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Vrykolakas
Також відомий як: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas
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.12
Перша згадка
1645
Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701Походження
Greek
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Прокляття
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.Як стати одним із них
Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.
Розум
Трохи розуму
Слабкі місця
- 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
Коли він з'явився вперше?
Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701
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