Strigoi

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: strigoi mort, strâgoi, moroi, strigoaică

Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatAb mbugal1500 ba 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

Xeexal ko

Jëkk a bindu

1714

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

Cosaan

Romanian

Rumani, Moldawi

Lan moo ko waral

Ab mbugal

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

Naka ngay doone benn

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.

Xel

Am xel

Fi mu néewe doole

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

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàgg Diggu jamono 1500 ba 1899 1900 ba 1967 1968 ba 1999 2000 ba 2009 2010 ba tey

1714

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

notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

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

Sours yi

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Benn jamono: 1500 ba 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