Kappa: They are as close as any Japanese monster gets to being a vampire. They are unattractive human-like children with greenish yellow skin, webbed fingers and toes, somewhat like a monkey with a long nose and round eyes. They have shells like tortoises, smell like fish and have concave heads which holds water. If spilled, it causes the Kappa to lose its strength. They feed from the edge of water, pulling creatures in and sucking the victoms blood out through their anuses.

Kathakano: A Crete vampire which is much like a generic vampire. It can be killed by chopping the head off and boiling it in vinegar.

Kasha: Japanese. A Vampire who feeds by removing a corpse from its grave or before it is cremated, and devours them.

Kindred: Vampires are all kindred.

Kozlak: A Dalamtian Vampire about whom very little is known. It is prevalent among Croat beliefs.

Krasyy: Originating in Thai, they are old women who fly around at night eating babies.

Kuang-shi: Chinese. This Vampire, caused by demonic poession of a recently deceased corpse, has a terrifying apperance; as it matures it gains new skills, and the elder among this type is rumoured to have the ability to fly.

Lamia: Demons that feed off of newborns. In Hebrew lore they are represented by Lilith, Adams first wife who was punished for refusing to be submissive and have sex lying on her back...She is said to be the first of the Vampires and according to the book of Nod...she seduces Caine and makes him a Vampire also.

Lamiai: Named after the Lamia, these greek demonic beings would often suck the blood of young children. They have the power to change their shapes and become beautiful young maidens in order to attract and seduce young men.

Lampir: See Vrykolakas.

Langsuyar: A Malaysian woman of great beauty who bore a stillborn child. When told of the childs condition she became shocked, and after coming out of her stupor she clapped her hands and fly into a nearby tree. She is seen there every so often wearing a green robe. She has long fingernails and ankle-length black hair. The hair hid an orifice in her neck with which she uses to suck the blood of children. To prevent a woman from becoming a Langsuyar, glass beads would be placed in her mouth to prevent banshee-like screams, eggs under her arms and needles in her palms to prevent flying. It is supposedly possible to tame a Langsuyar. The stillborn child of the Langsuyar is called a Pontianak.

Leanhaum-shee: Irish. A fairy mistress who engages in Vampiric activities. She uses her incredible beauty to lure men to her side and then uses her charms to control them. The victim would then waste away as she slowly drains away his lifes essence through exhaustive love making.

Lidérc: A Hungarian Succubus-like creature. They can appear as a person, animal or shining light. They do not have the abillity to change their shape, but rather exist in all shapes at once, choosing which form an observer might see it in. It attacks its victims the same way a Succubus might.

Living Vampires: Living humans who practice vampiric acts, such as drinking blood, in order to satisfy an emotional need, but some claim that the blood is not necessary to sustain their health. People who choose this lifestlye often choose to dress in black clothing or formal attire, sleep in coffins and advoid sunlight. The term Living Vampire is usually applied only to those who wish to call themselves such, as people who have a blood fetish will often take offense at being labeled as such.

Lobishomen: A Vampire which attacks women and turns them into nymphomaniacs. Also known as werewolves.

Loogaroo: A West Indies vampire. A woman who made a pact with the devil.

Lugat: Albanian. A reasonably harmless Vampire who only feeds on its victims for a short time, but does not actually kill them

Maneden: A creature that dwelt in a wild pandanus plant. If a human attacked the plant, the creature would retaliate by attaching itself to a man's elbow (or a woman's nipple) where it sucked his blood until he gave something in substitution, such as a nut.

Mara: Slavic. Also found in the legends of the Kashube people of Canada, this Vampire is said to be the spirit of an unbaptized dead girl. She is considered a terrible night visitor who crushes and oppresses her victims. In the Slavic legend, once the Mara drinks the blood of a man she falls in love with him and will return to plauge his slumbers until his death. She is also said to be fond of feeding on the blood of children.

Masan: India. This Vampire is usually the ghost of a child who delights in tormenting and killing other children. The Masan is able to curse a child who walks in its shadow, and will also follow home women who allow their gowns to drag on the ground over its shadow.

Masani: India. A female Vampire said to be the spirit of burial grounds. She appears as black, she conducts her hunts by night, beginning when she emerges from a funeral pyre. Anyone unluky enough to pass by the burial site will be attacked.

Mormo: Greek. In mythology, this Vampire is a servant of the goddess Hecate. It is considered a terrible denzien of the underworld.

Moroii: Romania. A living Vampire, either male or female, who exhibits most of the characteristics of a Strigoii.

Mullo: A Gypsy Vampire whose name means "living Dead". They are restless spirits that rise from their graves and reek havoc on those they did not like in life.

