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Cihuacoatl. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Cihuacoatl (Chee-AH-co-til)

Cihuacoatl is the vampiric goddess of the Aztec people from ancient Mexico and one of the four princesses who accompany the goddess Tlalteuctli. Cihuacoatl means “Serpent Woman”, the name no doubt having been derived from the cloak she is depicted as wearing, as it looks like the hood of a snake. She is shown holding a rattle in her left hand and a serpent in her right, but she has also been rendered as holding a baby in one hand and a knife in the other. Always thirsting for human blood, she painted her body with chalk and donned a white gown to go wandering the streets calling out for the people to go to war, as prisoners were sacrificed to her. When not using so direct a method in demanding sacrifice, she would leave an empty cradle with a knife in it at a well- used source of water. Perhaps she was sending the message that if prisoners of war were sacrificed to her, then she would not have to start taking children.

Source: Aguilar-Moreno, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World, 86-87, 147, 148, 191, 192; Markman, The Flayed God, 217; Salas, Soldaderas, 5; Turner, Dictionary of Ancient Deities, 129

Churel. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Churel (CHUR-el)
Variations: ALVANTIN, CHEDIPE, Churail, Churreyls, MUKAI, Nahulai

In India, when a woman dies an unnatural death or in childbirth, she will return as a type of undead (see UNDEATH). However, if she should do so during the five-day Festival of Diwali, she returns specifically as the vampiric REVENANT known as a churel.

Churels are an extremely ugly species of vampire in their true form, having backward-facing feet; a black tongue; sagging breasts; thick, rough lips; and wild HAIR. However, the churel has the ability to shape- shift as it is occasionally described as being a beautiful woman who carries a lantern.

A bitter creature, carrying the anger of her early and tragic death, the churel starts its vampiric life by attacking the male members of its family. Beginning with the youngest and most handsome man in its family line, it will seduce him and drain him dry of his blood, leaving only a shriveled husk of an old man behind. Once the men of its family are used up, it will move on to others, stalking the roadways and luring lone male travelers astray. Sometimes it will capture a man and take him back to its lair in a graveyard. There, it will keep him prisoner, feeding off him a little at a time.

In some places to the south, there is the practice of making a Stonehenge- like structure at the entryway to the village that is blessed in order to keep a churel from entering.

Source: Briggs, The ChamIrs, 129-131; Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion, 69-70, 72, 168-171; Kiev, Magic, 135, 136; Taylor, Death and the Afterlife, 67

Chupa-Chupa. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chupa-Chupa
Variations: The Animal, The Apparatus, The Beast from the Sky, The Bug, Chupa, Chupa Sanguine, Disco Voador (“Flying Saucer”), The Fire, The Light, The Machine, The Thing, Vampire in the Sky, Vampire UFO

In South and Central America, often accompanying reports of CHUPACABRA sightings, are witnesses claiming to have seen red beams of light coming from the sky and targeting a person’s chest. These lights are commonly referred to as chupachupa, Brazilian for “suck-suck”. Once the lights have locked on, they begin to burn and boil away a “significant” amount of blood. Victims, both animal and human alike, are left feeling numb and weak, running a low-grade fever, and suffering from lingering headaches. Also, there are the telling burn marks that are seared onto their chests. Oftentimes, these burns will have three small puncture marks within them that form a triangle.

Source: DiAntonio, Brazilian Fiction, 134; Icon Group International, Inc., Foresters, 191; Slater, Dance of the Dolphin, 258

Chupacabra. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chupacabra (Chew-pa-COB-rha)

The chupacabra, the well- known “goat sucker” of Mexico, is one of the best- known vampiric creatures. The first recorded sighting of the beast was by the governor of New Galicia in April of 1540. He described one as being a small, darkscaled man who carried a torch and a spear, and when it attacked, it did so in large numbers. It was also reported that the creature was an excellent jumper and could cover a great distance in a single leap. As time passed, the description of the chupacabra changed, and each one varied widely from a foxlike animal with bat wings, cat eyes, and blue skin to a thick-bodied, furless, quadruped type canine. There have also been a number of different theories as to what the chupacabra is exactly. Ideas range from an extraterrestrial creature and escaped genetic hybrid to the more mundane explanation that it is merely an animal of the natural world that has previously been unrecorded or is simply suffering from a bad case of mange. What is not in dispute is that the chupacabra, regardless of what it is or where it came from, is a blood-drinking creature.

So far, all of the known victims of the chupacabra have been an array of domestic animals: chickens, cows, goats, and sheep. The chupacabra uses its amazing stealth to sneak up on the animal, killing it quickly and from surprise before it can sound an alarm. In the morning, the animal carcass is found with the smallest of bite marks on its body and completely drained of blood, with not a single drop to be found anywhere on the ground. Interestingly, in the year 2000 campers and other nature enthusiasts claimed to have seen the chupacabra in their campsites at night and when they awoke in the morning, they discovered that their water bottles had been stolen.

Chuiaels. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chuiaels (CHEW-ee-ales)
Variations: Cijurreyls

There is a vampiric demon in Hindu lore that is called a chuiaels. Created when a woman dies woman that lures men into its bed. Akin to the SUCCUBUS, it has a reputation of being an excellent lover from the few men who survived this experience to report upon it. They claim that during the act of fellatio, it literally drains away their life (see ENERGY VAMPIRE).

Source: Masters, Eros and Evil

Чуйяелс
Вариант: Чиджуррьелс

В индуистком фольклоре есть вампирическая демоница, которая называется чуйяелс. Возникающая, когда женщина умирает при родах, чуйяелс возвращается как красивая женщина, завлекающая мужчин в свою постель. Схожая с суккубом, она имеет репутацию отличной любовницы, благодаря тем мужчинам, которые пережили этот опыт и сообщили об этом. Они утверждают, что во время фелляции, она буквально высасывает из них жизненную силу (смотри «Энергетический вампир»).

