Vrykolakas

Tinatawag ding: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

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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

⚔️ Labanan ito

Unang naitala

1645

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

Pinagmulan

Greek

Greece, Cyprus

Ano ang sanhi

Isang sumpa

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.

Paano ka magiging isa

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

Talino

May kaunting talino

Mga kahinaan

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

Kailan ito unang lumitaw?

Sinaunang mundo

Gitnang Panahon

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2010 hanggang ngayon

1645

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

mga tala sa field

Ano ang sabi ng mga pinagmulan

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

Mga pinagmulan

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