-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pacu Pati A powerful vampire from India. The creature is deemed lord of all beings of mischief. It is seem at night in cemetries and palces of execution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pelesit A Malaysian spirit vampire. It invades a persons body, causing illness and death. Victims will rant and rave while under its poession. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Penanggalan A Malysian vampire, which flies at night with only the head and neck of its body complete and with its intestines dangling beneath them. The creature is always female and generally feeds on children or women in labour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pijavica A Slovenian vampire. It is created as a result of evils perpetrated during a persons mortal life, particularly incest which is guaranteed to cause ones return as a member of the undead. It generally feeds on relatives or descendents. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pisacha A vampire from India, said to be a creature created by humanitys vices. While it is in general an evil deity, its favourite past time being the consumption of fresh corpses, it can also cure diseases if enticed too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Polong A vampiric imp from Malaysia, created by bottleing the blood of a murdered man and performing certain archaic rituals over the bottle, a bond is made between the creator of the Polong and itself by allowing it to feed briefly each day on a finger. It is closely associated with Pelesit Rakshasa A vampire from India, whose name translates as "the injurer". The female assumes the form of a beautiful woman, luring man to their death. In the newer legends the Rakhassa is said to live in trees and induces vomiting and indegestion in people who stray into its territory. A child will be transformed into such a creature if he can be induced to eat human brains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramanga A living vampire found in Madagascar. A servant of the tribal elders the Ramanga would consume the nail clippings and spilled blood of a noble member of the tribe Stregoni benefici An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Striges A female witch-vampire which could transforn into a crow and would then drink the blood of humans. Classified among the living vampires. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strigoii The infamous Romanian dead vampire. There numerous ways to become a Strigoii, including being a seventh son and suicide. Generally said to be friendly towards Gypsys. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Succubus A female vampire, a fiend that visits men in there sleep to torment their dreams and engage them in sex. The Succubus could render a victim totally exhausted in its pursuit of carnal pleasure. Talamaur A living vampire found in Australia. This creature could communicate with the spirit world, making one of these spirits its servant which it could then send among the living. One version of the Talamaur could send out its soul to drain the remaining life essence from a fresh corpse. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tlaciques Vampiric witches found among the Nahuatl Indians of Mexico. They can turn into a ball of flame or into a turkey, in which form they can feed unnoticed.

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