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Sally von Humpeding
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| Name | Salacia Delorisista Amanita Trigestrata Zeldana Malifee...von Humpeding |
| Age | 51 (Thud!) |
| Race | Vampire |
| Occupation | Lance-Constable at the Ankh-Morpork City Watch |
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| Residence | Ankh-Morpork |
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| Books | Thud! |
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Salacia Delorisista Amanita Trigestrata Zeldana Malifee...von Humpeding – her full name being several pages long, better known as Sally – is a vampire from Überwald, aged 51 as of her first appearance in Thud!. The first and, to date, only vampire member of the Watch, she joined over the objections of Sir Samuel Vimes.
Despite her age, she has the appearance of a sixteen-year-old girl. Joining the Watch as a lance constable, she was initially teamed with Sgt. Angua. She is a Black Ribboner, member of the Überwald League of Temperance and a cellist.
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Other people with musical inclinations of a similar name... the original Englebert Humpedinck was an eighteenth century German composer of organ music, generally solemn masses and religious pieces. Considering that an essential feature of every vampire castle is a mighty organ (and if it's by B.S. Johnson, it's a bonus) then this link surely must be noted here. Then there was, and maybe still is, a sub-Tom Jones lounge singer who rose to prominence in the 1960's... at roughly the same time the final incarnation of the Yardbirds chose to take on a noble German name to give it one last shot at fame before packing it in (they chose to become Led Zeppelin, much to the disgust of the von Zeppelin family, who took out injunctions), a then unknown crooner, Alan George Dorsey, [1] working the Northern club circuit, stumbled over the name Englebert Humperdinck, liked it, and assumed it for the stage. There must be something about German names: neither Led Zep nor Humperdinck looked back from that moment on...
