The Albanian word for Vampire is Dhampir Dham teeth and Pir drink suck In the Albanian language the verb pir pin pi means simultaneously to drink and to suck e g the albanians say mushkonja shushunja me ka pir gjakun the mosquito leech sucked my blood Thus the name Dhampir means Teeth sucker sucking via teeth Dhampir is the original name of the later corrupted and slavicized vampir Dhampirs are evil nightly creatures with sharp and long teeth very strong quick heavy and are mostly invisible to the eyes of the normal People They fear the fire the running water and the daylight but like the music These are dead people which were angry They get up from the grave and come at night bite people and animals and drinks their blood Dhampirs are very sadistic they terrify beat up rape women kill and eat people Only a Dhampirash Dhampirash the child of a vampire father and a human mother is capable to see the Dhampires and knows how to fight or kill them He must make a circle from some burnable material and blood on the ground afterward he lures the vampire into the circle while positioning himself in the middle of the circle playing the fife recorder or whistling Then he puts fire on the circle so that the terrified Dhampire from the fire can not flee forcing the Dhampire to fight him Dhampirash must kill and burn the Dhampir or new Dhampires will rise from every glow of these fires of a circle When he has him killed and completely burnt he must take his ashes cinders and throw them in a river I told shortly and only the most important one Old tales from the Albanian folklore Kosovo Slavs Romanians and Roma Gypsies can not pronounce the Albanian letter DH DH TH English like in The Then They This That etc so they usually replace it by the more convenient letter V And some of Slavic people replace it by letter L e g the Bosnians When a Slav serv Romanian or Roma Gypsie spells the Albanian word Dham for Teeth he pronounces it as Vam because he is incapable to say Dham teeth The Bosnians spells it as Lam Dham When the Slavs came to Europe they came into contact with the Albanian Pelasgo Illyrian tales Later they changed corrupted and slavicized the name Dhampir into Vampir and Lampir similar to other Albanian words because they could not pronounce the original name Dhampir Now they try to claim these words for themselves as well as others that were similarly amended from the Albanian vacabulary but the original meaning of these words is lost because they carry no connotation in Slavic or any other language except for Albanian Wikipedia Serbian vampir or according to some sources from Hungarian V mp r The Serbian and Hungarian forms have parallels in virtually all Slavic languages The Bosnian Lampir which was the name of the oldest recorded vampire Meho Lampir Bulgarian Vampir If Romanians Vlachs and bulgarians speak Albanian they say eve means edhe also Via means Dhia goat Uve Udhe path Voma Dhoma room Vam Dham tooth and Vampir Dhampir Vampire And if the Bosnians speak Albanian they say ele means edhe also Lia means Dhia goat Ule Udhe path Loma dhoma room Lam Dham tooth and Lampir Dhampir Vampire The Albanian word for the female vampires is Dhampiresha Dhampireshe e g Luan m Luanesha e f lion m lioness f etc There are also Albanian surname Dhampiri and this surname means Vampire n s