Sari-Kedi

Also known as Yellow Cat Vampire

• Mythical Number: #3867
• Culture:   European
• Attribute:   Rural
• Behaviour:   Deadly
• Common Type:   Vampires

Sar-Kdei, the Yellow Cat Vampire is a mysterious female Vampire from the gypsy stories of Europe. No one know the true origins of the Sari-Kedi but it is reminiscent of the old stories of Sirens and Mermaids that tempted men to their deaths. She looks like a 15 year old maiden with jet black hair that flows down to her waist and green cat like eyes. She appears on moonless nights where the wind howls and the owls screech, the whispering voice of the Sari-Kedi can be heard singing the ballad.

The ballad of the Yellow Cat Vampire was written by W.V. Herbert in his book By-paths in the Balkans (1906).

“ The Yellow Cat on the hilltop stood,
With her eyes of glittering grey.
She longed for a drink of purple blood,
For the noise and joys of the fray.
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

The Yellow Cat is a maiden bold,
A maiden fair and frail;
Her hair has the color of burnished gold;
'Twas pressed to her breast in the gale.
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

The Yellow Cat can purr and kiss,
And sing a wonderful tune.
The Yellow Cat can scratch and hiss
And bite and strike in the moon.
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

The young man saw the yellow-haired maid,
And heard her entrancing wail.
She purred and fawned and kissed and bade
Him come to her home in the dale.
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

She chanted devinely of earthly bliss,
And heavenly joys ere long,
With a wile and a smile and a lying kiss,
And the call and the thrall of her song.
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

They found the young man, white and stark,
As the morn dawned in gold and in rose.
What are they whispereing? What talking of?
-Hark! "'Tis he whom the she-devil chose."
And all ye good people, remember that:
Beware, if you dare, of the Yellow Cat.

"What has felled him, sturdy and good?"
"What smote him, passing fair?"
"What is become of his purple blood?"
"What blanched his nut-brown hair?"
Oh all ye good people, just think that:
His blood quenched the thirst of the Yellow Cat. ”

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    Sari-Kedi is wanted as a pet. (37 votes)

• 5 = I want Sari-Kedi as my pet!
• 4 = Awesome.
• 3 = Interesting.
• 2 = Nothing special.
• 1 = Sari-Kedi should be put in a recycling bin.