Animals possessed by demons

[Memphremagog]

In the cassette about the Highgate Vampire and its eventual exorcism and destruction the narrator (I presume to be +Manchester) states at the end that care must be taken not to allow any animal like a mouse or bird to escape. How can this be prevented and is it a real threat if the demon does escape via an animal. I mean demons can not really be destroyed like an animal or mortal human. Is it that a demon in possession of a mouse or bird is really more dangerous than one in its naturally spiritual existence? I know that good angels are content with purely spiritual existence but that fallen angels, demons, are not. They prefer to occupy some corporeal entity. But does it matter if a bat or mole is possessed? I have also never heard of a possessed animal although I suppose it is certainly possible. And finally are there any reports of vampiric animals, excepting of course the well known vampire bat, that attack people. Thank you. Memphremagog.

[Vampirologist]

That quote comes directly from +Montague Summers' THE VAMPIRE: HIS KITH & KIN (1928) and is reiterated on pages 19-20 of THE VAMPIRE HUNTER'S HANDBOOK (1997) where its origin is credited.

Demons, of course, cannot be destroyed as such. Their use of a corporeal host of any kind to effect an escape during exorcism, however, is well chronicled.

The author of THE VAMPIRE HUNTER'S HANDBOOK advises that the cremated ashes of the exorcised remains should be "scattered to the winds, or cast into a river swiftly flowing to the sea."

Reports of all manner of infested metamorphosing shapes and creatures plague the history of the vampire.