THE UNDEAD

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The undead are beings that even though are definitely deceased demonstrate some aspects of still being among the living.

This grouping will include ghosts, spirits and corporeal beings such as vampires and zombies. While ghosts, spirits and apparitions can spook and terrify us into believing we are losing our minds - vampires and zombies can physically attack us and sometimes transform us into one of them.

It would seem very common in tales that most ghosts and spirits become a hassle or threat to the living only when they seek closure over an evil deed that was once carried out against them while they were still among the living. 

Since they are essentially sentenced to exist in limbo while forever waiting, being tortured and taunted with the lack of resolve and/or vengeance, a means to an end is the only thing they desire and seek. 



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Others are just evil to the core for absolutely no reason - perhaps puppets or mere soldiers at the mercy and command of a much greater evil.

Physically enabled beings such as vampires and zombies have terrorized and forced us to try and overtime prove some very effective techniques to help the living guard against them. 

Depending on which story you read though, it is very difficult to feel 100% confident that most, if any of these methods would actually work. That is probably why in many accounts, the preyed upon often try to use many if not all defense methods hoping that something will finally do the trick. 


THE A-Z LIST

Baital - Human looking, brown skin, boney with bat wings

Banshee - A young woman, a distinguished matron or a tousled old hag

Black Dog - Extremely large, black canine ghost

Boogeyman - Shadows that transform into a feared monster


Cu Sith - Enormous, dark green hound

Diwata - Male or female guardian spirits

Draugr - Ghosts of fallen Vikings

Drekavac - Dog`s body with large kangaroo-like hind legs 

Fairies - Human-looking spirits with magical powers


Ghouls - Undead, decomposing human body

Grim Reaper - Skull face wearing a black cloak and hood

Gwyllion - Ugly female spirits that relish in mischief

Headless Horseman - A horse riding ghost with no head

Inugami - Canine spirit


Kitsune - Fox spirit with magical powers and many tails

Lich - Skeletal looking and extremely clever animated corpse

Mummies - Corpses wrapped in thin strips of linen

Oni - Huge bodies, horns, wide mouths


Skeletal Warriors - Weapon yielding humanoid skeletons

Tengu - Head of a beaked man with the wings and talons of a large crow

Tokoloshe - Child-size body, pale skin, eyes and brain removed


Vampires - Human looking creatures in need of blood to survive

Varcolac – Large undead wolf demon

Wendigo - Bony body, crooked teeth, disfigured face

Wraiths - Dark ghostly bodies of ultimate evil


Yuki-Onna - Ghost of a beautiful woman with see through skin

Zombies - Reanimated corpses


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