#oupire

[the-north-ship]

That is why it is only when yours seems adequate to you that you can, if

1 Lacan's 1959-1960 seminar, entitled L'ethique de la psychanalyse, has since been edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, published in French (Paris: Seuil, 1986), and translated into English by Dennis Porter as The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1992). (N.B.: All the footnotes provided in this translation of Seminar XX are the translator's notes.)

2 Lacan is playing here on several terms and registers at once: in je vous en prie 3 je vous en pire, prie ("beg," as in "I beg of you") and pire ("worse") are ana- grams; en pire is pronounced in the same way as empire (to worsen or deteriorate); and Lacan's seminar the year before this one (Seminar XIX, 1971-1972, unpub- lished) was entitled . . . oupire (. . . or Worse).

3 Lacan manages to work the term encore into this sentence as well. Less idiomatically put, it could be translated: "I am still (encore) always astonished by it…."

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Fragments of fright (8)

From Edouard Brasey's "The Great Encyclopedia of the Marvelous"

Vampires

Also called: Vampyrs, oupires (upirs), opyrs, nosferats, nosferatus, drakuls, vercolacs, vourdalaks (vurdalaks), strigoï (Romania), obours, grobkiks (Bulgaria), dhampirs (children of vampires in Serbia), cadaver sanguisugus, undeads, living deads

Vampires are undeads that leave their coffins or their graves at night to feed off the blood of the living, whose jugular veins they pierce thanks to their large canines. By doing that they extend their posthumous life, while condemning their victims to become vampires in turn. By this process, centuries after centuries, a "vampire bloodline" forms itself that might never stop. Collin de Plancy evoked "dead men, buried for several years, or at least several days, and that came back in body and souls, walking and talking as if they were alive. They infested villages, abused men and animals, and sucked the blood of their next of kin, exhausting them and causing their death. One could only be free from their dangerous visits and their infestions by exhuming their bodies, impaling it, cutting off their head, ripping out their heart, or burning them. Those that died from being sucked dry became usually vampires too." Vampires were said to drink human blood so greedily that the same blood spilled out of their mouth, of their nostrils and of their ears. When in the morning their returned to their grave, they could be found laying in a pool of blood. Collin de Plancy added that "It was said that these vampires, having a great appetite, devoured the cloth that surrounded them. It was also said that, when they left their graves at night, they went to their family or their friends, violently embracng them - sucking their blood while crushing their throat so they could not scream. Those that were sucked of their blood weakened so much, they almost instantly died. These persecutions never stopped at just one victim: vampires hunted down every member of their family, and every inhabitant of their village (because vampirism rarely appears in large cities). It is thus needed to stop this plague, by cutting the head or piercing the heart of the vampire. People found the vampire's corpse soft, flexible and fresh, even if the person had died for a very long time. Some people took the enormous amount of blood that poured out of these corpses, and mixed it with flour to make a bread - they pretended that by eating such a bread, they could protect themselves from the vampire."

How to recognize a vampire? The vampire usually has a corpse-like skin tone - but they can have red lips and red cheeks when they just gorged themselvs with blood. Their eyes are also red and burning-looking. Their canines are sharp, pointy and usually outgrow their lips. They are very hairy - with their eyebros joinign each other above the nose, and hair being found on their hands, even inside their palms (which is also a trait of the werewolves). Finally, vampires do not have reflections in mirrors, and do not have shadows when under a light. If they usually appear as human beings, they can turn themselves into animals (mostly bats), as well as into fog or smoke. Vampires can fly, and prefer going inside houses by using windows rather than doors - fortunately, they cannot access a place in which they weren't invited. They need a living being to invite them at least once into a given place for them to access it - afterward they can return there as much as they want.

How to become a vampire? Some are more predisposed to become vampires. Children born from the union between a priest and a nun, babies "nés coiffés", born "with a cowl", meaning born with the placenta over their head ; children born with teeth, children born with a birth-mark, children born with a harelip... Red-haired people are also vampire "candidates" (especially in Slavic countries), and so are seventh sons. Children dead without a baptism, or adults born in "state of mortal sin" or outside the sacraments of the Church can also become vampires. It is believed that if a pregnant woman is merely gazed at by a vampire during the three first monts of her pregnancy, then she will give birth to a vampire. But the most certain way to become a vampire is to be bitten by one, and to have your blood sucked by the monster.

