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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1927
Page
9
In Aux Cayes Haiti a mixed heritage woman Anastas Dieudonne confessed to draining blood from her elderly niece. Doctors failed to find cause as the child weakened. A local elder claimed vampirism or a loup garou was at work, sparking community debate in the modernized port town.
Slang about vampires and werewolves notes their fiction based roots. Bram Stoker created Count Dracula a man who loves blood and became a worldwide horror icon. The piece mentions a play adaptation by John Balderston staged in New York and London.
The article explains authentic vampire cases from Anastasie Dieudonne in Haiti to European nobility like Countess Bathori and the vampire lore in Britain. It contrasts true vampire bats in tropical regions with harmless U.S. fruit-eating bats and details how some humans become vampires through madness while describing methods used to stop alleged undead outbreaks.
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