Vrykolakas

Juga disebut: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Folklor dan mitosUndeadSebuah kutukan1500 sampai 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

Lawan dia

Pertama tercatat

1645

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

Asal

Greek

Yunani, Siprus

Penyebabnya

Sebuah kutukan

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.

Cara menjadi zombi

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

Kecerdasan

Agak cerdas

Titik lemah

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

Kapan pertama kali muncul?

Dunia kuno Abad Pertengahan 1500 sampai 1899 1900 sampai 1967 1968 sampai 1999 2000 sampai 2009 2010 sampai sekarang

1645

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

catatan lapangan

Kata sumber

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

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

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them1 2

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

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

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