I would just imagine someone's mom is dead lying on the floor and he walks over her by accident and the had to bury them only for the next night having to hear his mother complain about the fact that he walked over him until he himself died.
Centuries ago in America, Vampire Burials consisted of decapitating or removing the heart from the corpse, or placing the corpse face down in the coffin to prevent it from rising from the grave. Vampire burials also had red coffins.
Me again. Native speaker of German, and able to read texts that are older than usual. I just downloaded the german book 'Donau-Bulgarien und der Balkan' by Felix Philipp Kanitz that serves as a reference in the Wikipedia article 'Vampire folklore by region' (entry number 51), and looked for any mentioning of folk tales, especially about vampires, without any results. The passage that is referred to in the Wikipedia is supposed to be page number 80, which is nothing else but a description of the panoramic view of the mountains surrounding the Nikola Pass, and the road down to Karaula, altogether with complaints about the poor geographic material which did in no way match the real places Kanitz would find there. Maybe it is one of those entries that no one can check because they are referring to texts which are hard to find, and written in languages other than english, so that only a coincidence like this one might reveal that someone had tampered with the text, inserting - Fake News There is actually a myth among the Ewe of West Africa that malicious entities can transform into a flying animal and suck the blood of children; but these take on the shape of _fire_flies, not _butter_flies. I guess this is the original inspiration of this more than dubious tale.
@@zaireeto That is the issue... I downloaded a scan from the ETH (Switzerland), where there is not a single word like butterfly or vampire/pyre to be found in the document. I tried to search for the term 'red' and found 135 entries, and not a single one was referring to any folktale. Can you give me the page number where this is supposed to be found?
@@zaireeto I use the two volumes of the second edition which were published by the Verlagsbuchhandlung von Hermann Fries, 1879 (printed in Leipzig) Page 63 of the first volume: 'Within the last passages I will speak in a more detailed way about how the turkish government knew to take advantage of the ethnographic element for their political aims, and how until the very end they were very effective in their methods to split up the Bulgarian masses which became ever more aware of their nationality, by using the Albanian, Tatarian, and Tcherkessian elements as wedges. A layering of those with Romanians would be even more welcome for the Sublime Porte (ie the Turkish government in Instanbul), as contrary to modern claims I have proven, the Romanic nationality in the light of their tenacious isolation, hasn't assimilated with any other, but rather in recent times kept the ability to absorb alien and especially slavic elements with ease. In recent years catholic missionaries even tried to separate the Romans which are already wedged in between Serbs and Bulgars as an alien nation, especially from the latter by trying to merge them with Rome (ie the catholic church). These steps, accompanied by a lot of promises, initially seemed to be successful; but the undiplomatic behaviour of the missionaries and Russian intervention brought the movement to a stall. ' Page 63 of the second volume: 'Sumla's pretty district office is a monument of Midhat's Vali epoch. When I came to a visit, the Kaimakam was about to hand over the place to a minion of the new governor for exploitation. So he had little time for me. His friendly Defterdar told me that the Kasa of Sumla consists of parts of three historic regions: the Nahie Alcak with its capital Sumla and 43 villages, the Nahie Gerlovo with 13, and the Deli Orman with 48 locations. Looking at my map incidentally showed me how little this organisation matched the needs of the population; just think of the issue that four places south of the Balkan, namely Krdzalar, Kamcik Mahle, Rupca, and Murad Deresi were governed from the far away Sumla on the other side of the mountain range! Such absurdities in the partition of the Danube province are explained by the ingnorance that the Sublime Porte presented to any obligatory administrative means in the European states, even more so as it was in no possession of any map that would openly display this heavy disgrace burdened on the shoulders of their subjects. Only because this pompous empire was run by such uneducated men, it had become my task to produce at least for this part a governmental map, which should for long have been in existence for the whole empire!' It is fun to translate this odd kind of German, yet it doesn't come even close to your version. Maybe I need another edition (shrugs)
Okay but now I need a book to be written about the vampire that cleans your house and....."entertains" you, with all the czech folklore vibes, ideally set in a small godforgotten village. Amazing video ! I love that someone is bringing more attention to slavic folklore and legend. Thank you.
Fantastic pacing, visuals, and you listed your sources - literally couldn’t ask for anything better! Thanks for this insight, it has been a very elusive subject for me to find info on!
I remember being obsessed with vampires. It was one of the reasons why i liked history so much and eventually studied it. The document regarding the Vampires of Medvedia in Serbia from around 1731 (by Glaser and then Flückinger), only a couple of generations before Marie Terese's reign, was already sceptical about vampires, but lastly ruled them as existent. That might have been the only time in my life were it was an advantage to speak German instead of French while reading old documents. Really liked the video, the animations, the whole style of the video. I personally don't like how fast you talk as if you have to end the video as fast as possible. Your videos deserve to be a bit longer and your voice is great and wholesome. Even your accent helps with the experience. That said, great video!
It was often said particularly in the Eastern Europe which was mostly Orthodox Christians that if you were guilty of heresy which records could include witchcraft, you would turn into a vampire.
Yuup, as I said therr is a LOT of ways in turning into a vampire haha, in some eastern countries apparently even if you were a redhead you had a high chance of turning into one
These were interesting variations of vampire folklore! Love the vid! Would like to see if you find any other folktale variations of other creatures example:werewolves, etc.
Coming back from a Halloween evening with my friends and finding this video is aweeesomee! I really enjoyed watching it and it do was interesting, keep up with the work :)
7:02 maybe this has to do with experiences of hallucinations during sleep paralysis, where moving even just one muscle in your body can interrupt the condition
The story of vampires turning into butterflies can also be found in a short story written by Milovan Glišić inspired by local legends, the story was written in 1880 named After Ninety Years. In which a vampire terrorizes a village, at the end the villagers find the vampire's grave and stab it with a stake, after which a butterfly (a moth in some versions) flies out of the coffin. This story was made into a movie Vampirica in 1979.
@@zaireeto the Chinese believe that you have three Souls, come one goes to Western heaven, if you you know haven't been too bad, Wednesdays in the grave that's the one you talked to when you come and visit and offer a stock prices to, and then one is what is called your animal soul,, if your body is not cremated it may reactivate your corpse common cause problems
Hi there, Greetings from Serbia. I have a question regarding your folklore knowledge about Slavic vampires. Do you have a term, word for half-vampire child in your language? I ask this because South/Balkan Slavs have a planty of words for half-vampire: ZDUHAĆ, GLOG, VJEDOGONJA,...
Hello! Greetings to Serbia (: That is really interesting, I don't think we have a word actually! (Or at least I am jor aware of it) From the sources I read either a half vampire baby couldn't live (it was born without bones) Or they are just mentioned as "kids/children" And I am trying to think of an equivalent to the serbian words but can't think of any o: (If anybody knows please feel free to correct me)
@@zaireeto there are also a more common words: VAMPIROVIĆ, VAMPIRČE, VAMPIRDŽIJA,...all can be translated as Child of a vampire. Balkan half-vampires are described with bigger head, nose and eyes. Usually they have same or similar power as their vampire father (its usually a father who is a vampire) and they often end up as vampire/monster hunters (its not the Hollywood and Van Helsing who came first with this stuff, but Balkan/South Slavs).
@@lenarosic ohh okok that's really cool!! You could say upírek ? But that's definitely more of a "small vampire" than a child of one. And for the next question - i don't think we have! not at least in folklore i think. Usually it would just be a monster of some kind
