>According to my wisdom gathered in adventure books, vampires don't suck at the throat, but rather at extremities (toes, etc).<

wsieber, my knowledge of vampire culture is more screen than page-based, but I'm sure they go for the jugular! Think Dracula in any incarnation, or most of Buffy's charming friends. Or am I just showing my knowledge of trash culture?

But you remind me of something my parents told me when I was small - that children who tried to stay awake to catch Santa Claus would be attacked by a creature that sucked all the blood out of their toes, leaving them an empty envelope of skin beneath the bedclothes. (This one haunted me for years - I am now puzzled by it, because it is so atypically bloodthirsty for my parents....)