Turkic demons

thumb|The city of the infernal king Erlik-Khan, surrounded by iron walls, precedes court over the souls of the dead. In front of him, a hell-being is reading the scrolls of sins and virtues.

The Abaasy (Abaahy or Abasy, , Abaası [abaːsɯ]; Dolgan: Абааһы, Abaahı; , Abaasi; , Abasy; cognate of the Turkic word Abası; also Chebeldei) are demons in the mythology of the Sakha (also known as the Yakuts). Yakut shamanism divides the universe into upper and lower layers, with the earth being "a kind of indeterminate space or matter" in between. The abaasy occupy the lower level, referred to as the underworld or "kingdom of darkness."

demon of childbirth in certain Asian folk traditions

ancient female spirit in Caucasian folklore

thumb|302x302px|Burning the exhumed body of a person believed to be a vampire – Vampire, aut. R. de Moraine, 1864 thumb|Fight with an upiór – Maciej Sieńczyk Upiór is a demonic being from Slavic and Turkic folklore, a prototype of the vampire. It is suggested that the () belief spread across the Eurasian steppes through the migrations of the Kipchak-Cuman people, after having its origins in the regions surrounding the Volga (İtil) River and the Pontic steppes. The modern word "vampire" derives from the Old Slavic and Turkic form "" (), with the addition of the sound "v-" before a large nasal v

Mhachkay ("Turkish: Meçkey", "Tatar Language: Мәцкәй (Мәчкәй) and Mäçkäy or Мәчекәй sometimes Мәсек", "Azerbaijani Language: Məçkəy, "Russian: Mасек) is a creature in Turkic (especially Tatar) mythology which is somewhat similar to a vampire.