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Illustration of Vrykolakas — Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.

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Vrykolakas

Wi'aama fahin: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Haala e tuugnorgalMaayɓe yaaɗooɓeDayyaare (kolliri)1500 haa 1899

The vrykolakas is the Greek undead: an undecayed, bloated corpse that walks out of its grave to plague its village. Seventeenth-century churchmen and travellers described islanders exhuming and burning suspect bodies, and Tournefort's eyewitness account of such a case on Mykonos became famous across Europe. Greek and Ottoman-era graves with corpses nailed or weighted down show how old and how practical the fear was. Its contagious, door-to-door spread makes it one of the closest folkloric relatives of the modern zombie plague.1 2

Artii winndaago

1645

Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701

Ƴiiɗal

Greek

Gerees, Siipr

Ko waɗi ɗum

Dayyaare (kolliri)

Greek tradition blames excommunication above all, along with grave sin, a parent's curse, burial in unconsecrated ground or an animal jumping over the corpse.

No a wonata gooto

Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.

Hakkiilo

Woodi seyo hakkiilo

Ñaawooje

cremation
exorcism by a priest
impaling, beheading or cutting up the corpse
opening the grave on a Saturday, when it is at rest
never answering a door on the first knock

Ndey ɗum artii hollugo?

Aduna ɓiɗɗo Jamaanu Hakkunde 1500 haa 1899 1900 haa 1967 1968 haa 1999 2000 haa 2009 2010 haa ñalnde hannde

1645

Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701

winndaa ɗo nokku

Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i

1

The body does not decay but swells taut like a drum and turns ruddy1 2

2

The name is borrowed from a Slavic word that originally meant werewolf1 2

3

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them1 2

4

Some accounts make it an eater of flesh, especially human livers, rather than a blood-drinker1 2

5

During the famine of 1941-42 some Greek families beheaded relatives who had to be buried outside cemeteries, to stop them rising1 2

Sorsi

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Haala diga leydi gooto

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61

PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150

The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170

Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701

BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

PolykritosAncient Greek, 150

Jamaanu gooto: 1500 haa 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

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