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Strzyga
Tamén chamado: strzygoń, striga
The strzyga is a Polish revenant explained by a doubled nature: a person with two souls, of whom only one dies. The surviving soul drives the corpse out of the grave to feed on blood and viscera, usually in owl form. Folklorists recorded a long list of countermeasures, most of them physical restraints applied to the body. The figure overlaps heavily with the upiór, and the two names were long used interchangeably.12
Primeiro rexistro
1863
Earliest dated source cited is Kornel Kozłowski's 1863 collection of Mazovian folkloreOrixe
Polish and Silesian
PoloniaQue o causa
Outro
A person born with two souls: at death one departs and the other reanimates the body.Como te convertes nun
Being born with two hearts, two souls and a second set of teeth; children born with teeth and sleepwalkers were suspected.
Como se move
Varía
Flies at night in the form of an owl and attacks travellers and people in the woods.Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
- beheading and burying the head separately
- burial face down with a sickle round the neck
- burning
- nails or stakes through the body
- a flint in the mouth
- church bells, which turn it to tar
- pinning the reburied body under a large rock
Cando apareceu por primeira vez?
Earliest dated source cited is Kornel Kozłowski's 1863 collection of Mazovian folklore
notas de campo
O que din as fontes
Poderías correr máis ca el?
Clase de velocidade segundo como o describen as fontes (varía), non unha medición.
Ti, camiñando uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, trotando uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Strzyga uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a toda velocidade uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)
Fontes
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