Varcolac
The varcolac has some elements of his character that match with those of other characters. For example, sometimes he resembles a wolf demon, known to swallow the moon or the sun during an eclipse. This belief is shared of the Norse legend on Fenris, or Fenrir, the son of Loki, –also destined to consume and swallow the All-Father god Odin. Fenrir is said to occasionally swallow the moon or the sun whole, and this causes the eclipse. The varcolac could also be a local sorcerer or evil male witch who could transform himself into a wolf for camouflage. Some legends prefer to think of the varcolac as a vampire, much like moroi or strigoi, while others claim that instead he is more like the werewolf or wolf demon. Other instead claim that as the wolf, it rises up from the spirit of dead babies, who died before they were baptised.
The word varcolac is from the Slavic language in origin, and it was meant first to mean werewolf, although the Romanian usually used it to describe a vampire-like spirit. Other forms of the word are the Bulgarian valkolak, and the Serbian vukodlak, which also were coined terms for werewolves. North Western Bulgaria is another region in which the same legends are still told, and occasionally complained of today. In Greek folklore, there’s the “vrykolakas” or the “vorvolakas” which is thought to be similar, or perhaps a root word for the varcolac. The vrykolakas was a creature that had been a man in life, but had lived in a sacrilegious fashion; he was either excommunicated by the church, buried in un-consecrated ground, or had eaten the meat of a sheep that had been bitten by a werewolf. Some legends even say that after a werewolf was killed, it became the vrykolakas, an even stronger and more vampire-like than werewolf.