{"id":8024,"date":"2023-01-23T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:46:22","slug":"the-elegance-of-bloodletting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/the-elegance-of-bloodletting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elegance of Bloodletting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Featured Image:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Les heures de la nuit (1821), The New York Public Library Digital Collections<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_separator td_block_wrap vc_separator tdi_8  td_separator_solid td_separator_center\"><span style=\"border-color:#EBEBEB;border-width:1px;width:100%;\"><\/span>\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.td_block_separator{\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  align-items: center;\r\n                  margin-bottom: 38px;\r\n                  padding-bottom: 10px;\r\n                }.td_block_separator span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  display: block;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  height: 1px;\r\n                  border-top: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_left span{\r\n                  margin-left: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_right span{\r\n                  margin-right: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_dashed span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dashed;\r\n                }.td_separator_dotted span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dotted;\r\n                }.td_separator_double span{\r\n                  height: 3px;\r\n                  border-bottom: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  height: 20px;\r\n                  overflow: hidden;\r\n                  border: 0;\r\n                  color: #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span > span{\r\n                  position: absolute;\r\n                  top: -30px;\r\n                  left: 0;\r\n                  right: 0;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  height: 13px;\r\n                  width: 98%;\r\n                  border-radius: 100%;\r\n                }html :where([style*='border-width']){\r\n                    border-style: none;\r\n                }\n<\/style><\/div>[vc_column_text]<em>Vogue<\/em>, a century or so ago, often featured the \u201cfancy dress balls\u201d of the day, especially as they pertained to charity events and the idling of the rich\u2014the magazine proclaimed such costume parties (in the 1913 article \u201cOn With the Masque!\u201d)\u00a0to\u00a0be\u00a0a\u00a0\u201cwhirling\u00a0vortex\u00a0of \u00a0merriment\u00a0in\u00a0 the guise of bird, beast, or flower, or as the elements of nature, or in plumes borrowed from many nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you chose not to draw on cultural stereotypes, there was always the glorious, satiny bat. In a 1910 Vogue guide to costumes for fancy-dress dances, readers are advised to avoid \u201cthe gaudy and tinseled models.\u201d Instead, it steered readers toward \u201cthe bat\u201d among its other recommendations of \u201cVenetian fruit seller\u201d and \u201cItalian peasant.\u201d Foremost: \u201cFor brilliant effects, when necessary, there is available a glazed tarlatan \u2026 It is originally intended for wrapping furniture and bric-a-brac when the house is shrouded for the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such celebration of the bat\u2019s style coincided with the grimmer reports of the time of the actual beast\u2019s less debonair qualities, from its bloodsucking on sleeping victims to its anti-dapper swagger. The Bronx Zoo was the first to exhibit vampire bats in captivity, in 1933; the New York Times quoted the zoo\u2019s curator of mammals and reptiles upon the bat\u2019s Dracula-like arrival to the city: \u201cIt used the wings as stilts, more or less, and in walking looks like a giant spider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean Painlev\u00e9, who was described in his New York Times obit as \u201ca biologist, fetishist, filmmaker, and aquanaut\u201d filmed a vampire bat in 1939. When the short was released in 1945, \u201cThe Vampire\u201d became a clear allusion to the Nazis. The Times describes the film as featuring a bat that \u201cgives a guinea pig a gentle kiss on the lips, which, as the subtitles explain, numbs the victim in the place where the bloodletting will occur \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few reports from the 1870s noted the vampire bat\u2019s inclination toward toe sucking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany tales have been told of the Vampire Bat,\u201d writes the Reverend J.G. Wood, in Wood\u2019s Animal Kingdom of 1870, \u201cand its fearful attacks on sleeping men\u2014tales which, although founded on fact, were so sadly exaggerated as to cause a reaction in the opposite direction. It is reported to come silently by night, and to search for the exposed toes of a sound sleeper\u2014its instinct telling it whether the intended victim were thoroughly buried in sleep. Poising itself above the feet of its prey, and fanning them with its extended wings, it produced a cool atmosphere, which, in those hot climates, aided in soothing the slumberer into a still deeper repose. The Bat then applied its needle-pointed teeth to the upturned foot, and inserted them into the tip of the toe with such adroit dexterity, that no pain was caused by the tiny wound. The lips were then brought into action, and the blood was sucked until the Bat was satiated. It then disgorged the food it had just taken, and began afresh, continuing its alternate feeding and disgorging, until the victim perished from sheer loss of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This account seemed to be directly referenced, and dismissed, in The Columbian Cyclopedia of 1897: \u201cVampire-bats sometimes attack men, when sleeping in the open air; but the stories of their fanning their victims with their wings, while they suck their blood, are fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fabulous, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The Delineator, the turn-of-the-century fashion magazine, featured the fancy-dress bat costume in the article \u201cCarnival and Masquerade Costumes\u201d: \u201cThe mantle is of black satin, made double and whaleboned to represent large wings cut something like an umbrella top. The arms should be gracefully raised at frequent intervals to suggest this winged creature in flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an 1898 article in The Puritan on \u201cNovelties in Fancy Dress\u201d describes the bat costume as \u201ca very ingenious and artistic affair\u201d with black taffeta silk for wings, and ribs of featherbone. \u201cThese wings are attached to the long black gloves and are fastened over the shoulders in fichu fashion, meeting over the bust in front and finished by a small entire bat. The decoration for the head is a large bat\u2019s head and small bats decorate the slippers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But film scholar Diane Negra suggests, perhaps, that the bat\u2019s arrival at the fancy-dress balls signaled that the party was over. She notes that \u201cin the early decades of the century, makeup was integrally tied to a cultural sense that the boundaries of class were collapsing, and the vamp iconography of pale skin and heavily made-up lips and eyes might well have connoted transformative desire to audiences at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silent-film actress Musidora, along with famed designer Paul Poiret, practically invented the vamp in the silent film series Les Vampires, drawing from the bat\u2019s stealthy sense of style. Musidora\u2019s character, Irma Vep (vampire in anagram) creeps around in Poiret\u2019s flesh-tight body suit (recently reimagined in the Alicia Vikander series Irma Vep by Louis Vuitton\u2019s artistic director Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re).<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t Musidora in the literally bat-like getup of \u00a0the film. In Les Vampires, a ballerina (played by Marfa Koutiloff) dies on stage in the fancy-dress wings of a vampire bat, mid-performance, her finger having been pricked in her dressing room by a poisonous ring. (This truly is in the spirit of the vampire bat\u2019s modus operandi of counting on the digits for sustenance: \u201cThey do not seem inclined to attack large animals, and never man,\u201d wrote Augustus C.L. Arnold in 1875, \u201conly while he is sleeping, when they inflict a small wound in the great toe, without awakening him, and suck the blood in such a way, that when the bat withdraws, the wound remains open, and still continues to bleed.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Certainly among the most stylishly repulsive vamps in history are \u201cthe Vudkodlaks of the Servians\u201d as described under the heading \u201cvampire\u201d in Alden\u2019s Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language in 1892. They were \u201cparticularly fond of the blood of young girls. 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