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