On the Caribbean island of Granada, there is the Loogaroo. This is a woman, usually who in leged is in league with the devil. Under the deal she will get magical abilities only if she gives the devil blood every night.        The term Loogaroo possibly comes from the French mythological creature called the Loup-garou which is a type of werewolf, but the belief is also mixed with african voodoo.    The Loogaroo can leave its own skin, turn into a flame and haunt the night serching for blood for the devil. After it collecs enough blood, it can return to its skin, resuming human form. This creature is apparently compulsive and must stop to count grains of sand spread upon the ground. So, a defense against it, if you were bothered by such a monster, was to leave a pile of rice or sand next to your front door. Hopefully, the creature would take a long time to count it all, and when the sun would eventually rise in the morning, the Loogaroo would have returned to its skin, without making an attack.     The loogaroo is an example of how vampire belief can result from a combination of beliefs -  here is a mixture of french and african. The            Loogaroo is also evidence that not all vampires have slavic accents, although many certainly seem to. With the vampire having been found in many lands, naturally it has many names.    The term vampir was used in Russia and in other slavic lands such as Poland and serbia. The word vampir may possibly be derived from the magyar language, although some say that vampir is related to the russian word peets which means to drink. Vrykolakas was the Greek term for vampire. The greek vampire may have been a person who was excommunicated from the Orthodox church prior to death.    Ekimmu was a vam[pire spirit of acient Babylonian times, which rose from the dead when hungry, especially if foolish humans forgot to leave food sacrifices near his grave. When hungry he returned to earth for human blood.    Murony was a vampire from Wallachia which was a shapeshifter as well as a bloodsucker. It could change its form into a dog, a cat, an insect, or another creature. In Wallachian lore, a person who died unexpectedly was highly suspect of becoming a vampire. Sometimes a long spike or nail was punched into the skull of a dead body to prevent it from returning form the grave. The Murony may also be seen as a werewolf, a living human who became a dog or wolf at night and hunted other animals, especially cattle.    Lithuanian vampires apparently got drunk on blood, not being content to simpply have a sp or two of the bright, red liquid. In Lithuanian the word wempti meant "to drink".    The english word vampire, also vampyre, was first seen in the 1700's. its exact origin unknown. it may have its roots in the turkish word ubar. this word underwent a metamorphosis to Slavic tones to sound like upior or upyr, eventually resulting in the words vampyre, vampir, and then vampire.    In Sanskirt the monster was a Baital. there were other terms for this monster, from the Spanish vampiro and latin vampryus, to the unquestionably german sounding Blutsaeuger (literally bloodsucker) and the french version, Le Vampire.    "Nosferatu" is another Eastern European term for vampire, or at least it is believed to be. The western world became aquainted with this term first with the Irish writer, Bram Stroker in his novel Dracula. Later in 1922, the word appeared again with the first film ever made about the Transylvanian count, called of course, "Nosferatu". (there were eralier silent films about vampires but they non longer exsist for viewing purposes).