godsipclub , 1 month ago

In 2023, in #Poland, yet another grave was discovered¹ with several common anti-vampire tracts:

• The body was placed downward
• A sickle was placed on the body's neck
• A lock was placed on its feet

In that case, if the buried one was a #vampire, or tried to come back among the living, those gimmicks hopefully would have stopped it.

It wasn't uncommon, in Eastern Europe, to have legends and beliefs about vampires. In #Slavic mythology:

• The strzyga, not to be confused with the worshippers of Morana or Striga (Stribog's² female counterpart), was believed some kind of vampire or demon
• Strigoi³ were vampiric spirits and witches
• A kresnik⁴ (not the homonymous god) was a shamanic worker who was said to hunt vampires and protect villages form malicious spirits
• It was common to put some "extra precautions" in some tombs, as copper coins in the mouth of the deceased as expedient against evil

¹ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/anti-vampire-graves-poland
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stribog
³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigoi
⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krsnik_(vampire_hunter)

@mythology #mythology