28+ Folklore Japanese Vampire

Vampire in popular legend a creature often fanged that preys upon humans generally by consuming their blood.

Folklore japanese vampire. Despite the occurrence of vampire like creatures in these ancient civilizations the folklore for. De moraine les tribunaux secrets 1864. Brahmaparush india breslan vampire 17th century breslau poland bruja spain and central america bruxa portugal males being called bruxo. Cultures such as the mesopotamians hebrews ancient greeks and romans had tales of demonic entities and blood drinking spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. Possibly the most vampirelike of the numerous mythological beings was the kappa. The blow vampire 1706 kadam bohemia blutsauger germany variant. It is also known as phi dip chin in thai hantu pocong in malay and vampir cina in indonesia.

Described as fabulous creatures of the waters rivers ponds lakes and the sea the kappas penetrated the japanese culture and now appear in fiction cartoons toys and art. Legends of vampires have existed for millennia. Vampires have been featured in folklore and fiction of various cultures for hundreds of years predominantly in europe although belief in them has waned in modern times. However it wasn t until the early 1800 s that the vampire legends could be clearly separated from the revenant legends. As time went on there were many different variations of the vampire tale. A jiangshi also known as a chinese hopping vampire or hopping zombie is a type of reanimated corpse in chinese legends and folklore the characters for jiangshi are read geung si in cantonese cương thi in vietnamese gangsi in korean and kyonshī in japanese.

Le vampire lithograph by r. Japan vampires in pop culture t he varied creatures of japanese folklore did not include a classical bloodsucking vampire. 2 as happened to the werewolves the figure of the vampire was acquired by the japanese culture from the western culture because japan has no native legends about these creatures even thought this fact the japan adopted these myths and created new beings according to its culture the japanese supernatural creatures called yokai are beings analogues to monsters demons and every other creatures. According to folklore. Boraro colombian folklore.