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from which (p.
410) I cite the following passage was published early in 1872. Of Vampires he writes: "The
name itself has never been satisfactorily explained. In its form of vampir [South Russian
upuiranciently
upir]it has been compared with the Lithuanian
wempti = to drinkand
wempti
wampiti = to growlto mutterand it has been derived from a root
pi [to drink] with
the prefix u = av
va. If this derivation is correctthe characteristic of the vampire is a kind
of blood-drunkenness. In accordance with this idea the Croatians called the vampire
pijauica; the Servians say of a man whose face is coloured by constant drinkingthat he is
'blood-red as a vampire'; and both the Servians and the Slovaks term a hard drinker a
Vlkodlak. The Slovenes and Kashubes call the vampire vieszeya name akin to that borne by
the witch in our own language as well as in Russian. The Poles name him upior or upirthe
latter being his designation among the Czekhs also." The Istrian vampire is strigonand
among the Wallachians there is a vampire called murony. In Greece there are some local
names for the vampire(Cyprus){Greek
sarkwme'nos}the one who has put on flesh;
(Tenos){Greek
a?naikaeou'menos}he who sits up in his gravein Cythnos{Greek
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