Strigoi

Rinonziwo: strigoi mort, strâgoi, moroi, strigoaică

Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaChituko1500 kusvika 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

Ita hondo

Kutanga kunyorwa

1714

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

Kwakabva

Romanian

Romania, Moldova

Chikonzero chacho

Chituko

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

Kuti munhu anova zombie sei

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.

Njere

Rakangwara

Utera

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

Rakatanga kuoneka riini?

Nyika yekare Nguva dzepakati 1500 kusvika 1899 1900 kusvika 1967 1968 kusvika 1999 2000 kusvika 2009 2010 kusvika nhasi

1714

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

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Zvinyorwa

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Nguva imwe chete: 1500 kusvika 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