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PACU-PATI [ India ]

( from: Matthew Bunson "The Vampire Encyclopedia" )

PACUPATI [ India ]

( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

PALUKAH [ Oriental ]

( from: Ernest Jones "On the Nightmare" )

PAMGRI [ Hungary ]

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

PANANGGALN [ India ]

( from: Ernest Jones "On the Vampire" )

PÂNANGGLAN [ India ]

( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

PAPABAWAS [ Zanzibar ]

( from: Peter Haining "A Dictionary of Vampires" )

PATIANAK [ Philippines ]

Bloodsucking soul of an unbaptised child
( from: "Journal of American Folklore" )

PELESIT [ Malaysia ]

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

PELEST [ Malaysia ]

( from: "Monster Book of Vampires" )

PÊNANGAL [ India ]

( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

PENANGELAM [ Indo-China ]

( from: Ernest Jones "On the Nightmare" )

PENANGGALAN [ Malaysia ]

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

PÊNANGGALEN [ Malaya ]

( from: Nancy Garden "Vampires" )

PENANGGLAN [ Malaysia ]

( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

PENNANGGALAN [ Malaysia ]

( from: B.J. Hurwood "Terror by Night" )

PENNANGGALAM [ Malaysia ]

( from: "Le Musée des Vampires" )

PICACAS [ India ]

( from: "Mythologie Générale" )

PIGUCHEN [ Chile ]

( from: McHargue "Meet the Vampire" )

PIJAUICA [ Croatia ]

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

PIJAVICA [ Croatia ]

( from: Gabriel Ronay "The Dracula Myth" )

PIJAVIKA [ Croatia ]

( from: Peter Haining "A Dictionary of Vampires" )

PIJAWICA [ Croatia ]

( from: Matthew Bunson "The Vampire Encyclopedia" )

PIJAWIKA [ Croatia ]

( from: Ornella Volta "The Vampire" )

PIJVICA [ Croatia, Slovenia ]

( from: Nigel Jackson "Compleat Vampyre" )

PIKULAS [ Lithuania ]

( from: "Mythologie Générale" )

PIPASANG [ Occitan language ]

vampire, bloodsucker.
( from: Dictionary )

PISACA [ India ]

( from: Rosemary Ellen Guiley "The Complete Vampire Companian" )

PISÂCHÂ [ India ]

( from: Dudley Wright "Vampires and Vampirism" )

PISÂCHAS [ India ]

( from: Ernest Jones "On the Nightmare" )

PISHAUCHEES [ India ]

( from: R.E.L. Masters "Eros and Evil" )

PISHTAKO [ Bolivia ]

( from: Nathan Wachtel "Dieux et Vampires" )

PITARAS [ India ]

Dead forefathers in the shape of birds. Can be benevolent or malevolent.
( from: E. H. Meyer "Mythologie der Germanen" )

PLÃTENIK [ Bulgaria ]

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

PLATNIK [ Bulgaria ]

( from: Claude Lecouteux "Histoire des Vampires" )

PLOTENIK [ Bulgaria ]

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

PLOTNIK [ Bulgaria ]

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

PLUTNIK [ Bulgaria ]

( from: Jan L. Perkowski "Daemon Contamination" )

PLUTENIK [ Bulgaria ]

Name for vampire in Northern Bulgaria.
( from: Ivanichka Georgieva "Bulgarian Mythology" )

POCITOR [ Romania ]

Local name used to indicate a vampire.
( from: Adrien Cremene "Mythologie du Vampire en Roumanie" )

POLEDNICA [ Slavs ]

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

POLONG [ Malaysia ]

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

POLUDNICA [ Slavs ]

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

POLUDNITSI [ Czechs ]

Evil spirits that attacked young mothers and their babies.
( from: Ivanichka Georgieva "Bulgarian Mythology" )

POLUDNIOWKA [ Poland ]

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

PONTIANAK [ Malaysia ]

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

PONTIANAKS [ Java ]

Bloodsucking demons that emanate from corpses.
( from: Ernest Jones "On the Nightmare" )

PORCELNIK [ Russia ]

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

PRALING [ Cambodia ]

The malicious ghosts of women who have died giving birth.
( from: Pierre Bitard "Le Monde du Sorcier au Cambodge" )

PRETA [ India ]

The newly dead who wander around hungry.
( from: E.H. Meyer "Mythologie der Germanen" )

PRICCOLITSCH [ Wallachia ]

( from: Montague Summers )

PRICOLICI [ Romania ]

( from: Arthur & Albert Schott "Rumänische Volkserzählungen aus dem Banat" )

PRICOLICIONE [ Romania ]

( from: Arthur & Albert Schott "Rumänische Volkserzählungen aus dem Banat" )

PRICULICI [ Romania ]

( from: Arthur & Albert Schott "Rumänische Volkserzählungen aus dem Banat" )

PRICULICIONE [ Romania ]

( from: Arthur & Albert Schott "Rumänische Volkserzählungen aus dem Banat" )

PRIECOLITSCHONE [ Wallachia ]

( from: Peter Haining )

PRIKOLICS [ Transylvania ]

( from: Tekla Dömötör "A Magyar né Hiedelemvilága" )

PRIKOLITSCH [ Wallachia ]

( from: Nigel Jackson "Compleat Vampyre" )

PRIKOSAC [ Croatia ]

( from: Jan L. Perkowski "The Darkling" )

PRIKOSAC [ Serbia ]

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

PRYCCOLITCH [ Romania ]

Type of vampire closest to the werewolf.
( from: Adrien Cremene "Mythologie du Vampire en Roumanie" )

PRZYPOLUDNICA [ Poland ]

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

PUNYAIAMA [ India ]

( from: Ornella Volta "The Vampire" )

PURKULICS [ Transylvania ]

( from: Tekla Dömötör "A Magyar né Hiedelemvilága" )

PÜTZHÜPFER [ Germany ]

Other German name for "Ignis Fatuus".
( from: E. H. Meyer "Mythologie der Germanen" )

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