The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
In south Slavonic folklore, the spirit of a dead person, or a corpse revived by an evil spirit.
Vampires arise by night from graves and suck people’s blood. In the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—for example, in E.T.A.Hoffmann and Gogol—vampires became more and more demonic in character: it is enough to think of the film figure of Dracula. In Greek folklore the → Lamia correspond to the vampires.
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