HUMAN VAMPIRES.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 164, 4 November 1876, Page 2

HUMAN VAMPIRES.

Blood drinking lias become quite popular of late years, and many invarfls daily visit the abattoirs of New York for the purpose of drinking the warm life-blood of the Ox. It is a fact—not so generally' knowfi, however—that this appetite increases upon those who indulge in it. Women, who at first quaff with repugnance and some horror a wine glass of the 'vVarm crimson gore, gradually acquire a craving for it, and take down a tumblerful with evident relish. Parties under this blood-spell almost invariably manifest a desire to try the effects of hitman blood. Two Oases of this kind have been reported in New York.

A young lady belonging to a respectable family suffered in health while devoting herself to her academical studies. tier medical attendant, who' vouches for the truth of this story, suggested blood drinking. Permission and the necessary privacy was secured at the abattoir. Salutary effects were not lortg in following. The pallor left her check, her frame became more robust, and in ten months she gained fifteen pounds in weight. From having been a pale uninteresting-looking girl she developed radiant beauty, and she married the young assistant of the medical adviser who had saved her life. Well acquainted with the means by which she had been restored, her husband encouraged her natural curiosity respecting the effects of various kinds of blood ; and probably quite as much for the purpose of his own professional information as for the gratification of her Owrt wish, he opened a small artery irt hiS log and permitted her to suck the vital tide. An inordinate mania for her husband’s blood fort with supervened. He gratified her cravings again and again, until disgust for her became the predominant feeling of his mind; apd after he had done himself a great amount of physiom

injury, he bade her a final adieu and Bailed for Pern. The wretched youngwife now lies on a sick bed, and lives almost entirely on blood brought her li-’otn an abattoir. She is a monomaniac on this subject, and had she the opportunity, would undoubtedly become a, Vampire, and banquet perpetually on human blood. The other case waS that of a woman of twenty-five, threatened with a decline. By the advice of a S'sician she took, four times a day, a lespoonfull of cod liver oil mixed in a wincglassful of blood. The woman was restored to health, but while she left oft’ taking the oil she continued the dose of blood. At this time her husband met with an accident on the staircase of their house, by which he lacerated the back ’of his hand and wrist with broken glass. She rushed to him ill alarm to stem the flow of blood ; but instead oi 'stemming it she sucked it until he swooned away, and lay ghastly, exhausted, and motionless as one dead. The timely arrival of the landlord prevented a fatal catastrophe. The wretched wife was alternately sucking her husband’s wrist and bewailing Ids misfortune in hcart-rcndillg toilcs. Her mouth literally dropped gore. The landlady at first imagined that she saw before her a terrible accident to the _ husband that had culminated in the suicide of the wife.