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Vampires This list covers the many types of vampires , vampire-like legendary creatures of global folklore or people that were supposedly vampires. It does not include any vampire that originates in a work of fiction .
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 ...
Tei Pai Wanka - (Wampanoag) Term for swamp lights in Algonquian lore. Enslaved souls of people taken by the Little People who are used to scare people who've done wrong or lure them to their deaths. Vampire; Wanagi- (Lakota) Lakota name for Siouan shadow people. Essentially ghosts. Wewe Gombel; Wili; Will o' the wisp – Jack o lantern (English ...
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.
List of vampires; List of vampiric creatures in folklore; List of dhampirs This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 04:10 (UTC). Text is ...
This is a list of vampires found in literary fiction; film and television; comics and manga; video games and board games; musical theatre, opera and theatre; and originating in folklore or mythology. It does not include the concept of dhampirs .
A psychic vampire is a creature in folklore said to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures. The term can also be used to describe a person who gets increased energy around other people, but leaves those other people exhausted or "drained" of energy. [ 1 ]
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