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This article undertakes a comparison of the myth of Narcissus and the story by E. T. A. Hoffman entitled "Adventures of a Saint Sylvester Night." In this story an attempt is made to capture a reflection. Georges Dumenzil in his Feast of Immortality had studied variants of the Indo-European myth concerning the conquest of mortality through an ambrosiac drink. Wilgowicz links the spring in the Narcissus myth and the drink offered in the Hoffman story with this theme of ambrosia, the offer of life without end. Another version of the theme is the vampire. While the vampire is so often masculine in recent tradition, the older literary tradition made the vampire female, and this tradition survives in the "vamps" of the cinema. Psychoanalytic treatment of this theme has been rare, although Abraham, A. Green, and Winnicott have dealt with it. The vampire seeks fusion with the other through blood, which is linked to the theme of immortality and to the loss of the mirror reflection. Wilgowicz argues that in the vampire motif we find an attempt to incarnate a mythical being, which denies death as well as the difference between the sexes and the generations.