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Woman of Levín

Gape e bidiwa: 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

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1344
Dated to 1344 in Czech sources
Tshimologo
Czech (Bohemian)
Czechia
Se se e bakang
Ga go a tlhalosiwa le ka motlha
The source consulted gives no cause.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • a stake through the body (insufficient)
  • burning on a fire fed with timber from a church roof
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

From Levín in Bohemia1

2

When staked, the corpse bled1

3

She was said to have eaten her own clothing in the grave1

4

An ordinary pyre would not catch until church roof timbers were added1

5

Recorded less than a decade after Myslata of Blov1

Metswedi

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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