VAMPIRE A supernatural sanguinarian being that feeds off the “life force” of others. They are represented in occult beliefs and popular culture throughout the world as nocturnal creatures that drink the blood of their victims.
VIDEO CAMERAS An important documentation tool in paranormal investigations that has the ability to record live action visuals and sound.
VILA A forest-nymph or woodland spirit from Slavic mythology that lives in meadows, ponds, oceans, trees, and clouds. They are said to appear as swans, horses, wolves, or young and beautiful women with long flowing hair, clad in white. They are reputed to have multiple abilities including the power to control storms, which they delight in sending down on unsuspecting travellers.
VISITANT A supernatural visitor thought to come from the spirit world; a ghost or specter.
VODYANOY A water sprite from Slavic folklore that possessed both human and fish-like features. They are depicted as benevolent old men in green coats in Czech fairy tales and as malevolent shape-shifters in Russian and other East-Slavic (similar to the nix of German fairy tales).
VOODO A syncretic religion practiced primarily in Haiti. Adherents are called “vodouisants” (servants of the spirits) and believe in a distant and unknowable creator god, Bondyè. They direct their worship toward subservient spirits called loa. There are many loa, and each is responsible for a particular aspect of ones life. To cope with life vodouisants cultivate personal relationships with the loa through the sacrifice of offerings on personal altars and devotional objects, as well as participating in elaborate ceremonies of music and dance that involve spirit possession.
VORTEX
A spiral or funnel of light that is generally long and narrow—thought to be a travelling spirit or spirits. Some experts feel that they may be the result of orbs that stop suddenly while on a downward trajectory.
An opening or doorway between the material world and the spirit world.
VALKYRIE In Norse and early Germanic-Gothic mythology, a spectral female chooser of the slain who flies over ancient battlefields to guide fallen warriors to the afterlife halls.
VEIL WALKER A folkloric Celtic and Visigothic mystic entity or wandering spirit capable of passing freely between the physical earth plane and the hidden realms of the dead.
VERITIST SHADE An intelligent, communicative ghost that manifests during deep nocturnal trances to reveal lost truths or unearth hidden historical secrets of an ancestral clan.
VOID DEMON A terrifying, formless entity from ancient demonological lore that dwells in the black spaces between dimensional veils and hungers for living psychic energy.
VERA CRUZ PHANTOM A spectral mariner or weeping shade from ancient Iberian and Visigothic coastal folklore that haunts foggy harbor docks, wailing for lost ships at sea.
VATE An ancient Celtic or druidic seer and spiritual medium who acted as an intermediary between the tribal mortal clans and the immortal deities of the Otherworld.
VALKYUR A fierce minor death-demon from early Germanic and Gothic war-lore said to feed upon the panic of soldiers before the closing of the shield-wall.
VAPOR SHADE A semi-visible, gaseous anomaly reported in ancient crypts and catacombs, resembling the condensing breath of a long-discarnate spirit lingering in cold stone vaults.
VALAC A powerful president of hell in classical demonological grimoires, often depicted as a poor boy with angel wings riding a two-headed dragon, possessing the power to reveal hidden treasures and locate serpents.
VUAL A mighty duke of hell from medieval demonology, depicted as an Arabic dromedary that transforms into human form and speaks the Egyptian tongue, granting the friendship of women and uncovering past or future events.
VETALA In ancient Hindu mythology and spiritism, a restless disembodied spirit or vampiric demon that enters and animates dead bodies and corpses, haunting cremation grounds to torment the living.
VOUIVRE A legendary winged dragon-serpent or serpentine elemental from French and European folklore, said to wear a blazing carbuncle jewel upon its forehead while guarding subterranean waters and hidden mineral veins.
VEPREL In ancient Slavic and East European folk demonology, a monstrous spectral boar said to root up the foundations of sacred boundary stones and bring ruinous nocturnal luck to remote homesteads.