The Hantu Langsuir is said to be hideous with piercing red eyes.
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The Hantu Langsuir, from Malaysian lore, is one of the most feared and deadliest of all banshees of Malaysia. It was believed that woman who died giving birth to their child, who also dies, will become a Hantu Langsuir after 40 days. She is described as being hideous with red piercing eyes, sharp claws, very long hair, a decayed face, and huge fangs. She is able to fly and is most often seen wearing a green or white robe. The hantu langsuir could also shape-shift into an owl. She is also vengeful and furious and will go after newborns and pregnant women, drinking their blood, milk, and organs from the inside out causing a very slow death. It was believed that the hantu langsuir has a hole on the back of her neck used to suck blood. Filling the hole with her hair or cutting her claws will make her human again. To prevent women from turning into a hantu langsuir many glass beads must be placed in the woman’s mouth. The still-born children of the hantu langsuir are called Pontianak.

The Balbal, from Filipino lore.
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Other Aliases: Bal-Bal, Busaw, Segben, Wirwir

The Balbal is from Filipino lore and is a ghoul that steals bodies and eats those that are ready to die. Because of this, they are said to have very bad breath. Since it feeds on bodies it is considered a type of vampire and is equipped with very sharp teeth and claws to tear the dead apart. It is also a trickster, once it takes the body out of the coffin it then replaces the coffin with a banana tree trunk so that people think the body is still in the coffin. It is one of the most feared vampires in the Philippines.

The Hanh Saburo is known for controlling dogs.
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The hanh saburo is a vampire from Indian lore. It dwells in the forest and is able to control dogs or wolves which can lure travelers into the forest where they will be attacked by sounds. They were invisible but sometimes were seen as balls of light or orbs. They would often be in trees or deep in the woods surrounded by thick vegetation. They could be detected by a foul odor.

The Hantu Laut was a Malaysian spirit of the sea.
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The Hantu Laut is from Malaysian lore and when directly translated it means “sea spirits.” These spirits of the sea were considered cannibalistic and was known to attack men at sea, particularly as fisherman and sailors. They considered vampires, feasting on the blood and life of the living.

When Malaysian fisherman would enter parts of the water where the hantu laut was believed to inhabit, they would proceed with caution and avoid making noise. They had great respect for the spirits and would not fish fearing their wrath. If they did, it would cause the spirits to be upset and cause accidents and disasters.

Astral Vampires take the form of a spirit to attack their victims.
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The astral vampire, from occult lore, is the spirit of a living vampire or other evil entity. They can also be created by witches or sorcerers who are strong enough to project themselves out of their own bodies to attack people at great distances. The attack is said to be created psychically and they may also be referred to as “psychic vampires”, not to be confused with its other meaning. (a person who believes they can feed off others energies psychically.)

The spirit of a restless dead person may also be able to project itself by exiting its body and feed on living people. When a living person is attacked while sleeping, it feeds off of the psychic energy and can cause depression, madness, and suicide to the victim. When the spirit of the vampire returns, the dead body feeds off of it, this theory is known as the “hemolytic factor.” The vampire sucks up the red corpuscles released in the victim’s blood. These are later brought back to the grave and given to the corpse for food or energy. To protect against one of these vampires only magic will help, using a stake in the heart will not stop it.

The Hannya is often seen characterized on Japanese masks.
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Introduction

The hannya is a demonic woman with vampire-like qualities from Japanese lore. She is very jealous and is described as having two sharp horns poking from her head, eyes that are known to glare, and a large mouth. When opened, the mouth stretches from ear to ear. She eats children and drinks their blood. She is very popular and can be seen in many mask designs throughout Japan. The masks expression has her mouth open and is suppose to capture her anger and wrath. The oldest hannya mask is from 1558.

The Mask

When the mask is used in popular plays the coloration of the mask will depend on how angry she is. The redder her face the more angry she is. For example in a play known as Dodoji, which is a play about a woman who falls inlove with a priest from the Dodoji Temple, the hannya is very violent. She turns herself into an evil serpent and slithers up to the bell at the top of the temple. She wraps herself around it and eats it then turns against the priest and devours him as well. In other plays when she is not so angry her face is portrayed with a paler yellow mask.

