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JACK-O-LANTERN

Other name for "Ignis Fatuus".
( from: Harry A. Senn "Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania" )

JAKHAI [ India ]

( from: J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" )

JAKHIN [ India ]

( from: J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" )

JAPERI [ Bulgaria ]

( from: Peter Mario Kreuter "Der Vampirglaube in Südosteuropa" )

JARACACA [ Brazil ]

Erroneous spelling of "Jararaca"
( from: Anthony Masters "The Natural History of the Vampire" )

JARACARA [ Brazil ]

Erroneous spelling of "Jararaca"
( from: Peter Haining "A Dictionary of Vampires" )

JARARACA [ Brazil ]

f. Espécie de serpentária do Brasil. ... Cobra venenosa da América do Sul.
Fig. Pessoa ruim, bicha; vibora.
( from: "Pequeno Dicionário Da Língua Portuguesa" )

Martha Argel was kind enough to report the following about the Jararaca:

"When I was a child (in the hinterland of the State of São Paulo), I heard countless times the tale of how jararacas fed on the milk of nursing women who were asleep. While they suckled the breast, they were said to put the tip of the tail into the baby's mouth, fooling it into suckling the tail so that it wouldn't cry and awake the mother. Jararacas were said to suckle milk from mares too. I never heard anything about blood, energy, life forces or the like."

That may be so, but there are all kinds of vampires, and to a little baby, milk is in fact its life force. And let us take a look at the second definition from the dictionary. Another word for "bicha" is "sanguessuga" or bloodsucker.

JÈCI [ Kashubia ]

( from: Jan L. Perkowski "Vampires of the Slavs" )

JEDOGONJA [ Serbia ]

( from: Jan L. Perkowski "Vampires of the Slavs" )

JEPIR [ Bulgaria ]

( from: Peter Mario Kreuter "Der Vampirglaube in Südosteuropa" )

JÉ-ROUGE [ Haiti ]

( from: Ian Woodward "The Werewolf Delusion" )

JIGARKHOR [ India ]

( from: Matthew Bunson "The Vampire Encyclopedia" )

JIGAR-KHOR [ India ]

Means: "liver eater" - Northern Idian type of witch.
( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

JIGARKHWAR [ India ]

( from: Sturm & Völker "Von denen Vampiren oder Menschensaugern" )

JIKI-KETSU-GAKI [ Japan ]

Spirits that are bloodsuckers.
( from: B.J. Hurwood "Passport to the Supernatural" )

JINN [ Arabia ]

( from: Montague Summers "The Vampire - his Kith and Kin" )

JOACHIMKEN [ Germany ]

( from: Sturm & Völker "Von denen Vampiren oder Menschensaugern" )

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