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 :: The Albanian word for Vampire is Dhampir (Dham = teeth and Pir = drink/suck) … In the Albanian language the verb pir/pin/pi means simultaneously to drink and to suck … (e.g. the albanians say: ""mushkonja/shushunja me ka pir gjakun"" = ""the mosquito/leech sucked my blood""). Thus the name Dhampir means Teeth-sucker … sucking via teeth. Dhampir is the original name of the later corrupted and slavicized ""vampir"". Dhampirs are evil nightly creatures with sharp and long teeth, very strong, quick, heavy and are mostly invisible to the eyes of the normal People. They fear the fire, the running water and the daylight, but like the music. These are dead people which were angry. They get up from the grave and come at night, bite people and animals and drinks their blood. Dhampirs are very sadistic; they terrify, beat up, rape women, kill and eat people. 

  
 ::Only a Dhampirash (Dhampirash = the child of a vampire father and a human mother) is capable to see the Dhampires, and knows how to fight or kill them. 

 ::He must make a circle from some burnable material and blood on the ground; afterward he lures the vampire into the circle while positioning himself in the middle of the circle, playing the fife (recorder) or whistling. Then he puts fire on the circle, so that the terrified Dhampire from the fire cannot flee, forcing the Dhampire to fight him. 

 ::Dhampirash must kill and burn the Dhampir, or new Dhampires will rise from every glow of these fires of a circle. When he has him killed and completely burnt, he must take his ashes/cinders and throw them in a river. (I told shortly and only the most important one) 

  
 ::Old tales from the Albanian folklore (Kosovo). 

  
 ::Slavs, Romanians and Roma (Gypsies) cannot pronounce the Albanian letter DH (DH = TH English like in The,Then,They,This,That etc.) so they usually replace it by the more convenient letter V. And some of Slavic people replace it by letter L (e.g. the Bosnians). 

 ::When a Slav (serv), Romanian or Roma (Gypsie) spells the Albanian word Dham for Teeth, he pronounces it as Vam (?), because he is incapable to say Dham (teeth). The Bosnians spells it as Lam (Dham). 

 ::When the Slavs came to Europe, they came into contact with the Albanian (Pelasgo-Illyrian) tales. Later they changed, corrupted and slavicized the name Dhampir into ""Vampir"" and ""Lampir"" (similar to other Albanian words), because they could not pronounce the original name Dhampir. Now, they try to claim these words for themselves, as well as others that were similarly amended from the Albanian vacabulary, but the original meaning of these words is lost, because they carry no connotation in Slavic or any other language, except for Albanian. 

 ::(Wikipedia: Serbian вампир/vampir, or, according to some sources, from Hungarian Vámpír. The Serbian and Hungarian forms have parallels in virtually all Slavic languages. The Bosnian Lampir which was the name of the oldest recorded vampire Meho Lampir.: Bulgarian вампир (Vampir)...) 

  
 ::If Romanians/Vlachs and bulgarians speak Albanian, they say: ""eve"" (means edhe = also), ""Via "" (means Dhia = goat), ""Uve"" (Udhe = path), ""Voma"" (Dhoma = room), ""Vam"" (Dham = tooth) and ""Vampir"" (Dhampir = Vampire) 

  
 ::And if the Bosnians speak Albanian, they say: ""ele"" (means edhe = also), ""Lia "" (means Dhia = goat), ""Ule"" (Udhe = path), ""Loma"" (dhoma = room), ""Lam"" (Dham = tooth) and ""Lampir"" (Dhampir = Vampire). 

  
 ::The Albanian word for the female vampires is Dhampiresha/Dhampireshe ... (e.g., Luan (m) Luanesha/e (f) = lion (m) lioness (f) etc. 

  
 ::There are also Albanian surname ""Dhampiri"", and this surname means ""Vampire"". 

  
 ::Ænës"