Nelle leggende degli zingari è un uomo nato da donna umana e padre vampiro. Egli, grazie a questa sua discendenza, possiede il potere di combattere ed uccidere tutti i vampiri. Intorno agli anni sessanta del nostro secolo esisteva in serbia un dhampir, Murat di Vrbica, studiato dal folklorista e vampirologo Vukanovic, che scovava e uccideva i vampiri con un normale fucile: il suo compenso era di mille dinari o dieci capretti.

Tatomir Vukanović

Tatomir P. Vukanović (1907–1997) was a prominent historian and ethnologist of the Balkans region of south-eastern Europe. Born in Serbia, he concentrated on the history, folklore and culture of the Serb and Roma (Gypsy) inhabitants of Yugoslavia in general and the southern province of Kosovo in particular.

Bibliography

"The Vampire". Four articles in Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (JGLS) from 1957 to 1960
"The Gypsy Population in Yugoslavia". JGLS, Third Series, Vol. XLII, Nos. 1-2 (January-April 1963), pp.10-27.
"Ritual Communion Among Gypsies in Serbia" (1964). JGLS 43:22
"Gypsy Pilgrimages to the Monastery of Gračanica in Serbia" (1966). JGLS 45:17
Romi (Tsigani) u Jugoslaviji. Vranje: Nova Jugoslavija, 1983

Riferimenti Bibliografici

T. P. Vukanović. 1957-1959. "The Vampire." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 3rd ser. Part 1: 36(3-4): 125-133; Part 2: 37(1-2): 21-31; Part 3: 37(3-4): 111-118; Part 4: 39(1-2): 44-55. Reprinted in Vampires of the Slavs, ed. Jan Perkowski (Cambridge, Mass.: Slavica, 1976), 201-234. The reprint lacks footnotes. Most material on dhampirs is in part 4, under the heading "Dhampir as the Chief Magician for the Destruction of Vampires."