Vampires in history: Greco-Roman Antiquity knew of vampiric entities, such as the lamias, but the explicit mentions of dead people (usually excommunicated) leaving their graves at night to torment their kin date back from 12th century England, in Walter Map's De Nugis curialium (1193), and in Guillaume of Newburgh's 1196 Historia rerum anglicarum. The only way to prevent the malevolent actions of those "cadaver sanguisugus" is to open their coffins, find their preserved and blood-filled bodies, and to pierce them with a sword before killing them. After a vampire epidemic of the 14th century which marked all of Eastern Europe and the Balkans (they were attested in Eastern Prussia, in Silesia, in Bohemia, in Moravia, in Serbia, in Poland, in Hungary, in Romania and in Greece), the next notable cases occured in the 18th century. One of such cases was Peter Plogojowitz, an Hungarian vampire accused of killing eight people in the village of Kzilova in 1725.

The next year, it was Arnold Paole who was accused of killing the cattle and the inhabitants of the Serbian town of Medwegya. The lieutenant Büttner investigated this case, which led to a document called "Visum et Repeum", published on the 7th of January 1732. A document which attracted the attention of the French duke of Richelieu, and of the French king Louis XV. The lieutenant wrote that Arnold Paole, member of the local nobility, had broken is neck five years before, falling from a hay cart. But Paole had said, before his death, that he had been the victim of a vampire near Cassoa, in Turkish Persia. To free himself from this evil, he had eaten the soil of the grave of a vampire, and had rubbed the same vampir's blood over him. Despite those attempts, Paole apparently returned beyond the grave to torment the livings as a vampire. His body was taken out of the earth - it was found perfectly preserved, the flesh of a reddish color, and the eyes filled with fresh blood. Blood also poured out of his ears and nose, staining his shirt and his shroud. Believing him to be a vampire, the villagers plunged a stake into his heart and burned the corpse.

In his "Magia posthuma" published at Olmütz in 1706, Ferdinand of Schertz wrote about a case of Hungarian vampires - collected by a certain "M. Of the Island of Saint-Michael". According to this testimony, a person attacked by a vampire in Hungaria, due to having their blood stolen, become exhausted and lose appetite - they lose weight at an alarming rate, and died after eight or ten days, fifteen at best, without any fever and any other symptoms than their body becoming skinnier and drier. The person struck by this "black melancholy" are said to have the spirit so "troubled" that they see a white spectre, a white ghost following them everywhere, the same way a shadow follows the body. The author explains that when they spent winter in Valachia, two horsemen of the company he was part of died of this very sickness, and many more (who were also sufering from it) would have died if the caporal hadn't healed "their imaginations" by performing a local folk-remedy. The author notes this ritual to be extremely peculiar - a young boy is selected, and he has to mount without a saddle a black horse. The young man and the horse are taken to the cemetery and walk among the graves. If the horse refuses to walk over a given grave, it is considered to be the vampire's grave. It is opened and if the corpse looks "as beautiful and fresha as an asleep man", then it is has its neck cut with a spade - and it is believed that from the cut neck will flow in large quantities a beautifully ruddy blood. Once it is done, the beheaded vampire is placed back in its grave, which is filled again with earth. Then, the disease stops and the victims slowly regain their strength.

Vampires in literature and cinema: Numerous treaties about vampires were published throughout the centuries. In 1746, Augustin Calmet published a "Treaty about the revenants in body, the excomunicated, the oupirs or vampires, the broucolaques of Hungaria and Moravia". But the vampires entered in the world of literature in the 19th century, with nglish Romanticism. It was Lord Byron's The Vampyre ; it was Coleridge's Christabel, it was Keats' Lamia... More recently, Anne Rice offered the character of Lestat in "Interviews with a vampire". The most famous vampire is however count Dracula, from the novel of Bram Stoker of the same name, which inspired numerous movies: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu in 1922, Tod Browning's Dracula in 1931 with Belga Lugosi, the numerous movies with Christopher Lee, and Francis F. Coppola's 1992 Dracula. In fact, "Dracula" is the diminutive form of "Dracul", which means "devil" or "dragon" in Romania. Stoker took inspiration from the historical figure of Vlad Tepes (born in 1431, dead in 1476), the fourth voivod of Valachia, considered a national hero who set free his province (located at the frontiers of Romania and Hungaria) from the Ottoman invaders. But his bloodthirsty cruelty and his brutal methods (he liked to empale his enemies by the hundreds on battlefields) gave him the double nickname of "Vlad the Impaler" and "Dracula". Made prisoner by the Ottomans during his last military campaign, Vlad was beheaded. His headless body was buried near his castle, before mysteriously disappearing - feeding a legend which was then perpetuated by bram Stoker's novel.

