Citations:psivamp

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English citations of psivamp

Noun: "a person who claims to consume the psychic energy of others as part of the vampiroid subculture"

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  • 2005, Michelle Belanger, editor, Sacred Hunger, page 46:
    This particular article, published to my site kheperu.org in 2002, was penned in response to a letter received from a psivamp who had stirred up trouble for himself by outing his nature to his Wiccan High Priestess.
  • 2006, Sebastiaan van Houten, The Vampyre Almanac 2006, page 36:
    Most psivamps note a different flavor or feel to Otherkin, some even jokingly calling Otherkin 'energetic candy'.
  • 2009, Joseph Laycock, quoting The Vampire Bible, Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism, page 76:
    Shortcomings? I was born a psivamp, not like the *humans* like yourself the temple teach to become energy-leaches.
  • 2010, Brad Steiger, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures of the Dark Side, page 121:
    Some psivamps enter into relationships with donors in the same way that sanguinarian vampires do, while others consciously train themselves away from human energy altogether, either for convenience or as a result of personal ethics.

Noun: "(fantasy) a type of vampire that feeds off psychic energy"

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  • 1990, Mercedes Lackey, Children of the Night, page 61:
    But that’s psychic vampires. ‘‘Psivamps.’’ Granny told me that “‘vampires’’ were a myth, that the psivamps were the only kind of vampires there were.
  • 1995, Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves, page 208:
    The bloodsucker is sufficiently gentle, sexy, and vulnerable to become the lover of the heroine, a spunky sensitive; the psivamps are evil antihumans who, like Stoker's Dracula, exist only to be destroyed by the community of the good.