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ZBURATOR [ Romania ]

Romanian type of vampire.
( from: Claude Lecouteux "Histoire des Vampires" )

Actually, the word "Zburãtor" is used to indicate almost anything that flies through the air.

ZMEU [ Moldavia ]

( from: Nigel Jackson "Compleat Vampyre" )

ZMITTSJATA [ SubCarpathic Russia ]

Child that has died unbaptised and has turned into a vampire.
( from: Pëtr Bogatyrëv "Vampires in the Carpathians" )

ZMORI [ Poland ]

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

ZÕBI [ Haiti ]

This is a living person, whose soul or "gros bon-ange" has been caught by a sorcerer and who lives in a lethargic state, like one of the undead.
( from: Laënnec Hurbon "Dieu dans le Vaudou Haitien" )

ZOMBI [ Antilles ]

( from: Francois Ribadeau Dumas "A la Recherche des Vampires" )

ZOMBIE [ Haiti ]

( from: Ornella Volta "Le Vampire" )

ZORZOLACAS [ Chios - Greece ]

( from: Thevenot "Relation d'un Voyage au Levant" )

ZOTZ [ Mayas ]

( from: Lynn Myring "Vampires, Werewolves & Demons" )

ZUNSELWIBLI [ Aargau ]

Female type of "Ignis Fatuus".
( from: E. H. Meyer "Mythologie der Germanen" )

ZWIESAUGER [ Germany ]

see: "Doppelsauger".
( from: "Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubes" )

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