Muroni: Romania. This Vampire can be found in the Wallachia region, and has the ability to change itself into a variety of different animal forms. While assuming these forms the Muroni can kill easily, with misleading signs of attack being left.

Nachzehrer: When in its grave, this Vampire would hold the thumb of one hand with the other, its left eye would be open, and it emited a grunting sound as it chewed on its shroud in the tomb.

Neuntöter: A Vampire which spreads plague.

Nelapsi: Slovak. This Vampire is able to massacre entire villages in a single visit, possessing the ability to kill with a single glance.

Nora: Known mainly in Hungary, it is a small bald humanoid that moves on all fours and is supposedly invisible. He attacked its victoms by jumping on them and sucking on their breasts.

Nosferatu: A Romanian word meaning Undead.

Nosferatu exemplify the disease aspect of the vampire legend, the carrier and slave. Carriers live longer, moving from area to area, spreading the disease to slaves. The disease is passed by a carrier, draining the blood from a victim. After a short period of time, the corpse will revive with a massive desire for blood. Each victim of a slave in turn becomes a slave on death. This kind of epidemic can spread very rapidly as carriers are created at random. One slave in a hundred will become a carrier if it lives long enough.

Carriers generally live a long time and gradually become less human. They become of the ratty, pale and clawed variety, often betraying the effects of disease. Slaves often don't live long enough to develop the same signs of their nature, but will end up that way if they do survive. Carriers remain about as intelligent as they were in life whereas slaves have notably less intellect. Those destined to become carriers slowly regain their minds over the course of a few days.

Nosferatu can be killed by fire. Sunlight irritates their eyes, and slaves find that they burn in strong light, so they only move at night. Carriers are not too good at blending in with society, so it is easier at night. Lasers or plasma weapons work just as well as fire, though the flamethrower is often the chosen weapon for facing these beasts.

Obayifo: More of a witch than vampire, this magic-made being leaves its body at night in the form of a glowing ball, and attacked people, especially children, and sucks their blood. It will sometimes also suck the juice from fruits and vegetables.

Obur: Also possibly as the Krvopijac, the Obur are Bulgarian. It was a gluttonous blood drinker capable of creating noises like a firecracker. It also has the ability to move objects like a poltergeist.

Ohyn: Polish. This Vampire is caused by the presence of teeth and a caul at birth.

Pacu Pati: India. This powerful Vampire is deemed lord of all beings of mischief. It is seen at night in cemetries and palces of execution.

Pelesit: A Malaysian vampiric creature that took the form of a house cricket. If someone was being attacked by a Polong, the pelesit generally accompanied it. The Pelesit would arrive before the Polong, enter the victim's body, and prepare the way for the Polong.

Penanggalan: All female, their heads were separated from their bodies and their intestines dangled down. They live in trees flying from house to house, sucking the blood of newborns, sometimes even their mothers.

Pijavica: Slovenian. This Vampire is created as a result of evils perpetrated during a persons mortal life, particularly incest, which is guaranteed to cause ones return as a member of the undead. It generally feeds on relatives or descendents.

Pisachas: Originating in India, the word literally means "eaters of raw flesh". Their appearance is hideous and very bloodthirsty. They are supposedly products of the anger of the deity Brahma.

Polong: A very small Malaysian female (1 inch tall) which was believed to be a witch's familiar. In return for daily blood from the witch, the Polong would perform many tasks, including attacking the enemies of the witch.

Pontianak: A Malaysian Langsuyar's stillborn child. It was believed to take the form of a night owl. To prevent a deceased baby from becoming a Pontianak it was treated like the Langsuyar.

Psychic Vampire: A living being which sustains its life, way of life or own emotional state by draining the energy, emotions or life from humans.

Raksasa: A nighttime Indian demon which attacks children and brides. They are able to shapeshift into animals or acquaintances.

Rakshasas: (Rakshasas, m. Rakshasis, f.) Demi-gods who do not interact directly with the populace, but their exploits are told as legends. Like vampires, they walked the night, had fangs, drank blood and preferred to attack infants and pregnant women.

Ramanga: Madagascarian. A living Vampire who is servant to the tribal elders. The Ramanga would consume the nail clippings and spilled blood of the noble members of the tribe.

Redcaps: This is a Scottish malignant spirit who haunted abandoned castles and other places where violence had occurred. If one slept in a spot haunted by the redcap, it would attempt to dip its cap in human blood. It could easily be driven off with a word from the Bible or a cross.

Strigoiu: A Vampire that lives in abandoned houses.

Strigoi: Another Romanian name for Vampire applied to the returning dead.

