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Vampir (South Slavic)

又稱: вампир, vampir, vukodlak

The vampir of the Balkans is the original vampire, and in its folk form it is a walking corpse and not a caped aristocrat. It rises from a neighbour's grave, takes forty days to become solid and preys on its family and village until the body is staked, beheaded or burned. Austrian officials documented the belief in occupied Serbia in the 1720s and 1730s, and the word spread across Europe. It is included here as the base tradition from which the literary vampire and the plague-like walking dead both descend.1 2

來對戰

最早紀錄

1725

Brought to European attention by the Austrian reports from Serbia of 1725 and 1732

起源

South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian)

塞爾維亞, 保加利亞, 克羅埃西亞, 波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納

成因

不得好死或下葬不當

A bad life, a bad death or a flawed burial; an animal or bird passing over the corpse was a classic trigger.

如何變成它

Sorcerers, suicides, the excommunicated, the improperly buried and people born with a caul, teeth or a tail were at risk; so was any corpse an animal had stepped over.

智力

有些智力

弱點