My Library

It should be noted that this class, as well as the shades and the vitalized shells, are all what may be called minor vampires; that is to say, whenever they have the opportunity they .prolong their existence by draining away the vitality from human beings whom they find themselves able to influence. This is why both medium and sitters are often so weak and exhausted aftef a physical seance. A student of occultism is taught how to guard himself from their attempts, but«without that knowledge it is difficult for one who puts himself in their way to avoid being more or less laid under contribution by them. «
8. The Vampire and Werewolf. There remain two even more awful but happily vesy rare possibilities to be mentioned before this part of our subject is completed, and though they differ very widely in many ways we may yet perhaps group