1.
The Brahmaparusha
The Brahmaparusha vampire is the
brain-eating vampire from India and it is creepier than many other vampires.
The Brahmaparusha is a male vampire who has a strange habit of collecting its
victim’s intestines as trophies and wearing them around its head like a turban,
as a sign of power to show off how powerful he is. Pretty messed up right? This
vampire’s ego doesn’t stop there because it would also pour its victims blood
into a skull cup which it carries about for drinking blood. Once the vampire had drunk its victim’s
blood, it would proceed to crack the victim’s skull open, then feast on the
brain, which happens to be its favourite part. Finally after the vampire would
be done eating, it would tear open the victim and rip out their intestines
which he would then wrap around his head and neck and wear them as a trophy.
The vampire also has a big appetite and it would take more than a few victims
before it got its fill.
It is unknown how these vampires were
created. Some believe that it’s a demon who possesses a corpse or living person
in order to keep feeding, and it begins to eventually destroy the host body
from the inside. Unfortunately they are very fearsome and the only way to
prevent being eaten is to run away and hide somewhere and hope that it doesn’t
get you.
2.
The Aufhocker
The aufhocker is a German shapeshifting,
vampire-like creature which doesn’t have an identifiable form. The creature is known to take on a human
shape, the form of animals, and at other times it can appear to be like a
grotesque beast. The aufhocker is said
to most commonly take the form of a monstrously large dog, a little old woman,
or a businessman. The aufhocker is
considered to be extremely dangerous and it is classed as a vampire because its
preferred method of killing its victims is by ripping their throats out and
sucking their blood. The vampire is
known to lurk in any place which you may think of being “cliche” for an evil
entity to reside, such as graveyards, dark forests, a crossing at a road, and anywhere
that someone has been murdered.
The vampire stalks lonely people whilst its
hidden under the cover of night, then when its prey’s backs are turned, it
proceeds to jump on top of their back, paralysing them as they try to
escape. There are two main ways in which
the vampire’s unlucky victims are overpowered and brought down to the
ground. One method is that the victims
are too frightened by the attack, that they lose consciousness and collapse,
while others state that when the creature jumps on its victim’s backs, it
continues to grow in size and weight, and for every step that the victim takes,
the creature grows even larger, resulting in the victim collapsing under all of
the weight. The vampire can then enjoy
its blood meal, as its victim lies helpless.
The aufhocker cannot be killed, but it can
be frightened away by the sound or church bells, sunlight, and by the victim
praying (Good luck to them!). This is
one more reason for some of us not to walk outside alone at night!
3.
The Azeman Vampire
The azeman is a vampire in folklore from
Surinam, which is situated north of Brazil, and it is in South America. This vampire can be male or female, and it
has the ability to shape-shift into different animals which it uses to search
for pray during the night, and it is not classified as “undead” because the
vampire is a living person who chooses to transform at night, and who cannot be
easily identified as a vampire when they are in their human form.
Similar to many European vampires, the
azeman has a very bad habit or obligation to count things, and people can use
this as a way to distract the vampire during an attack and run to safety,
defend their home from the threat of attack, or even distract the vampire until
daylight. A good way to protect yourself
from this vampire is to put a pile of seeds in front of your house entrances
and windows, so that the vampire will have to count them all before they are
able to enter the premises. Protecting
yourself from a vampire and farming at the same time is like killing two birds
with one stone right?
A way to discover who the vampire is, is to
get a big pile of seeds and scatter them when you see the azeman, so that it
will take a very long time to count them all, resulting in the process taking
until morning, then the azeman turns into their human form, and it can be
identified. This type of vampire does
not die when the sun shines on it, but if someone sees it transforming back
into a human, they can use other “methods” to get rid of the vampire, before it
gets rid of you.
4.
The Vampire from Berwik
In Berwik, England, there was once a
vampire known as the Berwik vampire.
There once lived a religious man who everyone looked up to, but when he
died, it was discovered that he had lived a life full of sin, and everyone
disliked him afterwards. The man died,
possibly as a result of a plague, and since no one was too fond of the sins
that he committed, he was denied to be buried in a normal graveyard, therefore
his grave stood alone on unconsecrated grounds.
Soon after the man was buried, a pale
apparition which resembled the man, was seen roaming the streets at night and
attracting the attention of many dogs who followed him around, and barked
endlessly all night long. Residents were
too afraid to walk outside at night, in case they crossed paths with the wicked
creature and its hellhounds. Disease
began to spread around and some people thought that it was caused by the vile
man getting revenge and spreading a plague.
A group of people eventually decided to try and fix the problem,
therefore they went to the man’s grave during the day, dug him out, chopped his
body into numerous pieces, then finally burned the body, in hope that this
would destroy the undead phantom for good.
After all of this took place, the man ceased to wander the streets at
night, and the loud barking of dogs also stopped, thus assuring the residents
that evil had been vanquished and once again, they were free to walk the
streets at night. All did not go to well
afterwards, because the plague returned to Berwik and many of its population
perished, but many believed that it was caused by the previous presence of the
vampire.
5.
The Jaracaca
The jaracaca is a vampire from Brazil, and
isn’t quite like your everyday vampire.
The jaracaca usually appears in the shape of a snake, and it loves to
drink blood and a woman’s breast milk!
The vampire slithers its way between a nursing mother and her child
while the mother sleeps, and then it puts the end of its tail into the baby’s
mouth in order to keep it quiet, so that it can then drink the mother’s breast
milk undetected.
This vampire prefers milk to blood, and will
only drink blood from anyone if there is not enough milk available for it to
drink until it is satisfied. The
jaracaca doesn’t only pose as a danger by drinking your blood, but it can also
secret venom into its victims, which then results in the victim going
crazy. Waking up crazy isn’t something
that most of us plan every night before we go to bed!
