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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 255
QUESTION Xo. 128.
Is a vampire the same as a werewolf?
Answer: Xo, a vampire is a person who absorbs the
vitality of another, while that which is called a werewolf
in mediaeval times was the vital body of a low order of
black magician. He would give a gruesome shape to his
vital body, and partly stud it with dense matter in order
to inflict harm upon other people. The old folk stories
said that it was no use to strike such a thing, blows would
not hurt it. But if it were stabbed with a knife or another
sharp instrument, it would commence to disgorge the
blood of its victims, run away yelping to its home., and
there the black magician who had manifested as a wolf
could be found suffering from a wound in the precise
place
where the wolf had been hurt. This is on account
of a curious circumstance known to occultists as repercus-
sion, and the same phenomena may be seen where spirits
materialize at a seance. The ether in which these spirits
materialize has been taken from the body of the medium,
and if a piece is cut out of the robe of such a spirit, a
piece will be found missing from the garment of the
medium at the close of the seance. This fact has been
used by skeptical investigators ignorant of the law of
repercussion to stamp mediums as frauds, when in fact they
have been perfectly honest, though incapable of explain-
ing away the seemingly damning evidence.