Vrykolakas

Juga dipanggil: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Cerita rakyat dan mitosMayat hidupSumpahan1500 hingga 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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Pertama direkodkan

1645

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

Asal usul

Greek

Greece, Cyprus

Apa yang menyebabkannya

Sumpahan

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.

Cara anda menjadi satu

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

Kecerdasan

Sedikit kecerdasan

Kelemahan

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

Bilakah ia mula muncul?

Dunia purba

Zaman Pertengahan

1500 hingga 1899

1900 hingga 1967

1968 hingga 1999

2000 hingga 2009

2010 hingga kini

1645

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

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Apa kata sumber

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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