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Kozlak

Also called: kuzlac, kozlak
Folklore and mythUndeadA bad death or burial

The kozlak is a Dalmatian revenant, the returned corpse of someone who died after a sinful life. It haunts crossroads and burial grounds and is put down with a stake. The record in the source consulted is short. It is one of several regional names for the walking dead along the eastern Adriatic.1

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Origin
Dalmatian (Croatian)
Croatia
What causes it
A bad death or burial
The recently dead who lived sinfully come back.
How you become one
A sinful life.
Weak spots
  • a stake
field notes

What the sources say

1

Known in Dalmatia on the Adriatic coast1

2

It is the recently dead, not the long buried, who return1

3

Associated with crossroads as well as cemeteries1

4

Killed by staking1

5

Listed alongside the mora, a female blood-drinker of the same region1

Sources

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Folklore from the same lands

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725Jure GrandoIstrian (Croatian), 1672PijavicaSlovene and Croatian

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