Gayal (India)

Gayal are vampiric creatures that crave human flesh and blood. Like their Western counterparts, they sleep in their graves during the day and emerge only at night to hunt.

Gayal are believed to rise under two conditions. First, when an individual dies without an heir but longs for a successor, their resentment is said to transform them into a gayal. Another circumstance is when the deceased is not given a proper burial. A gayal that rises from this situation is said to hunt down the male relatives of their bloodline, blaming them for the lack of funeral rites.