psivamp

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English

Etymology

From psi (a form of psychic energy) +‎ vamp (a vampire).

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Noun

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psivamp (plural psivamps)

  1. A person who claims to consume the psychic energy of others as part of the vampiroid subculture.
    • 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'.
    • 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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:psivamp.

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