Talk:Sympathetic Magic/@comment-26262066-20180723025505

Some vampires in the original folklore could do this such as the German Nachzehrer. It was believed that the Nachzehrer ate their burial shrouds and their own flesh while lying in their grave and basically that drained their families life-force from faraway (not all vampires drank blood all that is needed for a mythological or folkloric creature to classify as a vampire is that it consumes life-force in some way with blood just being the most common depiction). Meaning the consumption of their burial shrouds and their own flesh basically caused them to consume their families life-force simultaneously.