Upiór
Upiór is the Polish form of the old East and West Slavic name for a corpse that leaves its grave, a close relative of the word 'vampire'. In village belief it is less an aristocratic bloodsucker than a decaying neighbour who suffocates sleepers, kills livestock and sometimes just comes home to work. Apotropaic burials across Poland and Ukraine, with severed heads, nailed bodies and objects in the mouth, reflect the measures taken against it. It is the eastern European walking dead in its original, pre-literary form.12
- beheading, with the head placed between the legs
- nailing the corpse to the coffin or burying it face down
- burning
- poppy seeds or knotted nets in the grave to keep it occupied
- hawthorn, blackthorn or wild rose in the coffin
- cockcrow
Yaushe ya fara bayyana?
1100The 'Word of Saint Grigoriy', dated between the 11th and 13th centuries, mentions offerings to upyri
Abin da tushe suka ce
Tushe
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Nachzehrer
Strzyga
Johannes Cuntius
Pień padlocked burial
Shoemaker of Breslau
Zalozhnye pokoiniki
Draugr
Vetala
Glámr
Revenant (medieval England)
Asvith
Berwick revenant