Vampires in Middle Eastern folklore


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The vampire in the Middle East folklore is considered the main transit and exchange point between the myths of the West and those of the East, there are several traditions of vampire mythology. Stored by wikitesto

For example, in the thousand and one night, we find many stories in which monsters, demons, and other terrible creatures infest the cemeteries and drive the deserted streets, assaulting solitary travelers to drink their blood. All these monsters are in fact related to the jinn category, which also belong to the deities (shayāṭīn).

In the Arab Peninsula, in Turkey, but also in Persia, the fear of gūla, a real ghul, was widely widespread, rather than a vampire. He is a female demon, able to fly and who prefers cemeteries as a place of action: pure spirit, rather than suck the blood of his victims, prefer to strip them of their lives. It is interesting to note that Islamic populations bonded the sense of blood not only to the vital essence, but to the soul itself, and have modified the myth of the vampire that tears the soul, and not just life, through the theft of blood fluid. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

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