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Nine days after burial, the ustrel claws its way out of its grave. It then finds a herd of cattle to satisfy its thirst for blood. It then returns to its grave. But on the next day it returns to the herd and never returns to its grave. It then resides in the horns or a bull or the hind legs of a milk cow. It feeds first on the fattest cattle and then works its way on down as the poor animals whither and die.

To get rid of an ustrel a vampire hunter called vampirdzija must perform the ritual of the need fire. On a Saturday morning, all the fires in the community are extinguished. Then two bone fires are created at a crossroads. The cattle are then led between the two fires. The ustrel drops onto the crossroads from the animal whose horns or hind legs it had inhabited when that animal passes between the two fires. The ustrel cannot leave the crossrroad and is eventually devoured by wolves.

The tlahuelpuchi is a type of vampire or witch that lives with its human family. It is able to shapeshift and sucks the blood of infants at night. It has a kind of glowing aura when shape shifted.

Tlahuelpocmimi are born with their curse and cannot avoid it. They first learn of what they are sometime around puberty. Most tlahuelpuchi are female and the female tlahuelpuchi are more powerful than males.

The tlahuelpocmimi have a form of society. Typically they each have their own territories. They also have a pact with shamans and other supernatural creatures; a shaman won't turn in a suspected tlahuelpuchi. The typical sign that a victim was killed by the tlahuelpuchi are bruises on their upper body. The Tlahuelpuchi largely feeds on children, though it can kill others.

The tlahuelpuchi is similar to the nahual in that they both can shape shift into various animal forms. The nahual, however learns his craft and does not need to suck blood. Also the nahual looks like a natural animal when shapeshifted.

Tlahuelpocmimi are able to change form by detaching their body from their legs (which are left in the house of the witch). They then go hunting, usually in the form of some bird like a turkey or a vulture. The tlahuelpuchi has to perform a ritual before she can enter the house of a victim. The tlahuelpuchi must fly over the house in the shape of a cross from north to south, east to west. Coincidentally the shamans of the region cleanse the bodies of victims by uncrossing them. Victims also are given different burial rites.

Tlahuelpocmimi must feed at least once a month on blood or they die. Their victim of choice is an infant. There is no way to detect a tlahuelpuchi except by catching them in the act. Their family protects them out of shame and because if a family member is responsible for the death of a tlahuelpuchi the curse will be passed down to them. The curse cannot be lifted, and if a tlahuelpuchi is identified, they must be killed on the spot. Garlic, onions and metal repel the tlahuelpuchi. Often people report seeing glowing animals before a tlahuelpuchi attack. The tlahuelpuchi are able to avade capture by turning into an animal so small, like tick, that the glowing is not noticable.

According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or "Witches' Hammer", succubi would collect semen from the men they slept with, which incubi would then use to impregnate women. Children so begotten were supposed to be more susceptible to the influence of demons.

Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story The Succubus [1] concerning a 1271 trial of a she-devil succubus in the guise of a woman, who amongst other things could use her hair to entangle victims.

From the 16th century, the carving of a succubus on the outside of an inn indicated that the establishment also operated as a brothel.

The appearance of succubi varies just about as much as that of demons in general; there is no single definitive depiction. However, they are almost universally depicted as alluring women with unearthly beauty, often with demonic batlike wings; occasionally, they will be given other demonic features (horns, a tail with a spaded tip, snakelike eyes, hooves, etc). Occasionally they appear simply as an attractive woman in dreams that the victim cannot seem to get off their mind. They lure males and in some cases, the male has seemed to fall "in love" with her. Even out of the dream she will not leave his mind. She will remain there slowly draining energy from him.

To this day the blame of nocturnal emissions and other sexual occurrences or mysteries are, in some cultures and circles, blamed on a demon of sins such as a succubus.

Experiences of apparent supernatural visitations at night can sometimes occur as effects of hypnagogia.

The succubus is a popular figure in modern fantasy fiction.

Mare was also a term for the sighing, suffocative panting, or an intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, which occurring during sleep. These symptoms were also thought to be an incubus (or succubus), a evil preternatural being causing nightmares and/or nocturnal emissions.

Succubi are often featured in fantasy fiction and role-playing games, and often shown with batlike wings and bikini clad. Succubi are often very prominent in the sexual aspects of fantasy fandoms and paraphilia.

