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Vampir (South Slavic)

Gape e bidiwa: вампир, vampir, vukodlak
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengLoso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang1500 go ya go 1899

The vampir of the Balkans is the original vampire, and in its folk form it is a walking corpse and not a caped aristocrat. It rises from a neighbour's grave, takes forty days to become solid and preys on its family and village until the body is staked, beheaded or burned. Austrian officials documented the belief in occupied Serbia in the 1720s and 1730s, and the word spread across Europe. It is included here as the base tradition from which the literary vampire and the plague-like walking dead both descend.12

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1725
Brought to European attention by the Austrian reports from Serbia of 1725 and 1732
Tshimologo
South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian)
Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia le Herzegovina
Se se e bakang
Loso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang
A bad life, a bad death or a flawed burial; an animal or bird passing over the corpse was a classic trigger.
O fetoga yone jang
Sorcerers, suicides, the excommunicated, the improperly buried and people born with a caul, teeth or a tail were at risk; so was any corpse an animal had stepped over.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • a stake, in Bulgaria an iron one, through the heart
  • beheading
  • burning

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologoloMotlha wa Bogare1500 go ya go 18991900 go ya go 19671968 go ya go 19992000 go ya go 20092010 go fitlha gompieno1725

Brought to European attention by the Austrian reports from Serbia of 1725 and 1732

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

South Slavic belief has it form over forty days, from a shadow to a boneless mass to a human-like body12

2

Usually male, and able to father children, the dhampirs who can detect and kill vampires12

3

It could appear as a butterfly12

4

Often posed as a normal person, roaming at night to drink blood12

5

The Plogojowitz and Paole cases gave this village belief its international name12

Metswedi

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia
  2. List of vampiric creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

Fepa letshwititi. Ga go na dipapatso, ga go na dilatedi, e duelelwa ke motho a le mongwe. Madi a tebogo a e boloka e le mo inthaneteng.Tlogela madi a tebogo

Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732Peter PlogojowitzSerbian, 1725Jure GrandoIstrian (Croatian), 1672KozlakDalmatian (Croatian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833PijavicaSlovene and Croatian

Motlha o o tshwanang: 1500 go ya go 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870ChurelSouth Asian, 1880NachzehrerGerman, 1800
Fepa letshwititiTlogela madi a tebogo