| Name of Species | Country | How it becomes a vampire | Approved method of disposal |
| Owenga Otgiruru |
Africa | Reincarnation of old evil sorcerers | |
| (a) Sampiro (b) Liugat |
Albania | (a) Natural causes | (a) Stake through heart |
| Ghul | Arabia | It is a desert-devil that eats corpses | |
| Nachtzehrer | Bavaria | Being born with a second skin | Coin in mouth, cutting off head with an axe |
| Blautsager | Bosnia- Herzegovina |
Bitten by another Blautsager | Put hawthorne in his coffin; he/she will have to pick them up, so the sunrise will destroy him/her. |
| Ogoljen Mura |
Bohemia | Burial at crossroads | |
| Lobishomen | Brazil | Linked to lycanthropy | Nail him to a tree with daggers |
| Moribund | Brittany Cornwall |
Bit by a werewolf | |
| Krvopijac Obour |
Bulgaria | Did unholy acts, like orgies during Lent | Chain it to the grave with wild roses |
| Katacan | Ceylon | It is a kind of zombie | |
| Ch'Ing Shi Ch'Ing Shuh |
China | An iron blade through his heart | |
| Kathakano | Crete | Boiling head in vinegar | |
| Pijavica | Croatia | Incest with mother | Cutting off head and putting it between legs |
| Vilkodlak | Czech Lands | ||
| Kuzlak | Dalmatia | Weaning before time | Transfixing with a hawthorne bough |
| Lamia Empusa |
Greece (Ancient) |
Demoniacal origin | |
| Brukulaco Brucolak |
Greece | Son of an excommunicate or the excommunicate himself | Cutting off and burning head |
| Farkaskoldus | Hungary | It is a werewolf that sucks blood and steels babies | Burning or the touch of Holy Water |
| Liderc nadaly Vampir |
Hungary | Eating from an executed human`s flesh |
Stake through heart; nail through temples |
| Punyaiama | India | ||
| Strigon | Istria | A hawthorne branch through the heart | |
| Vampiro | Italy | ||
| Dearg-dul | Ireland | Piling stones on its grave | |
| Vryolakas | Macedonia | Natural causes | Pouring boiling oil on it; driving nail in its navel |
| Penaggalan | Malasia | ||
| Cianteteo | Mexico | Witchcraft | |
| Drakul Drtakul |
Moravia Moldavia Romania |
One possessed | Steal his shroud from his coffin and destroy it |
| Vrukolak | Morlachia | (as Vryolakas) | (as Vryolakas) |
| Vourdalak | Moldavia Bosnia Turkey |
Killed by another Vourdalak | Cut off head and burn it |
| Upier and Upierzyca | Poland | When born with teeth | Bury face downwards |
| Gierach (Stryz) | Prussia | Putting poppy seeds in grave | |
| Lemures Striges Mormos |
Rome (Ancient) |
Evil spirits | |
| Myertovets Vurdalak Upierzhy |
Russia | Son of were-wolf or witch; Witchcraft | Transfixing it with a stake through its chest, driving stake through heart; to be hit only once, otherwise revives |
| (a) Strigoiul (b) Muronul |
Rumania | Born out of wedlock to parents begotten out of wedlock | (a) Taking out its heart and cutting
it in two; garlic in mouth, nail in head (b) Nail through forehead or stake through heart |
| Vukodlak | Slovenia | ||
| Vlkoslak Mulo Dhampir |
Serbia | Incest or killed by a were-wolf; being stillborn | Cutting off its toes; driving nail in its neck |
| Neuntoter | Saxony | Lemon in its mouth | |
| Vampiro | Spain | No known remedy | |
| Vampyr | Sweden | ||
| Bruxsa | Portugal | Witchcraft | No known remedy |
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