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Prominent figures in the subculture include Michelle Belanger, a self-described psychic vampire, who wrote a book titled The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work, published in 2004 by New Age press Weiser Books. Jon has noted that enthusiasts of the vampire subculture emulate traditional psychic vampires in that they describe 'prey upon life-force or 'pranic' energy'.

Asbjørn Jøn have identified a subculture of people who present themselves as vampires.
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The 2019 American comedy horror television series What We Do in the Shadows includes the character Colin Robinson, a metaphorical and literal "energy vampire" who drains people's life forces by being boring or frustrating. The terms "energy vampire" and "psychic vampire" have been used as synonyms in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union as part of an occult revival. Hammill included a song of the same name on his 1978 album The Future Now.
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The English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill credits his erstwhile Van der Graaf Generator colleague, violinist Graham Smith, with coining the term "energy vampires" in the 1970s in order to describe intrusive, over-zealous fans. Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil's Notebook. LaVey used psychic vampire to mean a spiritually or emotionally weak person who drains vital energy from other people. LaVey wrote on the topic in his book, The Satanic Bible, and claimed to have coined the term. The term "psychic vampire" was popularized in the 1960s by Anton LaVey and his Church of Satan. For the latter, she named folie à deux and similar phenomena. Fortune considered psychic vampirism a combination of psychic and psychological pathology, and distinguished between what she considered to be true psychic vampirism and mental conditions that produce similar symptoms. ĭion Fortune wrote of psychic parasitism in relation to vampirism as early as 1930 in her book, Psychic Self-Defense. The term "energy vampire" is also used metaphorically to refer to people whose influence leaves a person feeling exhausted, unfocused, and depressed, without ascribing the phenomenon to psychic interference. Emotional vampires Īmerican author Albert Bernstein uses the phrase "emotional vampire" for people with various personality disorders who are often considered to drain emotional energy from others.

There is no scientific or medical evidence supporting the existence of the bodily or psychic energy they allegedly drain.

Terms used to describe the substance or essence that psychic vampires take or receive from others include: energy, qi (or ch'i), life force, prana, and vitality.
