Occult Bestiary: 9 Eurasian Vampires

Eurasiam Vampires
Eurasian countries are basically countries which are strategically in terms of geographical location, located at the bordering areas between Asia and Europe.
Such nations to generalize it, are Eurasia countries as they are somewhat half Asian and half  European.   They could also be considered countries that were invaded or saw movement by Mongol Hordes.

The below will be a summary list of some of Vampires of the Eurasia region.

Armenia - Dakhanavar

Dakhanavar protected a valley near Mount Ararat by sucking blood from the feet of travellers. When two men slept with their feet under each other's heads Dakhanavar mistook them for a monster with two heads and no feet and was never heard of again.

Deeper Than Oil: Magical Services

Weekly column by Marc Bennetts

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the introduction of wanton capitalism, smalltime Russian entrepreneurs took advantage of the new and novel opportunities to advertise their skills. Inspired by the success of Kremlin-backed psychics Allan Chumak and Anatoly Kashpirovsky, the country’s many occultists quickly joined in the fun.

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Occult Paintings: A German painter’s dark artwork gets resurrected at the Frye Art Museum

By Emma McAleavy

Corpses, saints, martyrs and witches populate the artistic world of Alfred Von Keller, a world that can be visited at the Frye Art museum's Séance exhibit.

Frye director and curator Jo-Anne Bernie Danzker has collaborated with curator Gian Casper Bott to bring together a collection of Keller's paintings from the Kunsthause Zurich Museum for the first ever solo exhibit of Keller's work, in America. The exhibit focuses on themes of trance, altered states of conscience and the occult.

Keller's paintings are technically as well as thematically complex.
"What you have with Keller is this dual identity. You have one part of the painting that is quite realistic and then you have this paint that is just flowing everywhere," said Bernie Danzker.
Keller's paintings will often have vivid, expressive figures next to blurred, faceless wraiths. He tried to capture the experience of trance and catalepsy (a form of corporeal rigidity that occurs in trance) in his work.

羅漢寺の紅葉 Rakanji-temple

Lurking in the halls of Buddhist temples and museums across Japan are a host of monster mummies -- the preserved remains of demons, mermaids, kappa, tengu, raijū, and even human monks.
A much smaller mummy -- said to be that of a baby demon -- was once in the possession of Rakanji Temple at Yabakei (Oita prefecture).
Unfortunately, it was rumored destroyed in a fire in 1943. Other rumors persist that it was stolen by followers of Miyuki Ishikawa for occult purposes.


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