Gyeong

vampire · South Korea · East Asia and Pacific

Not independently attested in folklore literature. No Korean source records a vampire called 'gyeong'. The Korean term for the hopping corpse is gangsi (gangshi), a loan from the Chinese jiangshi; 'gyeong' is not attested as a creature name, and the description is generic jiangshi filler wrongly assigned a Korean variant.

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