The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.

Fruit a dehiscent capsule; seeds 0.45–0.60 × 0.25–0.35 mm, ovoid, brown-colored, striate with short pseudotrichomes in longitudinal lines.

A pragmatical pleader, as soon as he has thrown a tiewig over his toupee, [is equalled] to a Coke or a Littleton.

This notion also associates the vampire more directly with the primal uncanny. The long quotation that Moretti uses from Marie Bonaparte's writings on Edgar Allen Poe includes reference to the mythical vagina dentata, the ‘strange’ notion that the vagina ‘is furnished with teeth, and thus a source of danger in being able to bite and castrate’.