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Krsnik (vampire hunter), the Glossary

A krsnik (female: krsnica) or kresnik is a type of vampire hunter, a shaman whose spirit wanders from the body in the form of an animal.^[1]

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Croatian folklore
Shapeshifters
Slovene mythology

Angel

In Abrahamic religious traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and some sects of other belief-systems like Hinduism and Buddhism, an angel is a heavenly supernatural or spiritual being.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Benandanti

The benandanti ("Good Walkers") were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northeastern Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Christianization

Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity.

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Collectible card game

A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards.

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Demon

A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.

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Fabula (journal)

Fabula (from lat. fabula: "story, fable") is a multilingual academic journal on comparative folklore studies with a focus on European narratives (such as fairy tales, sagas, and fables).

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Friuli

Friuli (Friûl; Friul or Friułi; Furlanija; Friaul) is a historical region of northeast Italy.

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Keri Arthur

Keri Arthur (born 4 December 1967) is a writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and romance novels from Melbourne, Australia.

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Kresnik (deity)

Kresnik (or rarely Kersnik and Krsnik) is a Slavic god associated with fire, the summer solstice, and storms. Krsnik (vampire hunter) and Kresnik (deity) are Slovene mythology.

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Megami Tensei, marketed internationally as Shin Megami Tensei (formerly Revelations), is a Japanese media franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki.

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Mytheme

In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed—a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways ("bundled") or linked in more complicated relationships.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Shadowverse

Shadowverse is a digital collectible card game developed and published by Cygames.

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Studia mythologica Slavica

Studia mythologica Slavica is a Slovene academic journal dedicated to ethnology, history, archaeology, linguistics, religious studies, literary history and philosophy in the context of Slavic mythology.

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Tales of Xillia

is an action role-playing game released exclusively for the PlayStation 3.

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Tales of Xillia 2

is an action role-playing game for the PlayStation 3 released on November 1, 2012, in Japan.

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Trinity Blood

is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in The Sneaker.

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Vampire

A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vampire hunter

Vampire hunter or vampire slayer is a fictional occupation in folklore and fiction which specializes in finding vampires, and sometimes other supernatural creatures. Krsnik (vampire hunter) and vampire hunter are fictional vampire hunters.

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Vampire literature

Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

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Vedmak

In Slavic mythology, a vedmak (вядзьмак, вядзьмар; вещер; vještac; vědmák; вештер; wiedźmak; ведьмак; вештац; відьмак) is a warlock or male witch, the female equivalent (witch) being vedma, but unlike the latter, the vedmak may also possess positive qualities.

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Vila (fairy)

A vila, or víla (plural: vile, or víly; samodiva, samojuda; víla, samodiva, divoženka; vila; wiła; vila; víla; vila) is a Slavic fairy similar to a nymph. Krsnik (vampire hunter) and vila (fairy) are Croatian folklore.

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Wendigo

Wendigo is a mythological creature or evil spirit originating from Algonquian folklore.

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Zduhać

A zduhać (Cyrillic: здухаћ) and vetrovnjak (ветровњак) in Serbian tradition, and a dragon man in Bulgarian, Macedonian and southern Serbian traditions, were men believed to have an inborn supernatural ability to protect their estate, village, or region against destructive weather conditions, such as storms, hail, or torrential rains.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krsnik_(vampire_hunter)

Also known as Crusnik, Cruznik, Krsnik.