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- noun a harmful
undead creature (vampire ) inGreek folklore
Etymologies
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Speaking of, even a werewolf couldn't be safe from becoming a vrykolakas, if you killed the greek werewolf, he could come back as a cross between a vrykolakas and a werewolf!
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Take the vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire.
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Once in existance, the vrykolakas would not bite the neck of his victims to draw blood, rather it would cause epidemics of disease by simply walking around town.
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It would knock on doors, only to dissappear if the person answered on the first knock, but that person would then be condemned to death soon after and would become a vrykolakas themselves.
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The vrykolakas comes into being simply after living a sacrilegious life, or after an excommunication or burial in ground that was not consecrated, or most ominously eating mutton that had been previously tasted by a werewolf.
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The fusion of these two creatures in Greek culture is one of the most fascinating aspects of the vrykolakas-style vampire.
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To this day in certain parts of Greece, people do not answer the door until at least the second knock. poltergeist activity is blamed on the vrykolakas, though that may be off-base in that the poltergeist is likely a completely different phenomenon.
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Speaking of, even a werewolf couldn't be safe from becoming a vrykolakas, if you killed the greek werewolf, he could come back as a cross between a vrykolakas and a werewolf!
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Take the vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire.
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It would knock on doors, only to dissappear if the person answered on the first knock, but that person would then be condemned to death soon after and would become a vrykolakas themselves.
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