P ~ Z of VAMPIREs 

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Pacu Pati
A powerful vampire from India. The creature is deemed lord of all beings of mischief. It is seem at night in cemeteries and places of execution.

Pelesit
A Malaysian spirit vampire. It invades a persons body, causing illness and death. Victims will rant and rave while under its posession.

Penanggalan
A Malaysian vampire, which flies at night with only the head and neck of its body complete and with its intestines dangling beneath them. The creature is always female and generally feeds on children or women in labour.

Pijavica
A Slovenian vampire. It 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.

Pisacha
A vampire from India, said to be a creature created by humanity's vices. While it is in general an evil deity, its favorite past time being the consumption of fresh corpses, it can also cure diseases if enticed too.

Polong
A vampire imp from Malaysia, created by bottling the blood of a murdered man and performing certain archaic rituals over the bottle, a bond is made between the creator of the Polong and itself by allowing it to feed briefly each day on a finger. It is closely associated with Pelesit

Rakshasa
A vampire from India, whose name translates as "the injurer". The female assumes the form of a beautiful woman, luring man to their death. In the newer legends the Rakhassa is said to live in trees and induces vomiting and indigestion in people who stray into its territory. A child will be transformed into such a creature if he can be induced to eat human brains.

Ramanga
A living vampire found in Madagascar. A servant of the tribal elders the Ramanga would consume the nail clippings and spilled blood of a noble member of the tribe.

Stregoni benefici
An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires.

Striges
A female witch-vampire which could transform into a crow and would then drink the blood of humans. Classified among the living vampires.

Strigoii
The infamous Romanian dead vampire. There numerous ways to become a Strigoii, including being a seventh son and suicide. Generally said to be friendly towards Gypsys.

Succubus
A female vampire, a fiend that visits men in there sleep to torment their dreams and engage them in sex. The Succubus could render a victim totally exhausted in its pursuit of carnal pleasure.

Talamaur
A living vampire found in Australia. This creature could communicate with the spirit world, making one of these spirits its servant which it could then send among the living. One version of the Talamaur could send out its soul to drain the remaining life essence from a fresh corpse.

Tlaciques
Vampire witches found among the Nahuatl Indians of Mexico. They can turn into a ball of flame or into a turkey, in which form they can feed unnoticed.

Ubour
A Bulgarian vampire, created when a person dies violently or the spirit refuses to leave the body. The corpse remains buried for forty days and then arises to cause mischief. It generally won't drink blood until its other sources of nourishment are gone, and as these include regular food the attacking of humans rarely occurs. The Ubour is said to create sparks by its movement.

Upier
A Polish vampire that is unusual in the fact that it rises at mid day and returns to sleep at midnight. It is said to have a barbed tongue and consumes vast quantities of blood. This creatures fascination with blood goes much further than normal vampires as it sleeps in blood as well.

Upir
A vampire found in the Ukraine, that is noted for its desire to eat large amounts of fish.

Upyr
A Russian vampire, considered to be extremely vicious. It will first attack children and then continue on to kill the parents. As with the Upier the Upyr rises during the day and sleeps at night, and in doing so has a fairly human appearance.

Utukku
A Babylonian vampire spirit, sometimes viewed as a demon. Generally believed to be the spirit of a recently deceased person that has returned from the grave for some unknown reason.

Varacolaci
A Romanian vampire that ranks among the most powerful of all the undead. It is said to have the ability to cause both lunar and solar eclipses. They may appear as pale humans with dry skin. They can travel on an astral thread, the midnight spinning, traveling as far as need as long as the thread remains unbroken.

Volkodlak
A species of vampire found in Slovenia, linked in some ways to various werewolf legends.

Vourdalak
A Russian vampire, considered in Russian folklore to be a beautiful but evil woman.

Vrykolakas
A species of vampire found in the Adriatic and Agean regions. It is created by various means including an immoral life. It travels in the dark and knocks upon doors, calling out the name of someone inside, if the person responds they will die soon after. It gains further powers as it grows older.

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

Zmeu
A vampire figure found in Moldavia. It 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.