From cccdeb6b01ef5a1bba2d32249909bbe84386193c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nhmall Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 18:00:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] data.base update --- dat/data.base | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index f098dd7c7..d62ce4788 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -5344,11 +5344,26 @@ valkyrie vampire ~vampire bat vampire lord + He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship + arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as + bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as + friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my + friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come + in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him + of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this + mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on + moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those + sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we + ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a + hairbreadth space at the tomb door. + [ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ] + The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal: _vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons. ..." + [] venus Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, was the daughter of Jupiter and Dione. Others say that Venus sprang from the