 Almost every nation has associated blood drinking with some kind of revenant or demon , or in some cases a deity . In India , for example , tales of vetālas , ghoul @-@ like beings that inhabit corpses , have been compiled in the Baitāl Pacīsī ; a prominent story in the Kathāsaritsāgara tells of King Vikramāditya and his nightly quests to capture an elusive one . Piśāca , the returned spirits of evil @-@ doers or those who died insane , also bear vampiric attributes . 
