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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

E boetse e bitswa: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengThohako1500 ho isa 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

E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele

1645

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

Tshimoloho

Greek

Gerike, Cyprus

Se e bakang

Thohako

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.

Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng

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

Bohlale

Bohlale bo itseng

Dintlha tse fokolang

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

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholo Mehla e Bohareng 1500 ho isa 1899 1900 ho isa 1967 1968 ho isa 1999 2000 ho isa 2009 2010 ho fihlela kajeno

1645

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Mehlodi

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

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

Mehla e tshwanang: 1500 ho isa 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

Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho