
Dosiye No. 030 kuri 446
Woman of Levín
Yitwa kandi: witch of Levín
The woman of Levín is a Bohemian revenant of 1344 who trampled her victims. Her case combines several motifs that later define the German Nachzehrer and the Slavic vampire: the bleeding corpse, the eaten shroud and the body that resists destruction. Fire took hold only when consecrated wood was used. With Myslata of Blov she shows that the full exhume-stake-burn procedure was in use in central Europe by the mid-14th century.1
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1344
Dated to 1344 in Czech sourcesInkomoko
Czech (Bohemian)
CekiyaIcyayiteye
Ntibyigeze bisobanurwa
The source consulted gives no cause.Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
- a stake through the body (insufficient)
- burning on a fire fed with timber from a church roof
Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?
Dated to 1344 in Czech sources
inyandiko zo ku kibuga
Ibyo amasoko avuga
Amasoko
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