Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
I've had vampire watermelons in my fridge before. When melons go bad, they really go bad...I wonder, now, if there's such a thing as a were-canteloupe.
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Date: 2010-09-21 04:13 pm (UTC)Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:25 am (UTC)