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Vrykolakas

También llamado: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas
Folclore y mitosNo muertoUna maldiciónDe 1500 a 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.12

⚔️ Combatirlo
Primer registro
1645
Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701
Origen
Greek
Grecia, Chipre
Qué lo causa
Una maldición
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.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • 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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Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1645

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The body does not decay but swells taut like a drum and turns ruddy12

2

The name is borrowed from a Slavic word that originally meant werewolf12

3

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them12

4

Some accounts make it an eater of flesh, especially human livers, rather than a blood-drinker12

5

During the famine of 1941-42 some Greek families beheaded relatives who had to be buried outside cemeteries, to stop them rising12

Fuentes

  1. Vrykolakas - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Folclore de las mismas tierras

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150PolykritosAncient Greek, 150

Misma época: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732