Shapeshifter vs Vampire - What's the difference?
shapeshifter | vampire |
(fantasy, mythology) A creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will
* 2000: Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
* 2003: Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities
* 2004: Devin Grayson, Smallville: City
A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.
(colloquial) A person with the medical condition , colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity, brownish-red stained teeth, and increased night vision.
A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus )
As nouns the difference between shapeshifter and vampire
is that shapeshifter is a creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will while vampire is a mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.shapeshifter
English
(Shapeshifting)Noun
(en noun)- The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.
- Like the teller of shapeshifter' stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the ' shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....
- There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!
vampire
English
(wikipedia vampire)Alternative forms
* (archaic) vampyreNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mythological creature) nosferatu, lamia, cadaver sanguine * (bat) vampire bat * (blood drinker) hemovore, hematophagousDerived terms
* vampire bat * vampiress * vampiric * vampirismSee also
* werewolf * bloodsucker * hemovore * * (Common vampire bat) * (Desmodus rotundus) * (Desmodus rotundus) * (Desmodus rotundus) *The meaning of the word "vampire"