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50 years after LaVey's The Satanic Bible coins "psychic vampire"


WWDitS creates Colin Robinson! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_vampire#Energy_vampires

The term "psychic vampire" was popularized in the [1968] by Anton LaVey and his Church of Satan. LaVey wrote on the topic in his book, The Satanic Bible, and claimed to have coined the term. LaVey used psychic vampire to mean a spiritually or emotionally weak person who drains vital energy from other people. Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil's Notebook.

The 2019 American comedy horror television series What We Do in the Shadows includes a character, Colin Robinson, who is an "energy vampire".

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