Traditional Vampirism

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 88679

Anne:

>>Rowling tends to hearken back to the original myths and 
legends and rebuild from that ground base as opposed to 
'borrowing' innovations to the legends that have occurred since 
their original inception (which , according to law, is plagiarism 
anyway--not something authors like to deal with on either end. 
<<

Stoker is in the public domain and Rowling has already 
borrowed from him, at least I believe he is the one who 
integrated bats into the vampire legend. The vampire bat, though 
of course named for the monster, is a South American animal 
and was not part of European legends.

As for the traditional vampire as sexual predator,  Trachtenberg's 
"Jewish Magic and Superstition" gives this  as a belief of Eastern 
European Jews, so perhaps the experts disagree. 

Pippin