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Kozlak

Maqaa biraa: kuzlac, kozlak
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eDu'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa

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

Lolsiisi
Ka'umsa
Dalmatian (Croatian)
Kiroweeshiyaa
Maaltu isa fida
Du'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa
The recently dead who lived sinfully come back.
Akkamitti isa taata
A sinful life.
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • a stake
yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Maddoota

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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

Kan akkasii dabalataa

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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