In Peru there is a vampiric spirit that feeds off the body fat and blood of sleeping people called a liquichiri (“vampire”). It has the ability to shape-shift into a variety of different animals, which it uses in order to slip into homes silently and unseen. Vampires that are similar to the liquichiri are the KHARISIRI, LIK’ICHIRI, ÑAKAQ and the PISHTACO.

Source: Tierney, Highest Altar, 235, 291, 300, 316, 325

An Albanian vampiric REVENANT, the lioubgai is created when a person dies on the battlefield and his body is badly burned but not wholly destroyed. Rising up as a lioubgai, it will return to the battlefield at night where it will feed off the blood of dying men.

Source: Le Musée des Vampires

A sixteenth century church decree declared that all Albanians of Turkish descent would become a vampire after their death, no matter how good or spiritual a life they may have led. Later, in 1854, the vampiric REVENANT known as the liogat was officially described as meaning “dead Turks in winding sheets”, a fitting description, as when this vampiric REVENANT returned from the grave, its burial shroud was wrapped around its body and it wore high-heeled shoes. Spreading disease wherever it went, the liogat was also considered to be a death omen when seen.

Just as wolves are the natural enemy of the vampire known as the KUKUDHI, they equally hate the liogat. Should a vampire manage to survive a wolf attack, it will retreat into its grave, too ashamed to rise up again.

In lieu of awaiting wolf attack, one can look for a CORPSE CANDLE and follow it, carefully, as it will go to the grave that the vampire sleeps in by day. A wooden stake driven through the heart of the vampire will pin it to the ground, and although not destroying it, will render it incapable of doing further harm.

Source: Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, 216; Ashley, Complete Book of Vampires; Summers, Werewolf in Lore and Legend, 149; Taylor, Primitive Culture, 311