Theda Bara and her role in 1915's "The Vamp" helped introduce the word "vamp" into the English dictionary - as a noun and a verb. She was also the first entirely fake persona with a made-up personal history.

The painting "The Vampire" by Philip Burne-Jones and the poem "A fool there was" by Rudyard Kipling.

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