Источник: Masters, «Eros and Evil»

Chordeva. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chordeva (Core-DEV-ah)
Variations: Chordewa, Cordewa

There is a VAMPIRIC WITCH or vampiric demon that terrorizes the Oraon hill tribe in Bengal, India, known as a chordeva. By shape-shifting its soul into the form of a cat, the chordeva (“thief-demon”) sends it out to prey on the old and sick by stealing their food and poisoning what little morsels it leaves behind. While using its cat form, it can kill a person merely by licking the person’s lips. This is why all cats are kept away from anyone who can be perceived as a potential victim, even though the chordeva can be detected by the particular type of mewing it makes. Although it can also shape-shift into a were-cat, a chordeva is only as strong as an average person; however, it has the ability in its werecat form to place its victim in a trance by direct eye contact.

The chordeva is repelled by water of any kind, as well as HAWTHORN. Anything that would kill a normal cat will destroy the chordeva’s cat form, and the physical damage that is delivered will instantly become visible on the chordeva’s human body. When it is in its human guise, a wooden or iron stake driven through the heart will kill the vampire, as will prolonged exposure to sunlight. However, it is completely indestructible in its were-cat form.

Source: Briggs, The Chamārs, 134; Crooke, Religion and Folklore of Northern India, 208; Meyer, Sexual Life in Ancient India, 392; Sinha, Religious Life in Tribal India, 41

Chonchonyi. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chonchonyi (Chon-CHUN-ly)

A vampiric spirit from Argentina, the chonchonyi looks like a human with big ears, which it uses to fly to the home of sick people. It sneaks inside their homes and, when no one is looking, drains them dry of their blood.

Source: Carlyon, Guide to the Gods, 58; Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, 80; Turner, Dictionary of Ancient Beings, 127

Чончоньи

Чончоньи — вампирический дух из Аргентины, выглядит как человек с большими ушами, которые он использует, чтобы залетать в дома больных людей. Он незаметно пробирается внутрь и, когда никто не смотрит, досуха высасывает из них кровь.

Источники: Carlyon, «Guide to the Gods», 58; Rose, «Giants, Monsters, and Dragons», 80; Turner, «Dictionary of Ancient Beings», 127

Chonchon. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Chonchon (CHON-chin)
Variations: Piguechen (“vampire”)

The Araucanian Indians of Chile have the belief that through a mere act of will, a person can become a chonchon, growing wings out of its ears and flapping so hard that it rips the head free of the body and flies away. Some sources say that this only happens after the person is deceased. The Mapuche Indians in the same area say that the chonchon is a bird with the head of a kalku, a sorcerer. Its cry sounds like “tui-tui-tui”. Whether it is a flying head or a bird, it feeds on human blood and can shape- shift to look like a person with large ears.

Source: Alexander, Latin- American, 329; Edwards, My NativeLand, 395; Van Scott, The Encyclopedia of Hell, 287

Ch’ing Shih. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Ch’ing Shih (Cha-ing SHE)
Variation: Chiang- Shi, Chiang Shih, Ch’iang-Shih, Ch’ing-Shih, Ch’ling Shih, Gaing Shi, “The Hopping Vampire of Asia”, Kiang-Kouei, Kiang Shi, Kiang-Shi, Kiangshi, Kouei, Kuang-Shi, Kuang- Shii, Kyonshi, Xianhshi

Known the world over as the “hopping vampire”, the mythology specifically regarding the ch’ing shih originates in the lands between Siberia and China. This vampiric REVENANT is created in the typical fashion of most Chinese vampires — when a cat jumps over a corpse, if a person has been cursed to rise as the undead, or if a person has the misfortune of dying far from home and not being returned there for burial (see UNDEATH). No matter how it is created, the ch’ing shih will return with red eyes, curved fingernails, serrated teeth, and pale GREEN-white skin that gives off a phosphorescent glow. As it ages, its HAIR continues to grow and changes from whatever its current color is to pure white. When it has a long and full mane of HAIR, it is considered physically matured. The ch’ing shih feeds off the blood of men, but with its voracious sexual appetite it is well known to first rape and then devour the bodies of women.

After it rises from the dead as a vampire, the ch’ing shih will have the ability to shape- shift into a CORPSE CANDLE. However, once it reaches maturity, it will have the ability to fly of its own accord, track its prey by scent, and shapeshift into the form of a wolf. Its breath is so foul that it can kill a person if it exhales directly on someone.

The ch’ing shih is blind and it has difficulty crossing running water. Its power is derived from the moon, so during the day and on moonless nights it stays in its underground dwelling. Although it is afraid of thunder and loud noises, the only thing it is truly fearful of is the White Emperor, to whose court it must pay homage.

Children of Judas. Статья из "Энциклопедии вампирской мифологии" Т.Бэйн

Children of Judas

Considered to be the worst of the Bulgarian species of vampires, the Children of Judas is the clan name for a family of vampires alleged to be the direct descendants of Judas Iscariot. All the vampires in this clan have a full head of bright red HAIR just as it is believed Judas had. Found throughout Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia, when a Child of Judas attacks its victims, it leaves behind a scar that looks like the Roman numeral 30: XXX. The scar is thus shaped to signify the 30 pieces of silver that were given to Judas for his part in betraying Christ to the Romans. Almost exclusive to this species of vampire, its bite is referred to as a kiss.

Source: Masters, Natural History of the Vampire, 189; Summers, Vampire: His Kith and Kin, 183; Tannahill, Flesh and Blood, 122

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