vampire

Summary

vampire ranks in the top 0.098% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,178 views/month, #76 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• vampire is a type of undead^[2].
• vampire is a type of mythical creature^[3].
• vampire is a type of supernatural being^[4].
• vampire's Commons category is recorded as Vampires^[5].
• vampire's Unicode character is recorded as 🧛^[6].
• vampire's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vampires^[7].
• vampire's Commons gallery is recorded as Vampire^[8].
• vampire's main food source is recorded as blood^[9].
• vampire's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Vampires^[10].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.^[11].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[13].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[14].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[15].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[18].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[19].
• vampire's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[20].
• vampire's has characteristic is recorded as undead^[21].
• vampire's different from is recorded as vampire in a work of fiction^[22].
• vampire's different from is recorded as Jiangshi^[23].
• vampire's different from is recorded as zombie^[24].
• vampire's different from is recorded as draugr^[25].
• vampire's different from is recorded as vetala^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include undead^[2], mythical creature^[3], and supernatural being^[4].

Influence

Things named for vampire include vampire bat^[27], a taxon^[28]; Vampire squid^[29], a taxon^[30]; Baba Yaga^[31], a weapon model^[32]; Pteropus vampyrus^[33], a taxon^[34]; Rosario + Vampire^[35], a manga series^[36], written by Akihisa Ikeda^[37]; Rhacophorus vampyrus^[38], a taxon^[39]; and The Sims 4: Vampires^[40], a Game Pack^[41].

Why It Matters

vampire ranks in the top 0.098% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,178 views/month, #76 of 77,819).^[1] vampire has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[42] vampire is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[43]

Entities named for vampire include vampire bat^[27], a taxon^[28]; Vampire squid^[29], a taxon^[30]; Baba Yaga^[31], a weapon model^[32]; Pteropus vampyrus^[33], a taxon^[34]; Rosario + Vampire^[35], a manga series^[36], written by Akihisa Ikeda^[37]; and Rhacophorus vampyrus^[38], a taxon^[39].