Although his wife buried him with a funeral, he soon began appearing around town assaulting people, damaging property, and generally creating mayhem. While being shipped home for proper burial, he was revived. Patino, before his turn, was a merchant from Patmos, who died while on a trip to Natolia. One infamous Vrykolakas was called Patino. However, there Vrykolakas also has some times to poltergeist-like activity and the devil, so an exorcism is also said to work. You can get rid of a Vrykolakas much the same way you’d get rid of an Eastern European vampire – a stake through the heart, some kind of impaling, cremating the corpse, etc. So don’t go sharing your meals with people you don’t know, especially if they are hairy. Of course, there is one more strange way to become a Vrykolakas…by eating mutton that was previously eaten by a werewolf. It is said that if you live a sacrilegious life, were excommunicated, or were buried in the unconsecrated ground that you run the risk of joining the undead. One can become a Vrykolakas fairly simply. Sometimes, Vrykolakas were people who had died unfortunate or violent deaths and had to attend to some unfinished business. However, it also seems that not all Vrykolakas wanted to kill everyone they came into contact with. To this day in Greece, it is common in some places to not open the door until the second knock. Once a person opened the door, they would soon die. In order to draw people out, it would knock on doors. If you saw a Vrykolakas walking around town, you would immediately know your town was in mortal peril. Instead, it would spread death through disease. The Vrykolakas do not turn those with a bite. Its body swells up so that all its limbs are distended, it is hard, and when tapped it thrums like a drum.” It has also been reported, along with the rise of the Greek Orthodox Church, that the Vrykolakas had to do with evil (or the devil) inhabiting a body of the already dead, causing it to move. According to Allatius, “The vrykolakas is an evil and wicked person who may have been excommunicated by a bishop.
The word “Vrykolakas” isn’t strictly vampiric in and of itself, and is actually linked to wolves! It is Slavic in origin and comes from the root words meaning “wolf.” According to, “the etymological leap from werewolf to vampire is obscure.” The earliest uses of the word seem to be around the mid-1600s.
While the two are very similar, vrykolakas eats flesh, particularly livers, rather than drink blood, which combined with other factors such as its appearance bring it more in line with the modern concept of a zombie. It shares similarities with numerous other legendary creatures but is generally equated with the vampire of the folklore of the neighbouring Slavic countries.
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