(2) Those who meet with any sudden or violent death (including suicides), or, in Maina[990], where the vendetta is still in vogue, those who having been murdered remain unavenged.
(3) Children conceived or born on one of the great Church-festivals[991], and children stillborn[992].
(4) Those who die under a curse, especially the curse of a parent, or one self-invoked, as in the case of a man who, in perjuring himself, calls down on his own head all manner of damnation if what he says be false.
(5) Those who die under the ban of the Church, that is to say, excommunicate.
(6) Those who die unbaptised or apostate[993].
(7) Men of evil and immoral life in general, more particularly if they have dealt in the blacker kinds of sorcery.
(8) Those who have eaten the flesh of a sheep which was killed by a wolf[994].
(9) Those over whose dead bodies a cat or other animal has passed[995].
The provenance and the significance of these various beliefs concerning the causes of vampirism will be discussed in the next section.