Adze

The Adze is from the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. It is a vampire-witch, a living vampire, or an evil spirit that possesses someone. It takes the form of a firefly, a glowing beetle, or a large mosquito. It is attracted to hunts and drains the blood from children. It also carries diseases when it feeds. Although it drinks blood it can also drink coconut milk or palm oil to survive. If angered it may go into a frenzy and drink all the palm oil and coconut milk in the area. When supplied with plenty of food it takes only what it needs, but when denied feeding it becomes bitter and takes the form of very disease rich insects. If caught in bug form, it then takes a human form and can be killed as easily as any human.

Citations:

Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2017.

Maberry, Jonathan. Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us. United States, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2006.