The vampire may also transform himself into a mist or dust cloud drifting in the air through only the oldest and most powerful vampires or Vampire Regents are known to assume such forms.

The vampire may alter his size within certain limits, becoming either larger or smaller so that he can easily go out from his grave or coffin .

The vampire may climb walls much like a large insect. He may climb normally or with his head toward the ground much like a spider.

Vampires can often take away a person's voice, strength, and beauty. This might be an imaginative extrapolation of the old Romanian belief that "live vampires" (*strigoi vii*) or persons born destined to become undead vampires (*strigoi morti*), developed the power while still alive to rob vitality or appearances from other living beings and to transfer them to another being, sometimes themselves.

Montague Summers also wrote in “The Vampire in Europe” that the Romanian vampire had the abilility

"to gather the 'power' of beauty, which he sold for money, and here in fact we have the regular love charms. These female vampires are generally of a dry burning skin and a notably florid complexion. The men are bald and distinguished by peculiarly piercing eyes."