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Vrykolakas

Yitwa kandi: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaUmuvumo1500 kugeza 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

Bashyire ku murwano

Yanditswe bwa mbere

1645

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

Inkomoko

Greek

Ubugereki, Shipure

Icyayiteye

Umuvumo

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.

Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi

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

Ubwenge

Ifite ubwenge buke

Intege nke

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

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya kera Ibihe byo hagati 1500 kugeza 1899 1900 kugeza 1967 1968 kugeza 1999 2000 kugeza 2009 2010 kugeza ubu

1645

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

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

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

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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

Ibihe bimwe: 1500 kugeza 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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