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Strigòi is a Romanian word that originated from a root related to the Latin terms strix or striga with the addition of the augmentative suffix "-oi" (feminine "-oaică"). [3] [4] Otila Hedeşan notes that the same augmentative suffix appears in the related terms moroi and bosorcoi (borrowed from Hungarian boszorka) and considers this parallel derivation to indicate membership in the same ...
In northern India, there is the BrahmarākŞhasa, a vampire-like creature with a head encircled by intestines and a skull from which it drank blood. Japan has no native legends about vampires. However some Japanese mythical creatures bear some similarities to vampires, such as the Nure-onna who is a snake-like woman that feasts on human blood.
The living vampire is in general the illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons, but even a flawless pedigree will not ensure anyone against the intrusion of a vampire into his family vault, since every person killed by a nosferatu becomes likewise a vampire after death, and will continue to suck the blood of other innocent people till ...
Based on Vlad the Impaler, the real-life Romanian prince with a thirst for bloody warfare, Stoker's Count Dracula is a far cry from Byron's sexy, womanizing vampire.
A moroi (sometimes moroii in modern fiction; pl. moroi) is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore.A female moroi is called a moroaică (pl. moroaice).In some versions, a moroi is a phantom of a dead person which leaves the grave to draw energy from the living.
The Melrose Vampire – Melrose Abby, Scotland; Melusine – France; The Mikonos Vampire – Greece 1702; Mmbyu – India also spelled or an early form of: Pocu Pati; Moroi - Romania; Mosquito Man - Native American, Pacific; Northwest Moskitto - North America; Mullo – Romani the plural being Mulé, with the following spelling variation: Mullo ...
Some fans travel to Transylvania in Romania to get closer to the lore and to Count Dracula himself. In 2007, Castle Dracula (Castle Bran) in Transylvania was briefly for sale for the low-low price ...
The appearance and calls of owls, such as the Eurasian scops owl, may have influenced Greek ideas of the blood-drinking strix. "Le Stryge" Chimera overlooks Paris from atop Notre-Dame de Paris . The strix (plural striges or strixes ), in the mythology of classical antiquity , was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis , that fed on ...