Inovercy

(In-o-VER-see)

In Russian the word inovercy means "nonbeliever," as in someone who is not a practicing member of the Russian Orthodox faith. Already ostracized by the community, when this person dies, he may rise up as an undead creature, typically a vampiric REVENANT (see UNDEATH).

Source: Jackson, Compleat Vampyre; Oinas, Essays on Russian Folklore, 127­28; Senf, Vampire in Nineteenth-Century, 21