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There are four types of vampires: physical, spiritual, psychic, and astral. There are at least thirty-four different vampire legends in the world:
ADZE of southeast Ghana and southern Togo in Africa
ALGUL (ghoul) from Arabia
ALP which is a German vampire-like spirit
ALUGA which was considered by some to be the demon king of vampires
VRYKOLAKAS which is a Greek vampire species
ASWANG from the Philippines
MRART which is a powerful vampire of Australian aborigines lore
BAJANG (male) who is a demon vampire found in Malaysia. The LANGSUIR is the female of the species
BAOBHAN-SITH which is a Scottish blood-sucking fiend
STRIGOIIA is a Romanian vampire
BRAHMAPARUSH is a cruel vampire species found in northern India that enjoys consuming human beings
BRUXSA is a feared female vampire species found in Portugal which exhibits many characteristics of the ASWANG of the Philippines and is normally transformed by witchcraft and flies in the shape of a large bird after leaving her home. There are no known ways to destroy them
KUANG-SHI (or CHIANG-SHI) who is the most feared vampire type in China and is distinguuished by its glaring red eyes, sharp fangs, talons, and white or greenish-white body hair
CHUREL (or CHURAIL) is a vicious and vengeful ghost-like vampire found in India and is normally a woman who died while pregnant during the Dewali Festival or while unclean at any time
CIVATATEO is a type of witch-vampire found among the Aztecs of Mexico and were also given the honorific title of civapipiltin (princess) as they were noble women who had died in childbirth
DANAG is a Filipino vampire held to be very ancient as a species
DEARG-DUE is from Ireland and whose name means "red blood sucker" and dates from pre- or early-Celtic days and is greatly feared
DUBBELSUGER ("double sucker") is a type of vampire found in northern Germany among the Slavs (Wends)
ERETICA is a formidable Russian vampire species
NACHZHRER is a vampire species found in northern Europe and parts of Germany
NELAPSI is a Slovak vampire in Czechoslovakia
MANDURUGO is a Filipino vampire found in the region of Capiz and appearing as a beautiful woman by day and a foul flying fiend at night that was seen in 1992 during the Philippines presidential election
OBAYIFO is a kind of living vampire found on the Gold Coast of West Africa
OHYA is a Polish vampire
PENANGGLAN is a Malaysian vampire
RAKSHASA is a powerful species of Indian vampire
JARACACAS is a vampire species found in Brazil that appears in the shape of a snake and feeds at the breasts of nursing mothers by pushing the baby out of the way and sticking its tail in the baby's mouth to keep it quiet
STREGONI BENEFICI is an Italian name meaning "beneficial vampire" and indicates a belief that there were certain undead who were on the side of goodness.
TALAMAUR is the name given to a living vampire found in the Banks Islands, near Australia
VOURDALAK is a Russian vampire species
NEUNTOTER is a German vampire that takes nine days to form and can be killed by placing a lemon in its mouth.
Vampires were ranked with demons as the chief agents of sin, a philosophy that became official Church Doctrine in the Middle Ages. According to many vampirologists, Egypt or India was the birthplace of the vampire; but it has been postulated that Tibet is the real home of the vampire. Santorini is traditionally the most vampire-infested place in the world. Through biblical origins, forty days has been associated with the life span of the vampire, either becoming a vampire in forty days or only living as one for forty days.
In Greece and regions of the Balkans, a tradition holds that blue-eyed people would become vampires because of the scarcity of blue-eyed people in that region. In Ireland, blue- or gray-eyed people were said to be able to see ghosts. A Greek belief is that red hair is an indication that an individual is a vampire and is joined often with blue-eyes, another vampiric attribute.
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