Motif
Restless dead or vampire
restless_dead_or_vampire
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Vampires and Predatory Dead. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 13793-13940 confidence: high
A cited source says Modern Greek vourkolakas is of Slavonic origin, relates it to Slavic werwolf names such as vlkodlak and vrkolak, and notes Servian vukodlak as a vampire name.
The passage lists terms for vampires and restless dead and describes supposed vampires as targets of staking.
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