Wuwelak (more)

[Rob Klein]

For our Greek members regarding Wuwelak: I remember reading about an evil 
spirit (of bad luck) called "Vrovoleka" or "Frovoleka" from a Greek story. 
There was also an American film from 1940 or 1941, starring Boris Karloff which 
included that old Greek legend. he played a general in the Greek army, who 
ordered the entire populace of an island to remain in quarantine, as his army 
doctor had found bubonic plague there.  The old-fashioned supersticious 
islanders claimed that the outbreak of plague was caused by the "Frovoleka" 
(evil spirit). They claimed that the "murderous general and his evil war" had 
brought that evil spirit to the island as a punishment.  The "Frovoleka" is 
supposed to suck all the life out of its victims (as a vampyre).  This is very 
close to "Wuwelak" (noting that the letter "W" in Germanic and Slavic languages 
is pronounced as English "V", as is the Greek sound in the same position in 
that word.  Could the Frovoleka have the same original ancient Indo-European 
source as the (Slavic?) terms we remember as meaning "monster", "vampyre", and 
changeling spirit?

Rob
Klein

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