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Vrykolakas

Poznat i kao: 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

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Prvi zapis
1645
Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701
Podrijetlo
Greek
Grčka, Cipar
Što ga uzrokuje
Prokletstvo
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.
Kako postaješ jedan od njih
Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.
Inteligencija
Malo inteligencije
Slabe točke
  • 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

Kad se prvi put pojavio?

Antički svijet
Srednji vijek
1500. – 1899.
1900. – 1967.
1968. – 1999.
2000. – 2009.
2010. do danas
1645

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

terenske bilješke

Što kažu izvori

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

Izvori

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

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Folklor iz istih krajeva

Isto doba: 1500. – 1899.