Dhampir (living vampire-hunter)
Dhampir / Dhampiri
Living son of a lugat and a human mother (usually a widow or living wife).
Description
Features
- sees invisible lugat
- shoots / kills lugat harming cattle (byre vigil)
- blood-in-ear proof of hit (Tirta)
Lead story
Aliases
dhampir · dhampiri · Dhampiraj (surname) · vampirović (Slavic role analogue)
Region
Pan-Balkan hunter role with Albanianized name; Tirta cattle-hunt ritual; onomastic Dhampiraj
Relations
Linked stories
- Blood in the animal’s earRecorded
Living son of a lugat keeps night watch at the cattle byre, sees the invisible pest, fires; proof falls as blood in the ear. He eats ordinary food.
Poloska’s Macedonian/Albanian dialect strige/striga is the blood-witch under another spelling. Cradle, moth, spit-cure stay on shtriga; add NMK regional note only.
In Tomorr-area lore, lugat may escalate toward kukudh; dhampir hunter lore sits nearby as a related — related restless-dead cluster, not a pan-Albanian blood-vampire identity merge with Constantine.
