anthropology
Psychic Vampirism
The condition, often unconscious on the vampire's part, in which one person chronically drains the vital force of another in close relationship, leaving the victim persistently exhausted or ill while the vampire is sustained. Distinct from psychic_attack in mechanism (a parasitic, often unintentional energy-transfer within an ongoing relationship, rather than a deliberate willed assault) and in being a chronic condition rather than a discrete event.
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Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | Preface-c
“As a young girl of twenty I entered the employment of a woman who I now know must have had a considerable knowledge of occultism obtained during a long residence in India, and concerning which she used to drop hints that I could make nothin…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 2. Analysis Of The Nature Of Psychic Attack-g
“Taken separately, any of the incidents in this strange eventful history can be explained away, but taken together they make a curious story, especially when it is remembered that without any previous information a psychic investigation had…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-a
“THE alleged Vampire has always been a popular character in tales of mystery and imagination.
There is a considerable literature concerning his doings, from the famous novel Dracula to serious studies of the medieval witch-trials, for which…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-b
“Such cases are by no of means uncommon, and clear up rapidly when the victim is separated from the vampire.
Whenever there is a record of a close and dominating bond between two people with the devitalisation of one of them, it is a good p…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-c
“Taverner, but the actual facts are such that they were unsuitable for a work supposedly designed to amuse.
At that time I was doing the tutorials in abnormal psychology at the clinic I have spoken of, and supervising the work of the other…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-d
“It was, in fact, the same method that I was instructed to use in dealing with my were-wolf, but it is a much more formidable task to absorb and transmute the projection of another person than to absorb one’s own, and could only have been ac…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 6. Hauntings-d
“It was merely force in a state of tension.
It was sheer physical noise that made the disturbance, as I can testify, for I have slept, or rather, tried to sleep, there.
Where a ghost is seen, it is usually also heard because for a form to…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 6. Hauntings-e
“Celts are notoriously susceptible to psychic influences, and are always the first to be affected by them.
It will be observed that the babies went down first under the attack, their resistance being low compared to that of an adult; and th…”
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