What types of vampires are in existence?

This is a sampler of vampire legends from around the world.


- Asasabonsam: W. African. Folklore of the Ashanti people. Asasabonsam
are human looking vampires except that they have hooks instead of feet
and iron teeth. The Asasabonsam are tree dwelling vampires that live
deep in the forest. They sit in the tops of trees with their legs
dangling down which enables them to catch their victims with their
hooked feet. They tend to bite their victims on the thumb.

- Baital: Indian. These vampires natural form is that of a half-man,
half-bat creature roughly four feet tall. They are otherwise
unremarkable.

- Bajang: Malaysian. The bajang normally take the form of polecats.
Sorcerers could enslave and force them to kill his enemies, and some
families were believed to be hereditarily stalked by the bajang.

- Baobhan Sith: Scottish. The baobhan sith (pronounced buh-van she) are
evil fairies who appear as beautiful young women and will dance with
men they find until the men are exhausted and then feed on them. The
baobhan sith can be harmed and destroyed by cold iron.

- Callicantzaros (also spelled as Kallikantzaros): Medieval and Modern
Greece. According to Christian Greek folk belief, a child born during
the time from the beginning of Christmas to New Year's Day (or, in
some versions, to Epiphany, Jan. 6) will become a callicantzaros. It
is also during this period of the year that the callicantzaroi become
a threat to normal humans. Then they roam the countryside, sleeping in
caves during the day and entering villages at night. They can appear
half-human, half-animal shapes. At the end of this period, they travel
down caverns or other tunnels to Hades where they remain until the
next Christmas. While on the world's surface, a male Callicantzaros is
apt to kidnap a mortal woman to return with him to the underworld as
his bride and to bear his children who also become callicantzaroi. To
To prevent an infant of two mortal parents born during the Yuletide
season from becoming a callicantzaros, the infant was sometimes held
feet down over a fire until the toenails were singed. It was said that
the first victims of a callicantzaros whose parents were both mortal
were often his own brothers and sisters, whom he was apt to bite and
devour. The callicantzoroi are actually closer to werewolves than to
vampires--there is no direct connection with blood drinking--but they
are frequently described in nonfictional books about vampires.
(s/b Patrick Johnson) 

- Ch'ing Shih: Chinese. Ch'ing shih appear livid and may kill with
poisonous breath in addition to draining blood. If a Ch'ing Shih
encounters a pile of rice, it must count the grains before it can pass
the pile. They can be harmed and destroyed by normal weapons and by
sunlight. Their immaterial form is a glowing sphere of light, much
like a will-o'-the-wisp.





- Civateteo: Mexican. These vampire-witches held Sabbaths at
crossroads and were believed to attack young children and to mate with
human men, producing children who were also vampires. They were
believed to be linked to the god Tezcatlipoca.





- Dearg-due: Irish. The dearg-due is a standard European vampire,
except that it cannot shapeshift and may be defeated by building a
cairn of stones over its grave.





- Empusa: Ancient Greece and Rome. Empusas appear as either beautiful
women or ancient hags. They are strongly related to the incubi and
succubi (q.v).


Of course, this list is not exhaustive. Some other regional variants
on the vampire are: Austrian dracul, Amer. Indian kwakiytl, Bohemian
ogolgen, Brazilian lobishomen, African otgiruru, African owenga,
Romanian avarcolac, Babylonian sharabisu, Greek brucolacas, Tibetan
khadro, Singhalese kattakhanes, and Hindu kalika. 


source : www.vampirerave.com/db/entry.php?id=16738


             vampires.monstrous.com/universal_vampire.html
             
             www.hellhorror.com/demons/demonology/320/Dearg-Due.html