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Greece

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

Cyclades: the case documented at first hand took place on Míkonos; the belief is pan-Hellenic, with forms of its own in Crete

AVrykolakasGreece — Cyclades: the case documented at first hand took place on Míkonos; the belief is pan-Hellenic, with forms of its own in Crete

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Greece documented in this atlas: Vrykolakas. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade A), with the sources it comes from.

Vrykolakas A
A dead man who does not decompose: swollen, reddish, the skin taut as a drum, «fresh and full of new blood». At night he knocks at doors, puts out the lamps, crushes and suffocates sleepers, and infects them. One becomes one…

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