In Turkey the vampiric REVENANT known as an uber (“overlord,” “witch” or “vampire”) is created when a person dies through an act of violence or when a foreigner who is not Muslim is buried in Turkish soil.

Source: de Vere, Dragon Legacy, 55-56; Jones, On the Nightmare, 124; Summers, Vampire: His Kith and Kin, 309

In South America, all along the Amazon River and in the nearby jungle there lives a type of vampiric demon called uahti. It is a small and hairy creature with an enlarged penis, large belly, and toeless feet (see HAIR). Following behind a colony of bats, the uahti sexually assaults adolescent girls and adult men, draining away their sexual and life-energy during the assault (see ENERGY VAMPIRE).

Source: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Shaman and the Jaguar, 72, 83, 85; Roth, American Elves, 106, 107, 108; Wicker, From the Ground Up, 33

On the Polynesian islands there is a vampiric demon known as a tü (“war” or “to stand”). When a person wants the power to communicate with the dead, he eats a piece of the corpse belonging to the person he wishes to converse with. The spirit, the tü, that once resided in the body will return and appear to the person, seeking to start a friendship with him. As a show of good faith and wanting to make friends, the tü will offer to do favors for the person, such as attacking those who would do its potential new friend harm and drinking their blood.

Source: Carlyon, Guide to the Gods, 382; Fornander, Account of the Polynesian Race, 170; Handy, Polynesian Religion, 265

In Romania there is a vampiric were-creature called a triccolitch; it is essentially a variation of the GREEK VAMPIRE VRYKOLAKA and the Serbian vampire VUKODLAK. The triccolitch is able to shape-shift into a dog or a pig.

Source: Cremene, Mythology of the Vampire of Romania

A vampiric demon in Malaysian lore, the toyol (“elevated”) is created by magic and used by a witch to be her familiar. Taking the body of a deceased baby, the witch performs a ceremony that allows a demonic spirit to possess and animate the corpse, binding it to her to do her bidding. Looking like the GREEN-skinned baby with red eyes that it is, the toyol is usually kept in an earthenware jar called tempayan, which is stored under the witch’s home until it is needed, as the toyol is rather mischievous when left to its own devices. It is also something of an accomplished thief, but unless it is told to go and steal something, it only takes half of what is there.

Source: Cremene, Mythology of the Vampire of Romania; Fogelson, Anthropology of Power, 282; Robbins, Global Problems, 62