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The strigoi are said to be bald on top of the head, do not eat garlic and onions, avoid incense, and towards the feast of Saint Andrew they sleep outdoors. Their spine is elongated in the shape of a tail, covered with hair. If there is a drought in a village, it means that there is a strigoi that prevents the rains.
Bantu (India) – There are three main kinds of this vampire including: Bantu Dodong; Bantu Parl; Bantu Saburo; Baobhan Sith (Highlands of Scotland) Beatha Greimach, lit. "the breath thief" (Highlands of Scotland) Berbalang (Philippines) The Berwick Vampire (England [17]) Bezkost (Slavic) Bhayangkara ; Bhūta (India) Bibi (the Balkans)
Live strigoi became revenants after their death, but there were also many other ways of a person becoming a vampire. A person born with a caul , an extra nipple, a tail, or extra hair [ 40 ] was doomed to become a vampire.
There are striges, vultures, ... [42] strigoaică is the name of the Romanian feminine vampire, [43] and strigoi is the Romanian male vampire. [44]
The legend tells that, for 16 years after his death, Jure would arise from his grave by night and terrorize the village. [4] The village priest, named Giorgio, who had buried Jure sixteen years previously discovered that at night, somebody would knock on the doors around the village and on whichever door he knocked, someone from that house would die within the next few days.
The Underground adventure game Ben Jordan: Case 3 features a Strigoi who goes by the name of Zortherus. In the Disgaea video game series, there is a class of vampires called Strigoi. In the 2008 video game Soul Calibur 4, the French fencer (and vampire) Raphael Sorel has a move called the Strigoi Envelopment.
But within Baltimore's tight-knit Italian community, there's loyalty to Nick Mangione and his memory. Life-long Little Italy resident, 83-year-old Mary Ann Campanella, called him an "excellent man
Pricolici, similar to Strigoi, but for worse souls; Samca, an evil spirit, said to curse children and pregnant women with illness; Spiriduş, a domestic spirit/familiar that when summoned, acts as an intermediate between the devil and the master of the home; Stafie, spirits of the dead who are bound to a place in which they lived in life; a ...