Motif
vampire or demon-animated corpse wandering by night
vampire_or_demon_animated_corpse_wandering_by_night
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
-
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13171-13318 confidence: high
The narrator says such night-wandering corpses are generally wizards or other sinners; demons enter them, producing the Vampire thirsting for blood, and Slavonic corpses value coffin-lids as well as shrouds.
The narrator describes corpses of wizards or sinners leaving graves at night, entered by demons, and going forth as Vampires thirsting for blood.
read in the book →