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Kozlak

Wɔfrɛ no bio: kuzlac, kozlak
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie

The kozlak is a Dalmatian revenant, the returned corpse of someone who died after a sinful life. It haunts crossroads and burial grounds and is put down with a stake. The record in the source consulted is short. It is one of several regional names for the walking dead along the eastern Adriatic.1

Fa ko
Mfiase
Dalmatian (Croatian)
Croatia
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
The recently dead who lived sinfully come back.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A sinful life.
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • a stake
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Known in Dalmatia on the Adriatic coast1

2

It is the recently dead, not the long buried, who return1

3

Associated with crossroads as well as cemeteries1

4

Killed by staking1

5

Listed alongside the mora, a female blood-drinker of the same region1

Fibea

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Ma dɔm no aduane. Dawurubɔ nni hɔ, trackers nni hɔ, onipa baako na ɔtua ho ka. Akyɛdeɛ ma ɛkɔ so wɔ intanɛt so.Ma akyɛdeɛ

Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725Jure GrandoIstrian (Croatian), 1672PijavicaSlovene and Croatian

Bebree a ɛte sɛ yei

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