Origin: Greece
Type: Undead
Vrykolakas were believed to be the spirit of a deceased person who’s body has not been properly mourned. If they had not been given the proper burial rites, the spirit may linger around the corpse and reanimate it. To prevent this, bodies would be exhumed three years after death, to be sure that it had decomposed. If the body was stiff and swollen, it was believed to be a vampire.
