godsipclub , 1 month ago to mythology group

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)

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susanneleist , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

Dance with me until the moon hides its face,
And the sun attempts to quicken the pace.
From the sunlight, the vampire turns his face,
And dancers twirl to the light’s frenzied pace.

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susanneleist , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

UNMASKED

Show your face.

Let the domino fall.

Let it shatter to pieces.

I want to see the man

Beneath the disguise.

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