Spirit Vampires: They spread like Nosferatu but seem to spring up spontaneously and are not easy be rid of. Spirit Vampires are created when a psychopathic type dies with enough willpower to stay in the mortal world. The creature forms following burial, solidifying out of psychic energy after nightfall. It looks exactly like the human who formed it, and as long as the human's body remains intact, the vampire will continue to pray on the local populace. Each victim who dies also becomes a vampire, and the contagion spreads.

The creature is responsible for maintaining the body by drinking the blood of living humans and returning with the extracted energy before morning. With the sunrise, the creature evaporates and loses the accumulated life energy. If the body fails to get enough energy for more than a week, it rapidly becomesnothing. The creature itself can be scared off inflicting damage or the oncoming dawn, but it doesn't really exist so it ca not be killed. The only way to stop a Spirit Vampire is to stake the body and then toast it. Killing the original vampire will lay all of them to rest, but killing any others just stops that one.

Sire: The Vampire who embraces some person; the maker of another Vampire; parent Vampire. Female Vampires are also known as called sires.

Siring: Embracing and turning someone into a vampire.

Stregoni benefici: Italian. This Vampire is supposedly on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil Vampires.

Striges: A female Witch-Vampire who takes the shape of a crow and drinks the blood of humans. The Striges is classified as living Vampire.

Succubus/Incubus: A race in Europe which is considered vampiric. The general feeding style involves engaging in sexual relations with their victim, exhausting them and then feeding on the energy released during sex. They may enter homes uninvited and can take on the appearance of other persons. They will often visit the same victim more than once. The victim of a Succubus will experience the visits as dreams. The male version of a Succubus is an Incubus.

Sukuyan: Vampires which come from Trinidad and resemble the Loogaroo. It leaves its skin at night and travels as a blue ball of light in search of blood. If caught, a sukuyan would undergo a transformation into an animal, and without its skin would be unable to resume humanoid form.

Talamaur: Australia. This living Vampire is able to communicate with the spirit world, making any spirit its servant, which would then decend among the living. Some Talamaur are able to send out their soul and drain the remaining life essence from a fresh corpse.

Tanggal: Coming form Indonesia, it is a flying head(s) dragging it entrails behind it.

Tengu: A Japanese bird-like vampire demon.

Tenatz: Originating in Montenegro, they are said to be the bodies of deceased people taken over by spirits. They would roam the night, draining sleeping people of their blood. They are able to change into mice in order to enter and exit their gravesites.

The Children of Cain: This group believes that vampires (vampyr in particular) were born of Cain, first son of Adam, the first murderer. They are wrong, but mythology is like that. The Cainites try to attone for the sins of vampires by avoiding human victims and destroying 'evil' vampires. This makes them the mortal enemies of the Lilim, but they mostly try to stay hidden. A specific sect within the Cainites deals with taking out Lilim groups. They are called in by other members when a group is discovered. The Cainites are one of the main groups responsible for keeping Lilim and Nosferatu under control.

The Lilim: The Children of Lilith are a pseudo-religious sect worshipping Lilith. Its members are known as Lilim. Lilim tend to be either vampyr or demons, but some humans are members, often prior to becoming a vampyr. Vampyr Lilim sacrifice some of the power they gain from victims to Lilith's worship, which increase her power. Her demons are the deal-working variety, and mostly female.

Tlaciques: Mexico. This Vampiric witches can be found among the Nahuatl Indians. They are able to become ball of flame or take the form of a turkey; it was in this form that they could feed unnoticed.

Tlahuelpuchi: Usually female, these Aztecan's supposedly have the ability to shapeshift into various animals and attack people, most often infants, and drink their blood. The most common was to change into a turkey, but dogs, cats, buzzards and others were also reported.

Ubour: Bulgarian. This Vampire is created when a person dies violently or the spirit refuses to leave the body. The corpse is buried and remains so for forty days, at which time it will rise and cause mischief. It will not generally drink blood until its other sources of nourishment are gone, which includes the consumption of regular food, thus the attacking of humans rarely occurs. It is also said that when the Ubour moves around, sparks are created.

Upior: Polish name for Vampire.

Upír: This vampire was thought to have had two souls: a vampire was a corpse animated by one of the souls, the lesser soul, that remained in the body after death. It had two hearts, and was known to have its eyes open while in the grave, two curls in its hair and various other vampiric signs. Also known as nelapsi.

Upierczi: Vampires who originate in Poland and Russia, also called Viesczy. They have a sting under the tongue instead of the fangs and are active from noon to midnight. They can only be destroyed by burning. When burned, the body will burst, giving rise to hundreds of small, disgusting animals (maggots, rats, etc.). If any of these creatures escape then the Upierczi's spirit will escape too and return later for revenge.

