[Byron is again indebted to S. Henley (see _Vathek_, 1893, p. 236). According to Pococke (_Porta Mosis_, 1654, Notæ Miscellaneæ, p. 241), the angels Moncar and Nacir are black, ghastly, and of fearsome aspect. Their function is to hold inquisition on the corpse. If his replies are orthodox (_de Mohammede_), he is bidden to sleep sweetly and soundly in his tomb, but if his views are lax and unsound, he is cudgelled between the ears with iron rods. Loud are his groans, and audible to the whole wide world, save to those deaf animals, men and genii. Finally, the earth is enjoined to press him tight and keep him close till the crack of doom.] [108] Eblis, the Oriental Prince of Darkness. [109] The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant. Honest Tournefort [_Relation d'un Voyage du Levant_, par Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, 1717, i. 131] tells a long story, which Mr. Southey, in the notes on _Thalaba_ [book viii., notes, ed. 1838, iv. 297-300], quotes about these "Vroucolochas" ["Vroucolocasses"], as he calls them. The Romaic term is "Vardoulacha." I recollect a whole family being terrified by the scream of a child, which they imagined must proceed from such a visitation. The Greeks never mention the word without horror. I find that "Broucolokas" is an old legitimate Hellenic appellation--at least is so applied to Arsenius, who, according to the Greeks, was after his death animated by the Devil. The moderns, however, use the word I mention. [Βουρκόλακας [Bourko/lakas] or Βρυκόλακας [Bryko/lakas] (= the Bohemian and Slovak _Vrholak_) is modern Greek for a ghost or vampire. George Bentotes, in his Λεξικον Τρίγλωσσον [Lexikon Tri/glôsson], published in Vienna in 1790 (see _Childe Harold_, Canto II. Notes, Papers, etc., No. III., _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 197), renders Βρουκόλακας [Brouko/lakas] "lutin," and Βρουκολιασμένος [Broukoliasme/nos], "devenu un spectre."