Geraldine is a Vampire!

I'm reading one of my favorite poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel". I enjoy this poem, and have conjured up a fun theory on one of the characters, Geraldine (since it's an unfinished work).

Here its is: Geraldine is a vampire.

As the poem opens, we find a young woman, Ms. Christabel, in the woods outside her fathers' castle, praying on her long-distance lovers' behalf...after midnight.

She spots a bare-footed and distressed girl in the woods; Geraldine. This chick claims to have been abducted so that could be the reason she's barefoot but... its also , like, April so one would think she would've had some shoes on ( unless she's a vampire who wouldn't get cold). Anyway moving on.

Several lines across various stanzas alert me to the fact that shorty is NOT human:

1. She couldn't cross the (iron) threshold of Leoline's castle without help (aka being invited in)
2. The guard dog angrily groans in it's sleep when Geraldine passes (and apparently has never done this before)
3. Geraldine's presence ignites the dying flames of torches
4. She's hot. Several lines in the poem are dedicated to the fact that she's a baddie
5. Christabel starts to eventually feel the evil aura Geraldine is giving off, and even describes her bosom as "old" and "cold". (you know what else is old and cold? Vampires!)
6. We never actually see Geraldine in sunlight...

Well, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck... its probably a vampire.

Lol anyways my entire theory is that she's a vampire sent by Lord Roland to infiltrate and massacre his rival, Sir Leoline and his heirs- in a way that can't be tied back to him.

Thanks for reading!