(Oo-PEER)
Variations: Oupyr, Uppyr
This Russian vampire revenant is created when a heretic, sorcerer, or witch dies or as the child of a werewolf and a witch. Active between noon and midnight it looks like a normal person and preys on the children of a family and then moves on to the parents. After draining the victim of blood it will open a hole in the chest with its ironlike teeth and consume the heart.
Its grave can only be found by attaching a spool of thread to its clothing and following the thread. The grave must be soaked in Holy water and a stake driving though it in a single blow or the vampire will still rise. "Another method of destruction is to decapitate the vampire and burn its corpse to ashes."
GURPS Blood Types groups Ubour, Upior, Upyr, and Upi together and lists the countries of origin as Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, but no other information
References[]
- Bane, Theresa (2010) Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology McFarland pg 137-8
- Upyr (Vampire Underground)