Then they began to materialise till, if God have not taken away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes. There were before me in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when they would have kissed his throat.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 27. Van Helsing watches as before his eyes the wheeling figures of mist and snow materialize into Dracula’s three vampire Brides. They are the same trio that seduced and kissed Jonathan Harker, he says.