THE CONCORDANCE
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2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.
Eastern Europe · 2
StrzygaIn Polish and related lore, a strzyga (or striga) is often a person born with two souls or two hearts who becomes a predatory undead after death. Folklore and later fiction should not be collapsed into one rule.UpyrA Slavic term for a dangerous returning dead figure, often associated with improper burial or an unclean death. Later vampire fiction borrows the word but should not overwrite older regional meanings.
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