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Strigoi

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: strigoi mort, strâgoi, moroi, strigoaică
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIsiqalekiso1500 ukuya ku-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 2004.12

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1714
Dimitrie Cantemir's Descriptio Moldaviae (1714-1716) describes the belief in Moldavia and Transylvania
Imvelaphi
Romanian
IRomania, IMoldova
Oko kuyibangelayo
Isiqalekiso
Romanian folklore treats it as a fate attached to certain births and deaths rather than a single cause.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
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.
Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • 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

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Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje1714

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

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Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

The word is related to Latin strix, the screech owl that fed on human flesh12

2

Folklore distinguishes living strigoi, witches with two souls, from dead ones, which are reanimated corpses12

3

Blamed for drought, hail, dry cows and wasting deaths in its own household12

4

Graves were traditionally opened after five or seven years to check the state of the body12

5

In 2004 relatives in Marotinu de Sus exhumed Petre Toma, burned his heart and drank the ashes; six were convicted12

Imithombo

  1. Strigoi - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Ixesha elinye: 1500 ukuya ku-1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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