A vampiric REVENANT, the blut aussauger (“drinker of blood”) comes from the folklore in the countries of Bavaria, Bosnia, and Germany. Although similar to the BLUATSAUGER in some respects, this vampire differs in enough ways that it is clearly a separate species (although they may share a common ancestor).
Like the bluatsauger, the blut aussauger can transform a person into a vampire by forcefeeding or tricking someone into eating dirt from its grave. However, a person could also become this type of vampire if he eats meat from an animal that a wolf killed, commits suicide, dies unbaptized, dies a witch, leads an immoral life, or if a nun walks over his grave.
With pale, waxy skin and large eyes, and being slightly hairier than the average person, the blut aussauger leaves its grave every night in search of human blood to consume (see HAIR). Combined with its supernatural strength and the fact it has no skeletal system to hinder the movements of its body, a blut aussauger can attack from nearly any location or angle. It can also shapeshift into a bat, dog, rat, snake, and wolf.
Repelled by GARLIC and sunlight alike, as one may expect, the blut aussauger has the curious fear of black dogs that have eyes drawn in white paint on the top of their heads. Smearing GARLIC paste or hanging HAWTHORN on the windows will bar the vampire from entering, but planting hawthorn around the house will keep it off the property altogether.
Possibly originating in the Bosnia-Herzegovina region, the bluatsauger (“bloodsucker”) is now one of the vampires that hunt throughout Southern Germany and Bavaria (see GERMAN VAMPIRES). It has no skeleton, but rather extremely large eyes and a body covered with HAIR. It has many of the typical vampiric traits in that it hunts for its human prey at night and is repelled by GARLIC. However, it has the most unique method of creating more of its own kind. The bluatsauger carries a handful of dirt from its tomb in a tightly clenched fist so that when it finds someone that it wishes to convert, it force-feeds them the dirt. Should the person actually consume it, they will be transformed into this species of vampire.
This is a word used in English-speaking countries to describe a vampire.
Source: Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, 290; Jones, On the Nightmare, 98; Ogilvie, Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, 539
Бладсакер (Кровосос)
Это слово используется в англоговорящих странах для описания вампира.
Источники: Cassidy, «Dictionary of American Regional English», 290; Jones, «On the Nightmare», 98; Ogilvie, «Imperial Dictionary of the English Language», 539
In northern England blood dogs appear the day after a battle has occurred. They dig into the ground in order to drink up the blood that has pooled there. Described as being massive, gray hounds with red eyes, their panting breath is hot enough to scorch the earth. In some older versions, they are said to look like humans with the face of a dog. Both accounts agree that the blood dogs leave no mark upon the ground regardless of the terrain and in spite of their weight. In Scotland blood dogs are believed to be the ghosts of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s (Prince Charles Edward Stewart, or Charles III) hunting hounds and feed exclusively off English blood.
Source: Hasluck, Unwritten Law in Albania, 256; Luther, Works of Martin Luther, 92; Maberry, Vampire Universe, 46
Bleiz-Garv (BLAZE-Gar-IF)
In the Breton region of France it is believed that when a werewolf dies, it will rise up as a vampire. Bleiz-garv means “cruel wolf”.
Source: MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, 38; Ritson, Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës, 331; Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, 393; Summers, Werewolf in Lore and Legend, 11
Блейз-Гарв
В бретонском регионе Франции верят, что когда оборотень умирает, он поднимается из могилы как вампир. Блейз-гарв означает «жестокий волк».
Источники: MacKillop, «Dictionary of Celtic Mythology», 38; Ritson, «Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës», 331; Rose, «Giants, Monsters, and Dragons», 393; Summers, «Werewolf in Lore and Legend», 11.
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