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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
That said, there certainly are people who consider themselves vampires. And, yes, they drink blood. ... And while vampire folklore isn't really new, the word “vampire” is, according to Laycock.
In Balkan folklore, a dhampir (Albanian pronunciation:) is a mythical creature that is the result of a union between a vampire and a human.This union was usually between male vampires and female humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male humans being rare.
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