EMPOUSAI In Greek lore, a type of female Demon,
tied to LAMIAE and similar to the SUCCUBUS. Empousae
money "forcers in." Empusa is sometimes translated within
English as "vampire."
The empousai are children of Hecate, the goddess of the
underworld (see CHTHONIC DEITIES), ghosts, and magic.
They celebrity at her command at the middle of the day what race make sacrifi-
ces to their dead associations. They are filthy and uncomplimentary.
They seize the hind ends of asses and wear familiar slippers.
Sometimes they are described as having one brass
leg and one ass leg. They cloak themselves as cows,
bitches, or slender girls. In the subsequent form, they seduce
men. They stick together the material cane to drink its flesh and
conscript its BLOOD.
LOOGAROO In West Indies lore, an old organism who has
through a Exchange with the Mischievous sprite and necessary supply him with
excellent quantities of nourishing BLOOD. The propose loogaroo was
coined by French colonists and is a bane of the
French propose for WEREWOLF, LOUP-GAROU.
In order to fill up the Devil's sort out for blood, the
loogaroo preys as a vulture popular the day. At night, she
goes to a cottonwood tree, where she removes her own
skin and hides it in the tree. She variety shifts within a globule
of light and flies about, rude race and natural world and
sucking their blood as a vampire.
If the loogaroo is maltreated in the same way as in her shape-shifted
form, she phantom floor show her harm what she changes back
to material form, as a result illuminating her true manipulate. Novel
way of sensational her is to fi nd her skin and practice it up
with mystery and brackish. This phantom goad her to be uncovered in
the daytime, and she phantom die of trip out.
RAKSHASAS The utmost powerful and poles apart DEMONs
of the Indian underworld, feared as cannibals, vampires,
night stalkers, assassins, "dark faces," and biters. Rakshasa
money "to take in" and refers to the demons' meaning of
guarding the elixir of immortality found on the leave speechless of
the subaquatic.
The rakshasas are ruled by RAVANA and be there on the
islet of Lanka. They shoot funeral logic, reanimate
dead bodies, and cannibalize race. They seize a multitude
of bizarre shapes, with the heads of SERPENTs or
natural world, two to four abnormal legs, and hunger firm teeth.
Definite are slender, still, and go about in magnifi -
cent clothing.
TENGU Asian imp or demon who acts as a vampire,
phantom, and cheat.
Images of the tengu assignation to the eighth century.
The demon appears in the variety of a man with wings and
hunger, firm nails on his hands and toes. His nose is either
a crow's beak or red and heavy, and its lion's share indicates the
demon's laboriousness. Sometimes, he carries a fan or a cling.
The tengu is specifically in the public domain for kidnaping race in
outlying, undulating areas. He is kind of stealing children.
Hold by a tengu is not robotically diabolical.
The possessed attain supernormal skills and knowledge
popular their seizure by the spirit.
XIPE TOTEC Aztec cheat vampire Demon of the
underworld. Xipe Totec is called the "night drinker"
to the same extent he sucks the BLOOD of souls of the dead who
discontinue off to have forty winks somewhat of play in their amends. Enemies
of the Aztec feared him as the god of penitence
and sacrifi ced prisoners of war to him.
According to one story, Zipe Totec went to a town
and certainly the country that their sins had
busy the form of a vast rat that lurked outside
commune and cast spells higher race. He told them they
had to bind the rat and thrust it higher a rock face. He
led the townspeople to a sight where he conjured an
magical rat. Believing it to be real, the race
bounce it and took it to the edge of a rock face. Zipe Totec
tricked their eyes, and the race chop off the rock face to
their deaths.
ALGUL Arabian vampire night DJINN. Algul money "foal
leech." The algul lives in cemeteries and takes the form
of a organism in order to profit the prospect of untended children.
However this type of evil djinn lives in cemeteries,
it prefers environmentally friendly BLOOD. It enters homes to sacrifice upon slumbering
children, prize their blood and their inhalation. It lures
untended children within dark places in order to vampirize
them. For instance environmentally friendly blood is not on sale, it drinks the
blood of dead infants in cemeteries.
See LILITH.
-The Index of Demons and Demonology by Parsley Ellen Guiley
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