The initial reference of supernormal powers of vampires is depicted in Bram Stokers Dracula. The power to take any body form by the vampires was first depicted in this novel where Dracula would take any shape like wolf or even become dust and fog. One more attribute of Vampires later used quite frequently and with ingenuity is that of being able to move faster than human and climb walls and sometimes fly.

Go my dear nightingale, fly away back to your world. I can see the day breaking through the distant horizon and I know it's time for you to go. The morning light always fills my veins with the silent poison that I have known better to detest. It's time for you to fly away, and it's time for me to hide.

Two-yards from my glass door there is a garden of high and dense foliage, and the dirt is rich and dark, and there is a birdbath in the house garden, and overhead a blue and tranquil sky-nearly everyday in the summer. Some of the plants grown two stores high, and we have two birdhouses in the garden, and food available, and a variety of small birds fly to and fro-that is, in and out, and lounge about in this free and natural zone, within Lima, Peru, a city of eighty-million people, and five million cars, and smog galore, and a polluted river that runs through the city.