*finally catching the cows that sped down the hills before her*

"You...*gasp pant* stupid animals! Man, *gasp........* I just *breathes deeply* Can't stand you!"

*she dusts off her dress and wipes a stray tress from her brow dampened by her perspiration...and looks out over the water towards the inn*

On April 30, 2007, a media report stated that three people in Guyana had been arrested in the killing of a woman who'd apparently inspired a superstitious revulsion. During the early morning hours, she had wandered into the village of Bare Root, where even people possessing cell phones still believed in superstition.

Text: The text of this poem is from John Stagg's The Minstrel of the North (London, 1810), pp. 261-268, and has been scanned and proofed by Jack G. Voller. Punctuation, case, and spelling are reproduced as in the original.

ARGUMENT.
The story of the Vampyre is founded on an opinion or report which prevailed in Hungary, and several parts of Germany, towards the beginning of the last century:

The ancient red-sandstone royal burgh of Annan - named for the river on which it stands - was a stronghold of the Bruce's and the home of Robert de Brus 'The Competitor', Lord of Annandale, grandfather of Robert I, The Bruce.

They swept across the Bosphorus and into Eastern Europe with a vengeance, conquering the squabbling Slavs with ease. With them, they brought their middle eastern civilization, and some of their beliefs, but mostly they brought suffering. Suffering in the form of syphilis, leprosy, smallpox, tuberculosis... and God Himself seemed to turn against them, sending flood, earthquakes, and plague.