a whiter shade of pale (3rd of 5 parts)

LAMIA
a Libyan vampire. according to legend, LAMIA was a queen of Libya, and all her children were slain by the goddess Hera. in revenge, she still roams the earth feeding on infants. she is also said to entice men into sex and then devours them in a gruesome fashion.

LANGSUIR
a Malaysian vampire said to take the form of a beautiful woman. a woman can become such a creature if she dies in childbirth. she is said to have extremely long nails, dressed in green robes, and have black hair that hangs down to her ankles.

LEANHAUM-SHEE
an Irish fairy mistress, not actually a vampire but engaging in vampiric activities. she uses her incredible beauty to lure men to her side, and then use her charms to place them under her spell. the victim would then waste away as she slowly drains away his life's essence through exhaustive love making.

LOBISHOMEN
a Brazilian vampire that preys mainly on women. it does not actually kill its victims, but instead draw small amounts of blood. after its attack, the woman begins to display nymphomanical tendencies.

LOOGAROO
a West Indian vampire said to go to a "Devil's Tree" each night and remove its skin. it then flies off in search of its victims, in the form of a sulfurous ball.

LUGAT
a form of Albanian vampire said to be reasonably harmless, only feeding briefly on its victims, not actually killing them.

MARA
a Slavic vampire also found in the legends of the Kashube people of Canada. said to be the spirit of an unbaptized dead girl, she is considered to be a terrible night visitor who crushes and oppresses her victims. in the Slavic legend, once the MARA drinks the blood of a man, she will fall in love with him, and will return to plague his slumbers until his death.

MASAN
a vampire from India, usually the ghost of a child, that delights in tormenting and killing children. the MASAN is said to be able to curse a child that walks in its shadow. it will also follow a woman home should she allow her gown dragged on the ground over his shadow.

MASANI
a female vampire from India said to be the spirit of burial grounds. she is black in appearance. her hunts are conducted at night, starting as she emerges from a funeral pyre, and anyone who passes the burial site will be attacked.

MORMO
a vampire from Greek mythology. said to be a servant of the goddess Hecate, she is considered to be a terrible denizen of the underworld.

MOROII
a living Romanian vampire. it can either be male or female, and exhibits most of the characteristics of a STRIGOII.

MURONI
a kind of vampire found in the Wallachia region of Romania. it is said to have the ability to change itself into a variety of different animal forms. while in one of these incarnations, the MURONI can kill easily, with misleading signs of attack being left.

NACHZEHER
a vampire found among the Kashubes of northern Europe. this vampire has the ability to kill its relatives by psychic means. while in its grave, the vampire will begin to devour its shroud, and then pieces of its own flesh. this causes living relatives to begin to waste away.

NELAPSI
a Slovak vampire able to massacre entire villages in a single visit. it also has the ability to kill with a single glance.

NEUNTOTER
a German vampire, considered to be a great carrier of plagues and pestilence, traditionally seen in times of great epidemics.

NOSFERATU
a Romanian species of vampire said to be the illegitimate child of parents who are also illegitimate. soon after its burial, the NOSFERATU embarks on a long career of destruction. it delights in tormenting and engaging in wild orgies with the living. the male can also father children. the vampire hates newly married couples due to its own illegitimacy and wreaks its revenge on such couples by making the groom impotent and the bride barren.