draining feeling or form of attack, most will not feel anything until short and long term fatigue set in.
Elemental: source of energy comes from natural elements like wind and lightning
Soul: feeds on soul energy & purpose, shortening life spans & causing obstacles in life to deter you from your calling.
Sexual: referred to as Incubus (male) and Succubus (female), sustain on sexual life force energies. This can either be psychically, during dream states when most vulnerable, or physically attacking. Sometimes they draw in willing victims.
Emphatic: many will be familiar with this type of vampire — the emotional vampire — feeding on the emotions of people around them. Some purely drain positive energies such as love or joy & there are those that purely draw negative energies like fear or anger. Vampires that feed on darker emotions, usually cause the emotion itself or will do things to provoke a victim into that state of emotion.
