Avullushe (vapor smotherers)
Avullushe / Avullushja
Smothering vapor / nightmare being;
Description
Northern Albanian spirits that suffocate humans with breath or steam — vapor demons of northern highland demonology (Elsie 2001:18–19). Nocturnal smothering; nightmare/steam motif related to the Balkan mora / makth complex. Makth (Elsie 2001:164; Shqipopedia) rides this short page as a named smothering face in the same vapor field.
Features
- suffocate with breath/steam (avullushe, N)
- sit on sleeper / cut breath (makth)
- catch-bargain: caught makth must grant demand
Lead story
Night in the north does not always bring a corpse. Sometimes it brings steam. Avullushe — named from avull, the breath you can see — settles on the sleeper until the chest will not rise. No fangs. No grave-skin. Only vapor and the old fear that air itself can pin a body to the bed. Makth answers under the same short page.
Aliases
avullushe · avullushja · avullore · makth (section / redirect) · të rëndët e dheut · ankth (lexical → makth section)
Region
Northern Albanian vapor/breath smotherers (Elsie); shared nightmare field with makth (pan-folk + Balkan mora areal)
Relations
- Abe (cloak phantom)near
- Bardha (white mist maidens)soft kinship
- Lugat (pest-revenant)not the same as
- Flama (disease ghost)nightmare cluster
- Hija (shade / soul-shadow)soft nightmare adjacency
- Makth (nightmare incubus)not the same as
- Angu (sleeper-crusher)not the same as
Linked stories
- Shtriga, Flama, and AvullusheRecorded
Shtriga drinks infant blood; Flama personifies disease; Avullushe smother with vapor. Keep them in the blood–nightmare cluster, not as one kind.
- Makth and AvullusheRecorded
Makth: incubus suffocation and wish bargain. Avullushe keeps vapor smotherers.
- Abe the cloak phantomReconstructed
Abe is a woman’s shape in a coarse aba cloak—Elsie’s thin phantom stub.