Vrykolakas

Λέγεται και: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΚατάρα1500–1899

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

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Πρώτη καταγραφή

1645

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

Προέλευση

Greek

Ελλάδα, Κύπρος

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Κατάρα

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.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

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

Ευφυΐα

Κάποια ευφυΐα

Αδύναμα σημεία

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

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Αρχαίος κόσμος

Μεσαίωνας

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

1645

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

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The body does not decay but swells taut like a drum and turns ruddy1 2

The name is borrowed from a Slavic word that originally meant werewolf1 2

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them1 2

Some accounts make it an eater of flesh, especially human livers, rather than a blood-drinker1 2

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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