Moonlight Penguin
I think they are just a function of piercing holes into the jugular for a quick blow so that the blood flows easily to be slurped up. I've heard stories where there is also a venom in the vampire's saliva to make wounds heal easily.
Also, the blood goes into the vampires, feeding their near dead cells. Thus, when they are cut, they bleed the blood remaining in them from they fed. Usually in some stories the way vampires are made is that they are bled completely out and at the point of death from insanguination( sp? this computer doesn't have spell check like mine does) they take in their maker's blood that makes them one of the immortal beasts.
I thought it was exsanguination.
Anyway, I remember somewhere that her vampires just have really sharp teeth; not fangs. They just go OM NOM NOM and drink the blood. Where does it go? I have no clue. Why don't they pee? Same thing. How can they survive on blood alone? I also have asked this and have gotten no answer. What is the purpose of fangs? To easily puncture the jugular, to sample the blood with a ganglion of olfactory nerves located directly above the hollow of the fangs to make sure it's pure enough to drink. Afterwords, the blood is drunk. (But that's the explanation I use in my story. I made it up.)
