Zombies and vampire and body snatcher , oh my ! Almost every culture has stories of beings who rise from their graves or some part of the supernatural earth and return to eat up the living -or at least salute our blood . Here are a few of those tales from all corner of the Earth .
1. Vetala (India)
Some of the world’soldest tales of vampirescome from India , where ancient Hindu stories were taken to other nations by traders and nomads . One of these beings is thevetala , who are dead but not at rest because the right funeral rites were not perform for them . They are also identify as evil spirits that busy corpse . A vetal ( singular form ) has uncanny knowledge of the past , present , and future which they employ to confound humans , although they sometimes become a guard or help to sorcerers who enslave them . Vetala go in cemeteries , but wander abroad to wipe out youngster and farm animal . You may acknowledge a vetal because the corpse ’s manpower and animal foot are turn backwards .
2. Jiang Shi (China)
The ChineseJiang Shitranslates to " sozzled corpse " . If a person die out after a bad liveliness or commits suicide , they may rise from the grave accent and predate upon the keep . The appearing of the Jiang Shi ( alternately spell Chiang - shih ) depends on how decompose the body is at the time of rising . Because the corpse is stiff , they can only moveby hopping . Jiang Shi are blind and may appear to have molding or moss grow on their bodies , and will attack the sustenance and suck out their life story violence .
3. Bruxa (Portugal)
4. Ghoul (Arabia)
Ghoulsare flesh - eaters . In modernistic utilisation , it refers to grave robber of all sort . The origin of the word is Arabic and evenolder than the faith of Islam . The early tale of ghouls paint them as fiend or malign genie that live in the desert and can shift shape to disguise themselves as human , ordinarily as a beautiful woman , or sometimes ahyena . In the story of the Arabian Nights , ghouls kill masses in purchase order to eat their anatomy . Bedouin tales have ghouls inhabiting the bodies of those they attacked after eat part of them .
5. The Beast of Bladenboro (USA)
Beginning in late 1953 , Bladenboro , North Carolina was the prospect of unexplained attacks . A farmer sawa wolf resembling a catcarry his dog off . Several dog carcasses were later find drain of rip . huntsman total from all over the country to hunt the " vampire beast " until the small townsfolk got sick of the ballyhoo . A Lynx rufus was then shot and displayed , and the humanity was assured that the beast had been find oneself . Althoughsome reportshave surfaced that the wolf remain active , it has n’t stopped Bladenboro from hosting anannual festivalcentered around the legend .
6. Vrykolakas (Greece)
Thevrykolakasis a fiend that rises from the grave of a person who led a sacrilegious life-time . They are doomed to walk among the living , not to toast their blood , but to disperse disease and cause death by sit on a victim while they catch some Z’s . Even a wolfman can become a vrykolakas after death . If a vrykolakas knocks on your threshold , do n’t answer until the second knock , or you , too , will become a vrykolakas !
7. Nachzehrer (Germany)
Thenachzehrerroams parts of Germany , particularly Bavaria and Silesia . It is a reanimated cadaver that feed on its own eubstance as well as those of its living relatives ! After climbing out of its grave , the nachzehrer takes the form of a pig to scat realization as it seeks out house member to drink profligate from . Then it will border the church bells , which kills all who get word them . The nachzehrer lies with one thumb in the other hired man , and always keeps its left oculus open . Image by Flickr userwa?.ti ? .
8. Zombie (Haiti)
In Haitian Voudou , azombieis a corpse that has been reanimated by a sorcerer to be a slave . One famous vitrine was a woman found in a zombi - like State Department divagate the street ofEnneryin 1937 who was claim to beFelicia Felix - Mentor , a woman who cash in one’s chips in 1907 . The Mentor kinsperson took her in for a while before sending the woman to a hospital . They first believed her to be Felicia , although a physical interrogation later found she was miss a wooden leg fracture Felicia was know to suffer . Another Haitian , Clairvius Narcissewas reportedly turned into a zombie slave after he was poison ( withtetrodotoxin , which simulates end ) and swallow . Narcisse was allegedly compass up and given a hallucinogenic drug for 18 years while he work on a sugar plantation , and then recover after his " schoolmaster " pop off and stopped dosing him .
There are just a few of the planetary legends of the undead -also check out part two of this list,9 of the Undead from Around the macrocosm .
