Talking Mythology: Little People

There are indeed some distant similarities, especially the aspect with the allure and the deadliness. I cannot really relate to how a corpse can be attractive though.
I can see a connection with sex and neck biting if you leave out the blood of course. Interesting stories, you humans have.

Ugh, that is maybe where the An'dejids come from? They are sneaking through ships and open valves or losen screws, little teeth gnawing on plating, causing rust with their acid saliva. You could hear them at night, giggling and scratching in tubes and shafts.

Yes. That is where the An'dejid's came from. Like everything else, they were recycled and re-used for flotilla life.

There's often an association between 'monsters' and sex appeal, especially in times/places where more conservative mores dominate - if not in their original form, it still only takes one influential re-interpretation in the right social context to change the face of a myth. A monster like you describe, sensual but predatory and amoral - that can represent freedom from social constraints on sexuality, sexual expression based solely on desire and drive, while the fact that the embodiment of those desires is the villain of the piece, and ultimately defeated, acts as a salve to any moral qualms we may have in taking vicarious pleasure from that aspect of their behaviour.

Not sure about the biting, I'll get back to you on that. Maybe simply utilising the traits this vampire myth already had? Biting isn't that far removed from kissing, it could easily have symbolic use in that sense; allowing access to one's neck can be a submissive posture; piercing the skin could be symbolic penetration; drinking blood is symbolically (or literally, for vampires? I've got an idea I read that somewhere) taking sustenance from the victim, both an expression of domination and a taboo deconstruction of the more of equality; and so on. I wouldn't be enormously surprised if these sexualised vampire tales came into their own at a time when 'accepted' expressions of sexual desire were quite constrained.

Probably why I've always liked Eleventh Age Dekuuna romances - it's not the impulsive heroines themselves so much, it's that they're in a setting where everything must be 'proper', and they don't care.

(Ana did have a client on Omega once request to be hung upside-down and bled to fill a wine glass for her to drink from. I can't actually remember if she said that was a human or not, but in general terms none of that's especially species-specific.)

(Obviously she didn't.)