• The earliest recorded tale of the strix is from the lost Ornithologia of the Greek author Boio, which is partially preserved in Antoninus Liberalis's Metamorphoses. This tells the story of Polyphonte and her two sons Agrios and Oreios (their father being a wild bear), who were punished for their cannibalism, like Lycaon, by being transformed into wild animals. Polyphonte became a strix "that cries by night, without food or drink, with head below and tips of feet above, a harbinger of war and civil strife to men".
• The first Latin allusion is in Plautus's Pseudolus dated to 191 BCE, in which a cook, describing the cuisine of his inferiors, compares its action to that of the disembowelling a hapless victim.
• Horace, in his Epodes, makes the strix's magical properties clear: its feathers are an ingredient in a love potion. Seneca the Younger, in his Hercules Furens, shows the striges dwelling on the outskirts of Tartarus.
• Ovid (Fasti, vi.101 ff.) tells the story of striges attacking the legendary king Procas in his cradle, and how they were warded off with arbutus and placated with the meat of pigs, as an explanation for the custom of eating beans and bacon on the Kalends of June.

The concept of the strix was nonetheless vague. The scientific Pliny, in his Natural History confesses little knowledge of them; he knows that their name was once used as a curse, but beyond that he can only aver that the tales of them nursing their young must be false, since no bird except the bat (at the time commonly and wrongly classified as a bird, with the exception of Aristotle who considered the bat as halfway between bird and land animal) suckled its children.

Roman poet Ovid, by the way, suggested three possible theories as to the origin of Striges. They were either:

• born as striges
• enchanged
• hags put under a spell

The Synod of Rome, dated 743, outlawed offerings to Striges. In 744 "A list of Superstitions" drawn at the Council of Leptinnes renounced "all the works of the Demon and all the evil beings that are like them". Many laws were then passed forbidding belief in pagan spirits, punished sometimes (as in Saxony, back in 789) with execution.

In the Middle Ages striges were said to be servants of Satan and his demons.

The appearance and sound of the screech owl influenced Roman ideas of the blood-drinking strix. The strix or striga (pl. striges; occasionally corrupted to stirge) was an Ancient Roman legendary creature, usually described as a nocturnal bird of ill omen that fed on human flesh and blood, like a vampire. Unlike later vampires, it was not a revenant.

A strix is depicted as a blood-drinking bird, with huge talons, misshapen heads, breasts full of poisonous milk.

Striges were said to be very fond of livers and internal organs. They fly by night and no barriers may keep them out. A Strix could prey upon sleeping men (by turning into women and had sexual intercourse in order to suck their life-force off) and children (by offering them the poisoned milk).

Crane in Ovide's sprinkles the door way with "drugged" water and places a branch of hawthorn in the window. In much later European lore, hawthorn is often considered as effective as garlic for the purpose of warding away or confining the undead vampires and the best material for stakes to pound through their hearts.

The word has a Greek origin and means "owl", with which bird it is usually identified. The Latin feminine plural form of "stryx" is "striges". In the modern Italian language, "striga" has become a general word for "witch".

The association of Striges with screech owls gave rise to the term owl-blasted, meaning wasting-away spell cast upon a man. The term was popular in Britain through the 16th century.

A strigoaica (singular feminine form), or Strigoica, is a witch. Strigoi are also known as "moroi" in some parts, especially rural areas. They are close relatives of the werewolves known as "pricolici" or "varcolac", the latter also meaning "goblin".

Strigoi have their origin in Romania, Transylvania included.

In Romanian mythology, strigoi (same form singular or plural) are the evil souls of the dead rising from the tombs (or living) that transform into an animal or phantomatic apparition during the night to haunt the countryside, troubling whoever it encounters.

According to Romanian mythology a strigoi has ginger hair, blue eyes and two hearts.

By Slovenian mythology a "štirga" is most likely a woman but there are exceptions when she is a male.

One of the ways for ending her powers is to expose her to public after witnessing her powers.

Folklore superstitions also says she can't be killed unless killed while she is feasting on the life-force of the prey.

Names are derived from striga, which in Romanian means "witch" or "barn owl", cognate with Italian strega, which means "witch", and descends from the Latin word strix, for a shrieking vampiric bird.