Vamps and vampires: There is, in vampirism, a strong erotic connotation. As such, male vampires (such as Dracula or Murnau's Nosferatu) seem to be mainly attracted to the blood of young women, while female vampires feed off young men. With the notable exception of Carmilla, the 1872 vampire of Sheridan Le Fanu, a female vampire who drinks from the blood of other women. Carmilla and his victim, Laura, feel for each other a strange and ambiguous desire - Carmilla feeds of Laura's blood and haunts her, while clearly wanting Laura to be "hers", to "belong" to her and for the two to be united in eternity, while Laura is at the same time attracted and repulsed by the vampire (though the seduction wins it over the disgust). A similar ambiguous sentiment can be found in Théophile Gautier's La Morte amoureuse (The dead lover), in 1836 - in this story, the countryside priest Romuald falls for the venonous charm of the beautful and dangerous vampire Clarimonde - there are notably mentions of the vampire's cold body creating "voluptuous shivers" on Romuald's own, and him being overtaken by the desire of having his blood drunk so that his "love might enter her body".

It is recognized that there is a form of sexual vampirism, that does not involve blood, and consists in emptying the victim of its "life-fluid". In this approach, the vampire-woman becomes the character we know today as the "vamp". The Shorter English Dictionary describes a "vamp" as a woman who tries to charm and seduce men (often for dishonest reasons) by using shamelessly her sexual charisma. The vamp is a literal "femme fatale" whose love causes a death - either physical or mental. Sexual vampirism is the embodiment of the "wedding of Eros and Thanatos" - and a French movie-maker, amed Jean Rollin, deeply explored this motif by creating over several decades numerous small fantastic-styled vampire movies, mixing eroticism and surrealism. Le viol du vampire (The vampire's rape) in 1968, La Vampire nue (The naked vampire) in 1969, Le frisson des vampires (Vampires' shivers, in 1970), Requiem pour un vampire (Requem for a vampire, 1971), Lèvres de sang (Blood lips, 1974), La Nuit des traquées (The night of the hunted women, 1980), La Morte vivante (The living she-dead, 1982), Les Deux Orphelines vampires (The two vampire orphans, 1995) and La Fiancée de Dracula (The fiancée of Dracula, 2000). There is also a type of psychic vampires who, consciously or not, "exhaust" their victim by their mere presence. These parasitic beings usually ignore their own nature, and act out of innocence. One can recognize them because of how people are exhausted, discouraged, bored or despaired in their presence - and these feelings stop as soon as they leave.

How to get rid of a vampire? To expose the body of a vampire to broad daylight can be deadly, because these beings of the shadow fear the rays of the sun. Vampires can only cross bodies of water during high tide, or when the sea is still and flat, undisturbed. Vampires fear the crucifixes, the sacred host, and holy water. The use of garlic is tied to a local Romanian superstition. People also had the habit of burying a vampire with his body laying on its belly - as such, if they woke up and tried to dig their way out of the grave, they would go deeper in the earth instead. People also filled the corpses' nostrils, ears and eeyes with incense, when they didn't place garlic in its mouth and anus. But the best way to get rid of a vampire is to plunge a sharp wooden stake in the vampire's heart while it is asleep in its coffin - then, the head must be cut and the corpse burned. The corpse can manifest signs of life during the process - it can scream horribly when the stake is plunged, and blood can flow from the cut neck. Finally, the ashes must be scattered, in a river or into the wind.

#fragments of fright #vampire #vampire lore #vampire folklore #vampires

[syyskirjat]

Finally it’s Carmilla time! I already took notes way ahead of time lol

First some assorted notes:

Perhaps not so singular in the opinion of a town lady like you, as they appeared to us rustic people.

Ah ha! I thought I remembered Laura addressing a woman at some point and I was right. So she's definitely not writing to Doctor Hesselius then.

There were some that did not please me so well.

She was above the middle height of women.

I'm pretty sure this isn't intentional but it is funny.

Her complexion was rich and brilliant

Not pale, as it turns out

She sometimes alluded for a moment to her own home, or mentioned an adventure or situation, or an early recollection, which indicated a people of strange manners, and described customs of which we knew nothing. I gathered from these chance hints that her native country was much more remote than I had at first fancied.

More remote for sure, but maybe not in terms of distance... the past is another country, etc.

The bit about Carmilla's hair feels so vivid that I wonder if it comes from personal experience, either Le Fanu doing that himself or seeing someone else doing it?

The mountebank seems like a character straight out of a fantasy book, doesn't he? Or an RPG.

An "oupire" is just a vampire of course.

Carmilla instantly purchased one, and so did I.

Clearly it works great at repelling the undead.

“Creator! Nature!” said the young lady in answer to my gentle father. “And this disease that invades the country is natural. Nature. All things proceed from Nature—don’t they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains? I think so.”

Modern AU Carmilla would be making YouTube videos debunking creationists

#carmilla #carmilla weekly

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[mourningmaybells]

alternate timeline where we all say "oupire" instead of vampire....

