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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

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintayHabaar1500 ilaa 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

Markii ugu horreysay ee la diiwaangeliyay

1645

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

Asal

Greek

Giriig, Qubrus

Waxa sababa

Habaar

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.

Sida aad mid u noqotid

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

Caqli

Caqli yar

Meelaha daciifka ah

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

Goorma ayuu markii ugu horreysay soo baxay?

Adduunka hore Qarniyadii dhexe 1500 ilaa 1899 1900 ilaa 1967 1968 ilaa 1999 2000 ilaa 2009 2010 ilaa maanta

1645

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

qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

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

Ilaha

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Khuraafaad ka yimid dhulalkaas

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

Isla xilligaas: 1500 ilaa 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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