Vampires: Medieval Thru Renaissance Periods

But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent: Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race; There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life.... Wet with thine own best blood shall drip Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip; Then stalking to thy sullen grave Go -- and with the ghouls and afreets rave, Till these in horror shrink away From specter more accursed than they!

-- Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813)