William Gilbert's Two really despotic brothers, Conrad (who inherits the whole valley of Engadinand) and Hermann (inherits land in Bresciano district) on the border of Italy. Conrad is totally wacked, and takes everything he can get his hands on from his feudal tenants. He has a nasty band of brigands to help him. Herman isn’t much better, but he isn’t much in the story. Conrad is out Brigading one morning and spots the lovely Teresa, daughter of one of this tenant farmers. He has to “have” her. But he decides he wants to marry her. Her father turns down his offer, so he decides that he will kidnap her. He sends him men to do it, but they accidently kill her when they set fire to the farmhouse to drive the family out. They know what reception they will get upon their return if they tell the truth, so they lie. They maintain she got away. He goes ape-shit. He kidnaps the Mayor’s young son to hold til she comes to him. Eventually someone suggests that he visit the sorcerer who lives a few days travel away to find out where she is hidden. The sorcerer tells him that he, himself, will see Theresa delivered for marriage if Conrad gives up his despotic ways, and releases the young mayor’s son. He promises to do so, and after a few extremely magical and threatening incidents, Theresa shows up for marriage. It happens, and on the wedding night she jumps him and drinks his blood while she “slowly sucked from him his life's blood; while he, utterly incapable either of moving or crying, was yet perfectly conscious of the awful fate that was awaiting him.” By day, she is a normal individual, by night, a blood sucking vampire. Conrad flees to his brother, who sends him to his villa on the shore ten miles distant from Genoa. The night he arrives, Theresa shows up and offers him a goblet of blood. If he drinks, he will live forever, and she will have him to drink from forever. He doesn’t. The next AM he is found drained dry. She is gone.
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