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18 chronicles
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Shtriga

The Shtriga — the witch-vampire of Albanian and Balkan folklore, a female undead-witch who by night drinks the blood of sleeping children, then flies away

Slavic Mythology · 29 September 2026

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Pricolici

The Pricolici — the werewolf-revenant of Romanian and Balkan-Slavic folklore, an undead that rises from the grave as a monstrous wolf to savage and kill

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Pijavica

The Pijavica (“the leech”) — the blood-drinking vampire of South Slavic folklore, an undead that rises from the grave to suck the blood of the living,

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Obur

The Obur — the gluttonous blood-drinking vampire of Bulgarian folklore, a voracious undead marked by insatiable greed and loud, fiery

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Vukodlak

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

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Upyr

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

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Moroi

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

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Strigoi

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

Slavic Mythology · 28 September 2026

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Pocong

Pocong

The Pocong, a famous shroud-ghost of Indonesian and Malay folklore — the spirit of a dead person still wrapped in the Muslim burial shroud, bound at head,

Southeast Asian · 08 September 2026

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Nachzehrer

Nachzehrer

The Nachzehrer, a kind of undead revenant of German and Slavic-border folklore — a corpse that chews and devours its own shroud and flesh in the grave,

Norse & Germanic · 31 August 2026

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Jiangshi

Jiangshi

Discover the Jiangshi, China’s hopping corpse-vampire — why it leaps, how it drains the living of qi, the talismans and sticky rice that stop it, and its

Chinese Mythology · 28 August 2026

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Edimmu

Edimmu

Discover the Edimmu, the restless ghost of Akkadian and Babylonian belief — the unburied or neglected dead who seize the living with sickness until

Mesopotamian & Near Eastern · 08 August 2026

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Gjenganger

Gjenganger

Discover the Gjenganger, the corporeal walking dead of Scandinavian folklore — a reanimated corpse risen from the grave to harm the living, heir of the

Norse & Germanic · 28 July 2026

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Mummy

Mummy

The myth of the Mummy: the preserved embalmed body of the ancient Egyptian dead, created through mummification to preserve the body for eternal life, and

Egyptian Mythology · 18 July 2026

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Vetala

Vetala

The vetala — the corpse-animating spirit of Hindu myth that hangs inverted in cremation grounds and knows past and future. Famed as the riddle-telling

Hindu Mythology · 13 July 2026

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Brahmaparusha

Brahmaparusha

The brahmaparusha — a savage blood-drinking demon-ghoul of the Hindu cremation ground that wears its victims' entrails and drinks from human skulls, among

Hindu Mythology · 13 July 2026

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Chedipe

Chedipe

The chedipe — a witch-vampire of Andhra (Telugu) folklore who rides a tiger naked through the night and drains the blood and vitality of sleeping men,

Hindu Mythology · 13 July 2026

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Vampire

Vampire

The Vampire, the blood-drinking undead of European legend — a corpse that rises from the grave by night to feed on the blood of the living, spreading

Arthurian & Medieval European · 02 July 2026

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