Variations: Catacani, Catakano, Kathakano, “The Happy Vampire”
Locations: Crete and Rhodes
This vampire revenant smiles all the time, showing off its teeth.
It spits regurgitated blood. If this sticky and burning hits a person they become a Catacano.
This species of vampire can be destroyed by decapitating and boiling its head in vinegar, trapping it and isolating it behind saltwater, or burning its nails off.
Varieties of Vampires gives a very simplified description of this vampire.
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- Bane, Theresa (2010) Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology McFarland pg 43