Vampire pumpkins and watermelons

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Vampire Fruit/Vegetables

"Blood" forms naturally on a few square centimeters of the outside of an aged watermelon. Another picture shows the whole melon
Grouping	Folklore
Sub grouping	Vampire
Country	Various
Region	Balkans

Vampire pumpkins and watermelons are a folk legend from the Balkans, in southeastern Europe, described by ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović. The story is associated with the Romani people of the region, from whom much of traditional vampire folklore originated.^[1]

The story was popularized by

Sources

• T. P. Vukanović, The Vampire; published in four parts in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society from 1957 to 1960. (excerpts)
  • (reprinted in) Jan L. Perkowski, Vampires of the Slavs (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1976)
• Matthew Bunson, The Vampire Encyclopedia (New York: Gramercy, 2000)
• Annotations for Carpe Jugulum (see the note for page 150).