Bogomil Vampire
The product of religious and political turmoil between the 10th and 15 centuries, the Bogomil Vampire in reality more of a revenant or possessing spirit than the classical Slavic Vampire. The Bogomil vampire is the soul of a former Bogomil, driven mad by its corpse repeatedly being disinterred and reburied under different religious funerary rites, multiple times.
The Bogomil Vampire hunts down and kills those of the religion that were the first to disinter it’s body and rebury under their own religious funerary rites. Typically this means they will hunt Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox and less often, Muslims. They possess the buried corpses being to members of the Faith that were the first to disturb their rest.
Appearance: As they are possessing a corpse, their appearance is dictated by the state of the corpse they inhabit.
Power: The Bogomil Vampire possess…
Superhuman strength (2H or 3H depending on the state of the corpse w/ knockdown)
Superhuman Speed if the corpse is not too decade
It can sense religious belief and faith
Holy symbols made after it’s first death have no affect on it. The Holy Ground of it’s target faith does not effect it.
How to kill a Bogomil Vampire?
As it is a possessing spirit, destroying the body does not stop the Bogomil. It’s spirit will simply move on to the next corpse.
The proper way steps to stop a Bogomil is…
1)Drive a metal spike through its heart,
2) then jam a brick in it’s mouth
3) then severe it’s head
4) then bury it in a coffin with the Bogomil star symbol carved in the four cardinal directions in the interior of the coffin.
This process will severe the spirit from the material world permanently.
GREAT Monster!