List of 'vampire' and vampire types from around the
world
Astralia
Mrart
A vampire-like creature (often referred to as a
ghost of a dead member of the area, or a stranger) and was
specifically powerful in the dark, often trying to drag victims away
from a campsite.Aboriginies
also believed a second soul existed that could sometimes inhabit
another person’s body or could live in the bush and torment its
living relatives.Dead
bodies were weighted down in aboriginal burial rites, or their legs
were broken.The
possessions of the dead were destroyed and its campsite abandoned.
Talamaur
A living vampire type found in the Banks
Islands, near Australia.The
people of Banks Island believed in the possibility of ‘lively’
intercourse with the ghosts of the dead.Some feared the dead, but others welcomed interaction with the
spirit world.Being either male or female, the talamaur was said to be able
to communicate with ghosts, establishing a close relationship with a
dead individual and making it a familiar, or a servant that could be
sent to affect the living.Some
accounts of talamaur causing evil in communities were told that the
suspected talamaur was seized and forced to smell the smoke of burning
leaves until confessing to being the master of a spirit, and giving
the name or names of the creatures being used and the living
individual who was to be the victim.
Another type of talamaur was a person, also
called a tarunga, who could end out his or her soul to consume the
lingering life essence left in a newly dead person.This was often confirmed by dreams and visions.The approach of such to a new grave is said to hear like a
scatching or rustling at a door.
It was not a crime to be a talamaur, and some
people actually projected the image of being one.
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