drekavac

D2R1E1K5A1V4A1C3

noun

A mythical creature in South Slavic mythology believed to be the soul of an unbaptized child and recognized by its piercing, unsettling howling.

Scrabble 18
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundrekavac (plural drekavacs)

plural drekavacs

  1. A mythical creature in South Slavic mythology believed to be the soul of an unbaptized child and recognized by its piercing, unsettling howling.

    “Okay, Gary, looks like we're dealing with a Drekavac, a demon from Slavic mythology that's the ghost of--” “...the ghost of an unbaptized child's soul that runs around begging people to baptize it. I know. I'll take the demon. You get the kids to safety.”

    2018 August 26, Mark Little, “Gary and His New Life” (6:13 from the start), in Gary and His Demons, season 1, episode 16, spoken by Tucker (Tim Gilbert)
Cite this entry
APA

drekavac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drekavac

MLA

“drekavac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drekavac. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drekavac,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drekavac.

Source: drekavac on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.