La Sagenas de Diable, the Devil's Snare

The Devil's Snare (Spanish: la Trampa del Diablo), also known as the Vampire Vine, is the appellation for a cryptobotanical carnivorous plant that reputedly exists in the lands around Lake Nicaragua in Central America. According to an account of the vines, first circulated by William Thomas Stead in a 1891 issue of Review of Reviews (which he, in turn, credited to an unknown issue of H. P. Blavatsky's Lucifer), a Mr. Dunstan encountered them when his dog became entangled and had to be cut free, and, based on observed evidence, concluded that the vines were possessed of suckers that allowed them to drain the blood of their prey (similar to the Arbor Diaboli, the Devil Tree of Mexico).