In Spain and Italy, aristocrats are called "blue bloods", a term used to describe unmixed and noble lineage (this is due to the paleness of the nobility's skin from not laboring under the sun, which allowed the blue veins in their arm to be very clear to the eye), but that is not the case here at all.
The "blue blood" here is a famous joke... or rather, an infamous pun.
For example, there is one in which the floor of a school is covered with blue blood, and when the student licks it..., and another in which a man is taken to a dark room with the curtains closed even though it is daytime, and is forced to drink a drink by a vampire-like figure... The story is supposed to be scary in the first half, and then the story ends with a punchline, or it could be as simple as Dracula drinking blue blood and saying, "Goo~d blood!"
There are numerous variants circulating around, but they all have the same conclusion.
Like this story, many other rumors appear to be horror tales but are actually jokes. For instance: [The next examples are nearly impossible to make into English puns without changing the original meaning, so I'll show the original spellings so you can see the puns]
"Terrifying miso soup [kyoufu no miso-shiru]" (Today is wheat miso soup [kyou, fu no miso-shiru]),
"The evil cross [aku no juujika]" (Open at ten...? [aku no juuji ka...?]),
"A demon's doll [akuma no ningyou]" (Ah! Teddy bear! [a! kuma no ningyou!]),
and so on. All of them are characterized by their extreme silliness.
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