[pathologising]

dont listen to that anon im still very very interested in how that one firefighter? weightlifter maybe? i think? tinder match of urs is doing in modern day

omg it was the weightlifter and i think about him every day he was so fine and yet i passed him up for a weeb and now i hate white men who watch anime 

#stop he was so fine....he was so fine.... #there was also that lawyer but he was boring #oupire #💌

[moriquende]

 ` @oupire requested a starter !

              CASSIUS   STOOD   ACROSS   THE   STREET   FROM   an   abandoned   house   ,   staring   up   at   the   dirty   windows   as   snow   fell   softly   around   him.   he   was   cold,   but   no   colder   than   any   other   day,   as   the   curse   of   vampirism   often   chased   away   the   pleasantry   of   WARMTH.  ❛    someone   said   the   home   to   be   terribly   haunted.   no   one’s   lived   there   for   years. ❜   a   subtle   glance   to   the   side   was   made   --   his   expression   tucked   safely   behind   a   mask   of   indifference.  ❛    do   you   believe   in   ghosts ? ❜

#oupire #hello !! :> #i could do a medieval verse or modern w/e suits u better !

[sc4bpuppy]

“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”

- J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

#can’t believed I’ve never posted my butch Carmilla fanart #maybe i have and i just forgot #well ur getting it again #butch #vampire #butch vampire #Carmilla #J. Sheridan Le Fanu #beware the oupire...or not ;) #classical lit #lesbian vampires #digital illustration #my art #scabpuppyarts

[abhuman]

For the vampire is truly ancient. Long before Christianity his presence was imagined among the peoples of coastal Egypt, in the Himalayan recesses of north India, and on the steppes of Russia. The proliferation of names gives some indication of mythic currency: called "Vurdalak" in Russia, "Vampyr" or "Oupir" in East Europe, "Ch'ing Shih" in China, "Lamia" in ancient Greece, the vampire was part of almost every Eurasian culture.

James B. Twitchell, from The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

[sailorcuba]

pretty sure s/oupires is a r*dfem leaning dangerously close towards t*rf so I'd be careful around her art bro

Oh really? if that’s true then yikes .....

#if yall got links pls feel free to send them to me i wanna check stuff like that #letterbox

[vivelareine]

Reading Treasure: October Offerings: Calmet’s Vampires

The revenans of Hungary, or vampires, which form the principal object of this dissertation, are men who have been dead a considerable time, sometimes more, sometimes less; who leave their tombs, and come and disturb the living, sucking their blood, appearing to them, making a racket at their doors, and in their houses, and lastly, often causing their death. They are named vampires, or oupires, which signifies, they say, in Sclavonic, a leech. The only way to be delivered from their haunting, is to disinter them, cut off their head, impale them, burn them, or pierce their heart."

#18th century #vampires #hungarian history #maria theresa #halloween #bleh bleh bleh

[muzzleroars]

[T]hey see, it is said, men who have been dead for several months, come back to earth, walk, talk, infest villages... suck the blood of their near relations, make them ill, and finally cause their death...These revenants are called by the name of oupires or vampires, that is to say, leeches.” [AU where vampires truly only care for blood while recalling nothing of their human life and are compelled to drink from their loved ones. Since Yuu is Mika’s only still living family, he seeks him out and Yuu, hoping to still be able to reach Mika in this state, allows him to drink his blood to sustain him. While it is well-known vampires retain none of their living memories, Yuu swears Mika is still Mika, and one day he’ll remember him and their family.]

#owari no seraph #seraph of the end #onsedit #mikaela hyakuya #yuuichirou hyakuya #mine #decided to try something different with my recolors #and like i thought of this au and i thought it could fit really well #REALLY I JUST MADE MYSELF A LITTLE SAD #idk i'm full of a lot of mika suffering vs becoming a true monster #it says a lot to me that mika is in so much pain #but his greatest fear is losing his ability to feel and to experience #his love and caring for the ppl he's close to are truly extraordinary #he'll endure so much pain if it means he can keep loving yuu #(also i just love folkloric vampires) #(it's kind of fun to play with this idea) #(but i have no idea if it ends well or not hmm)

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  Title: Night Vision: An Oupire Romance Author: Caroline Davis Genre: Paranormal Romance   This novel is part “realizing one’s place in the world,” part romance, taking readers on a journey with Lily Schmidt, an oupire who lives in a watchful community of oupires in Brookton. Continue reading

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Dissertation Sur Les Vampires Calmet

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[pathologising]

if it helps u feel better i also have a moment every couple of days where i think to myself "god i wonder if angel has found that weightlifting guy again yet" i know hes out there

hes literally out there and the worst part is im moving to nyc so i will likely never find him again but i think there are a million men like that in nyc hopefully i hope because he truly was so fine its unreal SO fine im SERIOUSSSSSS

#oupire #💌