Interesting Fact:

In modern day Japan when a wife gets angry or jealous the man will put his two index fingers out from his forehead to symbolize the hannya.

The doppelsauger comes back to prey on his relatives.
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The Doppelsauger (also known as the Dubbelsuger) is a vampire from Hannover, Germany. Doppelsauger means “doublesucker”, which refers to children who are weaned but they still continue to suck his mother’s breasts. This then causes the person to be a vampire after they die. Their lips are the only thing that remains undecayed. While they are in the grave they suck on their own breasts until there’s nothing left, then he feeds upon members of his family since they have a connection. The family members will lose weight at a rapid rate and die.

To prevent a Doppelsauger from occurring you can place a gold cross or gold coin between the corpse’s teeth or separate the head from the chest with a crescent-shaped board placed under the chin. Make sure the burial clothing is away from his mouth before he’s buried. After the funeral and the coffin is exited out the window, cover the window. He won’t be able to come back to the house, according to lore, the Doppelsauger returns to the house the same way that it left. Rebuilding and removing the window will prevent him from returning to the house. This, however, doesn’t stop the vampire from coming out of his grave. It can be stopped by digging him up and stabbing the back of his neck with a spade, it will then let out a very loud scream. After this, the attacks should cease.

The Eretik can be killed by an Aspen stake.
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The Eretik is form Russian lore and is a cannibalistic vampire. The term eretnik took the place of the word upir, which was a very old Russian term for vampire. It is described as a dead person that comes out of the grave to prey on living individuals. It was believed that sorcerers or non-christians would come back as an eretik. When this particular body is dug up it is most often lying on its stomach. The vampire can be stopped by burning the body into ashes or stabbing an aspen stake through its back.

The buckinghamshire vampire attacked his victims at night.
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Introduction

The Buckinghamshire Vampire case was about an English vampire told orally by William of Newburgh. He was related to Stephen, the archdeacon of Buckinghamshire. The man wasn’t considered a vampire at the time because that term didn’t come into the English language until the 18th century.

The Story

The story started with a man dying in 1192 in Buckinghamshire. The night after he was buried he made a ghostly visit to his sleeping wife. He climbed into bed with her and started to press all of his weight on her, a phenomenon known as Old Hag Syndrome. He almost killed her, and he continued to visit her every night. On the third night his wife invited people over so that he would not harm her. When the vampire came in, it was driven away when everyone shouted at him. Instead of attacking continuing his attack on her, he went to visit his brothers who lived in the same town. They made loud noises and were left alone, so instead he would disturb other sleeping people and even sleeping animals. People were forced to stay up and keep guard, but that didn’t stop him. He was then seen in daylight and was said to possess an evil presence.

Stopping the Vampire

The townspeople turned to the archdeacon Stephen for help. He then wrote a letter to the bishop of Lincoln, St. Hugh, and asked what to do about the spirit.
St. Hugh asked priests and others about the attacks, which they found similar stories in England. They found out that this would end if the corpse was dug up, the organs burned. He didn’t want to do this because it seemed wrong to do, so Hugh wrote an absolution, a document with written forgiveness. He told Stephen to open up the coffin and place this document on the man’s chest and rebury him. When Stephen opened up the tomb, the body was not decayed and the absolution was placed on the corpse’s chest and reburied. The vampire was never seen walking around again.

The Bruxsa often takes the form of a bird during the night.
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The Bruxsa is from Portuguese lore and is a female vampire witch. She is described as being a beautiful woman in the day and leaves in the form of a bird at night looking for lost travelers or babies. She is able to have marry and have children and will eat them. She will attack and suck the blood from infants sleeping in their cribs and is hard to kill. Unlike many other witches, her choice to be evil is hers, rather than the cause of an accident or a birth defect. The Bruxsa is said to be immortal and has immense sorcerous powers. She is able to cause miscarriages, storms, droughts and disease. Garlic is a good repellent for the Bruxsa, and she cannot be killed by mortal means.