Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The Obur — the gluttonous blood-drinking vampire of Bulgarian folklore, a voracious undead marked by insatiable greed and loud, fiery
The Vukodlak (“wolf-pelt”) — the vampire-werewolf of South Slavic folklore, a being that unites werewolf and vampire: a man who becomes a wolf in life and
The Upyr — the vampire of the East and West Slavs, a powerful reanimated corpse that rises to drink the blood of the living. The Slavic root of the very
The Moroi — the vampire-ghost and life-draining undead of Romanian and Balkan-Slavic folklore, a ghostly cousin of the strigoi that drains the vitality
The Strigoi — the vampire and troubled-undead of Romanian and Balkan-Slavic folklore, a living witch or risen corpse that rises from the grave to drain
The Dhampir — the half-vampire of South Slavic and Balkan folklore, the offspring of a vampire and a human who uniquely can see invisible vampires and has
The Drekavac (“the screamer”) — the shrieking night-monster of South Slavic folklore, often the spirit of a dead unbaptised child, whose terrible
The Cikavac — the strange bird-familiar of Serbian folklore, a long-beaked winged creature hatched by black magic from an egg incubated under the armpit
The Bukavac — the bellowing night-monster of South Slavic folklore, a six-legged, horned, water-dwelling beast that lurks in ponds by day, roars terribly
The Psoglav (“dog-head”) — the monstrous dog-headed, one-eyed cannibal of South Slavic folklore, a man-bodied beast with iron teeth who dwells in caves,