Strigoi

Maqaa biraa: strigoi mort, strâgoi, moroi, strigoaică

Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eAbaarsa1500 hanga 1899

The dead strigoi is the Romanian walking corpse, a body that leaves the grave to drain the strength of its relatives and their animals. It is the folk belief behind much of the modern vampire, but in village practice it is a family matter settled by opening the grave and pinning, beheading or burning the body. In western Romania the same being is often called moroi. The rite is not purely historical: a prosecution for exhuming and burning a supposed strigoi took place in Dolj County in 2004.1 2

Lolsiisi

Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame

1714

Dimitrie Cantemir's Descriptio Moldaviae (1714-1716) describes the belief in Moldavia and Transylvania

Ka'umsa

Romanian

Roomaaniyaa, Moldoovaa

Maaltu isa fida

Abaarsa

Romanian folklore treats it as a fate attached to certain births and deaths rather than a single cause.

Akkamitti isa taata

Risk factors include being a seventh child of the same sex, a sinful life, dying unmarried, suicide, execution for perjury or a witch's curse.

Beekumsa

Qaroo

Bakkeewwan laafoo

a stake of oak, yew or ash, or a nail or knife, through the heart
beheading and reburial face down
burning the heart or body, sometimes with the ashes drunk in water
garlic
incense

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa durii Jaarraa Gidduugaleessaa 1500 hanga 1899 1900 hanga 1967 1968 hanga 1999 2000 hanga 2009 2010 hanga har'aa

1714

Dimitrie Cantemir's Descriptio Moldaviae (1714-1716) describes the belief in Moldavia and Transylvania

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

The word is related to Latin strix, the screech owl that fed on human flesh1 2

Folklore distinguishes living strigoi, witches with two souls, from dead ones, which are reanimated corpses1 2

Blamed for drought, hail, dry cows and wasting deaths in its own household1 2

Graves were traditionally opened after five or seven years to check the state of the body1 2

In 2004 relatives in Marotinu de Sus exhumed Petre Toma, burned his heart and drank the ashes; six were convicted1 2

Maddoota

Dhugaan fuula kana irra jiru hundi maddoota kana irraa dhufe, jechoota keenyaan barreeffame. Dogoggora argitee? [email protected] irratti nutti himi.

Tuuta nyaachisi. Beeksisa hin jiru, hordoftuun hin jiru, nama tokkoon kaffalama. Gumaachi toora irra akka turu godha.Gumaacha kenni

Bara wal fakkaataa: 1500 hanga 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

ChurelSouth Asian, 1880