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Vrykolakas

इसे यह भी कहते हैं: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

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.12

इससे लड़ें
पहला दर्ज रिकॉर्ड
1645
Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701
मूल
Greek
यूनान, साइप्रस
इसका कारण क्या है
एक श्राप
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.
आप कैसे बनते हैं
Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.
बुद्धि
थोड़ी बुद्धि
कमज़ोरियाँ
  • 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

यह पहली बार कब दिखा?

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

फ़ील्ड नोट्स

स्रोत क्या कहते हैं

1

The body does not decay but swells taut like a drum and turns ruddy12

2

The name is borrowed from a Slavic word that originally meant werewolf12

3

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them12

4

Some accounts make it an eater of flesh, especially human livers, rather than a blood-drinker12

5

During the famine of 1941-42 some Greek families beheaded relatives who had to be buried outside cemeteries, to stop them rising12

स्रोत

  1. Vrykolakas - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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वही युग: 1500 से 1899

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