Collection DA·K·0002
Vampires of Eastern Europe
Vampires, strigoi, Vurdalak and revenants: restless dead in Eastern Europe, across documents, folklore and literary inventions.
The collection
A comparative bestiary of the returning dead in Eastern Europe.
Network
Connections
4 direct connections · 20 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
Creatures (4)
Vurdalak
- Area
- Russia, Balkans
- Earliest attestations
- 19th century (literary form)
Revenant
- Area
- Medieval England, Western Europe
- Earliest attestations
- Twelfth-century English chronicles
Strigoi
- Area
- Romania, Moldavia
- Earliest attestations
- Nineteenth-century folklore collections
Vampire
- Area
- Balkans, Central Europe
- Earliest attestations
- 1725 (Kisiljevo case)
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Vurdalak
- La famiglia del Vurdalak source · via Vurdalak
- La Guzla source · via Vurdalak
- The family vampire motif · via Vurdalak
- The vampire child motif · via Vurdalak
- Eastern Europe place · via Vurdalak
- Night of the Devils film · via Vurdalak
- Sem’ja vurdalakov film · via Vurdalak
- Black Sabbath film · via Vurdalak
- Boris Karloff person · via Vurdalak
- A. K. Tolstoy person · via Vurdalak
- Theft from the dead motif · via Revenant
- Protections against the dead belief or ritual · via Revenant
- Historia rerum Anglicarum (William of Newburgh) source · via Revenant
- Visum et Repertum source · via Vampire
- Kisiljevo place · via Vampire
- Medveđa place · via Vampire
- The threshold and invitation belief or ritual · via Vampire
- The Vampyre (Polidori, 1819) source · via Vampire
- Dracula (Stoker, 1897) source · via Vampire
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Vampires of Eastern Europe», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·K·0002, updated 20 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/collections/vampiri-europa-orientale/