Vampire
c. 1000 CE – 2026 CEattested
Southeastern Europe
- European Folklore
Slavic revenants who returned to drain the living, and the subject of official Habsburg investigations in the 1720s before literature made them aristocratic.
Known for
- the returning dead
- blood-drinking
- staked in the grave
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.