Santorini and the vrykolakas — why we used to bury the 'bad dead' on the small islands

OK so my yiayia was from Pyrgos on Santorini and she told this straight-faced, not as a ghost story. On the island the undead are called vrykolakas, and it's NOT the romantic Dracula thing. A vrykolakas is somebody who died wrong — violent death, excommunicated, unbaptized, or just a nasty person wh……