Upirina: See Vrykolakas.

Upyr: Russian. This Vampire is considered extremely vicious; it will first attack children and then continue by killing the parents. As with the Upier, the Upyr rises during the day and sleeps at night, and in doing so holds a fairly human appearance.

Ustrel: A Bulgarian vampire whose birth had been on a Saturday but died before its baptism. On the ninth day of its burial, it is believed to rise from the grave and attack local sheep and cattle, draining their blood. If an Ustrel was attacking a community's livestock, one could hire a vampirdzhija, or vampire hunter. This person had an ability to see the Ustrels, and could tell if there was an Ustrel in the community.

Utukku: Babylonian. This Vampire spirit, sometimes seen as a demon, is belived to be the spirit of a recently deceased person that has returned from the grave for some unknown reason.

Vampire: An animated corpse that drinks blood in order to sustain itself.
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A human, creature, spirit or other entity that drains anything-- blood, energy, etc.-- from humans or animals to sustain its way of life.

Vampirism: The act of taking fluid or energy from another person.

Vampir: Hungarian name for Vampire.

These are the more classical Gothic vampires, and probably the most human of the supernatural beings. Vampyr follow sex-and-death vampirism, they seduce their victims before killing them.

Vampyr are formed by ingesting the blood of another vampyr, this brings on a progressive degeneration of the vampyr-to-be. The degeneration appears to be a virulent disease, with affects similar to severe anemia. After a relatively short period, the 'victim' will appear to die and return to life on the next nightfall. Thus, the new vampyr is born.

Generally, the requirement for human blood turns the new vampyr to a life that most people describe as evil. Lone vampyr tend to end up being killed within a month or so. There are a couple of groups of vampyr who can generally keep their members alive for a longer time: the Lilim (Children of Lilith) and the Children of Cain.

Vampyr can be killed by fire, exposure to sunlight or decapitation. A stake through the heart immobilises them, but does not kill them. Starving of blood will reduce them to a corpse, but this corpse can reanimate if supplied with blood.

Vampiress: A female vampire.

Vampire Demi-god: Entities who are neither demon nor spirit. Demi-gods, or lesser gods, are often god hybrids or low ranking gods who traditionally do not interact with the mortal population, unless it is in legend. A vampire demi-god is a figure in mythology which acts in a manner consistent with folkloric vampires. These lesser gods are, I believe, the beginnings of the vampire, who eventually de-evolved from a god- splitting then, perhaps, into the other related forms of spirits and demons- to a very tangible, and formally mortal, corpse.

Vampire Society: Most solitary vampires, at least the supernatural ones, will end up dead. Since this happens, vampires tend to form groups for support. There are various small groups in every town, but there are two important groups: The Children of Cain and The Lilim.

Varacolaci: Romanian. This vampire that ranks among the most powerfull of all the undead, as possesses the ability to cause both lunar and solar eclipses. The Varacolaci may appear as pale humans with dry skin, and they can travel on an astral thread, the midnight spinning, travelling as far as need as long as the thread remains unbroken.

Vetala: Hindu vampires whose hands and feet are turned backward which reanimate the dead.

Volkodlak: Slovenian. The Volkolak is linked in some ways to various werewolf legends.

Vourdalak: Russian. In Russian folklore, this Vampire is considered to be a beautiful but evil woman.

Vrykolakas: This Greek name is interchangeable with Lampir(Bosnian), Vurvulak(Albanian), Upirina(Serbo-Croatian), and Vukodlak(Croatian). It is an evil being amongst the Southern Slavs that attacked people at night. It is said that there was one for every Slavic clan.

Vrykolatios: A vampire species found on the island of Santorini. They are described as fiends which banquet on the living.

Vukodlak: A Slavic Vampire-Werewolf which rises from its grave to drink blood and have sex with its former spouse.

Vurvulak: See Vrykolakas.

Vyrkolakas: Greek name for Vampire.

Wampira: Russian name for Vampire.

Xiang shi: A Chinese vampire created from the po-The evil power of the human spirit.

Yara-ma-yha-who: These existed in the Aboriginal cultures of Australia. They are a vampire-like being who are described as a small red man, about 4 ft tall, has no teeth, an exceptionally large head and mouth, and whose finger and toe tips are shaped like an octopus'. They drop down from trees and drain people of blood with their fingers and toes, leaving them weak and helpless. Later they would come back to swallow the victom whole.

Yatu-Dhana: They are Indian sorcerors who devour the remains left by Rakshasas.

Zmeu: Moldavian. This Vampire took the form of a flame and entered the room of a young girl or widow. Once inside the flame became a man who seduced her.