
Ifayile No. 030 kwa-446
Woman of Levín
Ikwabizwa ngokuba: 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
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1344
Dated to 1344 in Czech sourcesImvelaphi
Czech (Bohemian)
ICzechiaOko kuyibangelayo
Ayizange icaciswe
The source consulted gives no cause.Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
- a stake through the body (insufficient)
- burning on a fire fed with timber from a church roof
Yavela nini okokuqala?
Dated to 1344 in Czech sources
amanqaku ophando
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