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Ukrainian folklore also described vampires as having red faces and tiny tails. [60] During cholera epidemics in the 19th century, there were cases of people being burned alive by their neighbors on charges of being vampires. [54] [61] In South Slavic folklore, a vampire was believed to pass through several distinct stages in its development ...
The word dhampir is an Albanian word which in turn is borrowed from Serbo-Croat vampír or its Bulgarian equivalent. [2] The shift v > dh is a feature of Gheg Albanian, [3] [4] but it could also have been encouraged by a folk etymology, connecting it with the Albanian words dhamb 'tooth' and pir 'to drink'.
The Blow Vampire (1706 Kadam, Bohemia) Blutsauger (Germany) – Variant: Blutsäuger; Boo Hag (America) Boraro – Colombian folklore; Brahmaparush (India) Breslan Vampire (17th Century Breslau, Poland) Bruja (Spain and Central America) Bruxa (Portugal) – Males being called Bruxo; the Buckinghamshire Vampire (1196 Buckinghamshire, England)
A lugat or liogat is a vampire-like being in Albanian mythology. [1] [2] According to Orel the etymology "Lugat" is borrowed from Vulgar Latin *lupus peccatus (“false wolf”), though with difficult semantics. They abide in shadows and darkness, especially places that never see sunlight, such as inside water wells, old ruins, and caves.
Burning the exhumed body of a person believed to be a vampire – Vampire, aut. R. de Moraine, 1864 Fight with an upiór – Maciej Sieńczyk Upiór (Tatar language: Убыр (Ubır), Turkish: Ubır, Obur, Obır, (modern Belarusian: вупыр (vupyr), Bulgarian: въпир (văpir), Serbian: вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak: upír, Polish: upiór, wupi, Russian: упырь (upyr ...
The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
A shtriga (Albanian: shtrigë) is a vampiric witch in Albanian mythology and folklore that sucks the blood of infants at night while they sleep, and then transform themselves into a flying insect (traditionally a moth, fly or bee). Only the shtriga herself could cure those she had drained.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1578–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. [1] He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock. [2]