Videvik(kogu raamat Inglise keeles)
victims;
they also seemed like constructs created to explain away the high mortality rates for young
children, and
to give men an excuse for infidelity. Many of the stories involved bodiless spirits and warnings
against
improper burials. There wasn't much that sounded like the movies I'd seen, and only a very few,
like the
Hebrew Estrie and the Polish Upier, who were even preoccupied with drinking blood.
Only three entries really caught my attention: the Romanian Varacolaci, a powerful undead being
who
could appear as a beautiful, pale-skinned human, the Slovak Nelapsi, a creature so strong and fast
it
could massacre an entire village in the single hour after midnight, and one other, the Stregoni
benefici.
About this last there was only one brief sentence.
Stregoni benefici: An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of
all evil vampires.