Variation: Edimmu (“Hollow”), Ekimmu (“Robber”), Ekimu, “Evil Wind Gusts,” Lamassu (“Bullgod”), Shedu
Location: Assyria
This type of vampiric spirit goes back to 4000 BCE and making it one of the first and oldest myths. This myth would influence the myths of they Babylonians, Egyptians, and Inuit. This vampire, desiring to live again, is bitter and angry. It kills people and then animates their body.
It is created when burial procedures are not followed, when a woman dies pregnant or giving birth, if love is never realized, if a person dies of starvation, heat exhaustion, or leaves behind no surviving family.
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- Bane, Theresa (2010) Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology McFarland pg 59