Vampire. Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood. (Cf. B16.7.1, E268.)

Motif

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Bloodthirsty revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E251

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Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "vampirisme"
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3543
Greek Fox 278 (Stringes)
Slavic Máchal 231f.
Assyrian Spence 265
India *Thompson-Balys
Indonesian Dixon 231f.
West Indies Flowers 429
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287e
S. Am. Indian (Araucanian) Alexander Lat. Am. 329.
general *Types 307, 363
general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 322 (327 bibliography of literary treatments)
general *v. Negelein ibid. XIV 19
general *Jaworskij ibid. VIII 331
general *Hock Die Vampyrsagen und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1900)
general *Penzer VI 136, X 346 s. v. "vampires", 350 s. v. "Vetala"
general *Fb "blod" IV 47a, "vampyr" IV 361b
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 43, 397 n. 160
general *Havecost Die Vampirsage in England (1914)
general Stetson The Animistic Vampire in New England (AA o.s. IX [1896] 1ff.)
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "Vampire"
general Summers **The Vampire in Europe (London, 1929), **The Vampire, its Kith and Kin (London, 1928)

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