There are different types of strigoi:

strigoi vii are live witches who will become vampires after death.
They can send out their soul at night to meet with other witches or with Strigoi mort, who are dead vampires.

strigoi mort are the reanimated bodies which return to suck the blood of family, livestock, and neighbours. They are most often associated with vampires or zombies.
A person born with a caul (a veil of fetal membrane still attached to the head), tail, born out of wedlock, died an unnatural death, or died before baptism, was doomed to become a vampire. As was the seventh child of the same sex in a family, the child of a pregnant woman who didn't eat salt or was looked at by a vampire, or a witch. And naturally, being bitten by vampire, meant certain condemnation to a vampiric existence after death. Other people doomed to become a strigoi are:

unmarried people (their corpses should be stabbed in the hart with a sickle to protect their families).
corpses walked over by cats. To get rid of them, a wine bottle must be buried next to the grave, then six week later has to be exhumed and relatives and drank by relatives.
a person filled with pain and regret will turn into a cat or dog after death, then return as a strigoi. Piercing a body with a needle will prevent it from leaving the grave.
Strigoi are not necessarily evil though they are feared for their appearance bodes ill and they are omens of misfortune and sickness.

• In most ways, the Romanian Strigoi Morti resemble the undead vampires found in other Eastern European countries. They were frequently blamed as the cause of death in cases of epidemics.
• The Strigoi Vii join together in covens and meet with the Strigoi Morti on special Sabbath nights, such as the Eve of St. George April 22nd .

The Strigoi Viu is not a blood drinker, but its powers include what could be called psychic vampirism, as it can steal the vitality of his neighbours' crops and animals to enhance its own. Also, strigoi can leave its body at night in the form of an animal or a small spark of light that can be seen flying through the air. Sometimes it was said that a Strigoi Viu took animal form by stealing the form from the animal.

• a remedy against a strigoi to leave its grave is to bury a bottle of whiskey with the corpse: the strigoi will drink it and not return home
• Strigoi may be destroyed after exhuming their dormant bodies from the grave by such typical means as impaling them with a stake or by cremating them.
• the Gypsy remedy to kill a strigoi is the following: dig up the corpse, remove its heart, cut it in two, then dig a nail in the forehead, place garlic under its tongue, smearing the body with the fat of a pig killed on St. Ignatius' day. Then placing the corpse face-down back in the coffin.
• It was believed that if a strigo was not destroyed within seven years after burial, then on the seventh year it would no longer have to dwell in its own grave and could pass as a normal mortal human. According to one source, the strigoi also then loses his need to prey upon humans and, eventually, even animals. Like the Serbian vampire at such a stage, it would then depart to another region where it could not be recognized, marry, and have children But each week, from Friday night to Sunday morning, such a strigoi would either have to rest in a grave in a nearby cemetery or meet with the local strigoi for supernatural social activities. The children of such a vampire were all "living vampires", destined to become undead themselves.

A shapeshifting vampire in Romanian lore, either dead or living, as for the Strigoi.

The Strigoaica steals power from people and animals through psychic vampirism when alive, then returns as a vampire after her death.

The Strigoaica is famous for stealing the life-force of cows by sucking their milk, leaving the animal with none to give.

• A story out of Romanian folklore tells about a strigoiaca who had no cow of her own so she was forced to keep a wooden one in her house.

She kept it there, filling it with the milk of cows owned by others.

• Another tale, with Christian elements, narrates about the punishment waiting for the Strigoiaca, as one went to confession and told the priest she had taken powers from other people's cows.

The priest ordered her to take butter from the milk, then anoint a tree in the forest. Three days later she was supposed to go back to the tree to see what had happened. She did so and found that many kinds of creatures and snakes were in the butter. Then the priest told the Strigoiaca these creatures would suck her blood in the next world, because she had stolen so much power in this one.

This blood-sucking shapeshifter belongs to a class of evil spirits known as jumbies.

Thought to be an old woman, the Soucouyant is said to hide her skin under a stone mortar, the one she uses to grind her food.

Skins shed by the Soucouyant are very valuable in order to practice the Obeah magic.

If too much blood is drained, some theories say victims may die and become Soucoyant themselves.

Soucouyant may turn into a fire ball, then enters the house of victims though a hole or a keyhole.

It's still debatable whether the victim becomes a new Soucoyan or an existing Soucouyant possesses the dead victim's skin.

The Soucouyant must return to her skin by morning, hence possession of the skin by an Obeah gives control over the Soucouyant.

Soucouyants may be stopped by scattering rice or flour at the front of the doorway.

They will be forced to stop and count all the grains. As this can't possibly be achieved before dawn comes so the will lose their power.

A Soucouyant can be killed by visiting her place when she left her skin and sprinkling it with hot pepper, for she will burn to death once they try to put it back on.