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	A vârcolac in Romanian folklore may refer to several different figures. In some versions, a vârcolac is a wolf demon Demon In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as a malevolent spirit. In Christian terms demons are generally understood as fallen angels, formerly of God.... , which, like the Norse Norse mythology Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled.... Fenris, occasionally swallows the moon Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth.... and the sun Sun The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass.... and is thus responsible for eclipse Eclipse An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun , from verb , "I cease to exist," a combination of prefix , from preposition , "out," and of verb , "I am absent".... s. It may also refer to a wizard that has the power to turn into a wolf for camouflage. This so-called vârcolac had magical powers that made him be feared by local men and thus calling him a demon. Other legends say it is a ghost Ghost File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death.... or vampire Vampire Vampires are mythology or folklore Revenant who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive.... (Strigoi Strigoi In Romanian mythology, strigoi are the evil souls of the dead rising from the tombs that transform into an animal or phantomatic apparition during the night to haunt the countryside, troubling whoever it encounters.... ) while a third group of traditions say it is a werewolf Werewolf Werewolves, also known as lycanthropes from the Greek ????????p??, ????? and ?????p?? , are Mythology or folklore humans with the ability to shape shifting into Gray Wolf or anthropomorphism wolf-like creatures, either purposely, by being bitten by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse.... (in some versions, a werewolf that emerges from the corpses of babies ). In Romanian Romanian language Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova.... , vârcolac commonly means "werewolf". It can occasionally mean "goblin". The word vârcolac is a loan from Slavic Slavic languages File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.... (cf. Bulgarian Bulgarian language Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin... valkolak, Serbian Serbian language name=Serbian\|nativename=\|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]\|familycolor=Indo-European\|map=\|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America... vukodlak), originally meaning "werewolf" (etymologically "Wolf's Fur"). However, the term has come to denote mostly vampires in Balkan Slavic folklore. Nevertheless, the idea that the vârkolak is a wolf that swallows the sun and the moon is also attested in North-Western Bulgaria Bulgaria The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries.... . See also Vrykolakas Vrykolakas The vrykolakas , variant vorvolakas, is a harmful undead creature in Greek people folklore. It has similarities to many different legendary creatures, but is generally equated with the vampire of the folklore of the neighbouring Slavic countries.... for more details about the word. The pricolici Pricolici A Pricolici is a werewolf in Folklore of Romania. Similar to a v?rcolac, although the latter sometimes symbolises a goblin, whereas the pricolici always has wolf-like characteristics.... is another form of vârcolac, also resembling a werewolf. See also varkolak Varkolak A varkolak or valkolak is an undead Revenant or monster in Bulgarian people folklore. Its name is derived from a common Slavic languages term, which means werewolf in most Slavic languages as well as in modern literary Bulgarian, and is originally a compound of ???? /valk, "wolf"/ and ????? /dlaka, "fur"/.... vrykolakas Vrykolakas The vrykolakas , variant vorvolakas, is a harmful undead creature in Greek people folklore. It has similarities to many different legendary creatures, but is generally equated with the vampire of the folklore of the neighbouring Slavic countries....