"Big-headed and with long thin necks, drekavac often jump out of whirlpools to attack people who are returning home from watermills." In DmC: Devil May Cry, a demon named Drekavac appears as a recurrent enemy. It is not named as such until player's final encounter with it. Rather than claws, it possesses long thin swords. In music "Drekavac" is the title of a song written and performed by the Serbian thrash metal band Horror Piknik. "Drekavac" is also the title of a Lordi song from their 2021 project Lordiversity. Similar mythical creatures Bukavac – recorded in Syrmia, a six-legged monster with gnarled horns, slimy skin and long tail, that lives in water (rivers, swamps and creeks) and comes out of it during the night. It is known that it makes loud noises, and it will try to strangle people and animals that it encounters; Jaud () – a vampirised premature baby; Myling – from Scandinavian folklore, a phantasmal incarnations of the souls of unbaptized children that had been forced to roam the earth; Nav – the soul of dead child that died before its third age; Plakavac – recorded in Herzegovina, is a newborn strangled by its mother, which will rise from its grave at night as small vampire-like creature, return to its house and scream around it, but otherwise can't do any harm; Poroniec – a hostile and malicious demon from Slavic mythology. They were believed to come into existence from stillborn fetuses, but also from improperly buried remains of children who had died during infancy. See also Bukavac Myling Poroniec Restless ghost References Slavic legendary creatures Undead Vampires Nav' Serbian folklore Bosnia and Herzegovina folklore