Alien abduction lore mirrored vampire mythology by adding blood dependency

Evidence

Like Lear, Cooper alleged that the aliens came to earth not out of mere curiosity but because some biological fl aw made them dependent on substances, including blood, that could be obtained from human and animal bodies. According to Cooper, they might have evolved from plants, because they use chlorophyll to convert food into energy and excrete waste products through the skin. How this mechanism related to the need for human and animal blood was not explained. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 460

Categorization

• XREF: This links aliens to centuries-old vampire blood-deprivation tropes, a pattern of borrowing folklore to flesh out pseudoscientific beings. — connects to: The Muslim terrorist is rendered as a psychic vampire stealing life intimately — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 715
• SEED: A piece on how invented extraterrestrial biology repurposes older folklore logics (vampirism, plant-based evolution) and paper over internal contradictions with pseudo-scientific trappings.

Broader Connections

• The Muslim terrorist is rendered as a psychic vampire stealing life intimately #corroborates (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 715