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One of the earliest mentions of a historical strigoi is the story of Jure Grando Alilović (1579–1656) from the region of Istria. The villager is believed to have been the first real person described as a vampire because he was referred to as a strigoi, štrigon or štrigun in contemporary local records. [7]
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The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and the learned culture, determined by two factors.
First edition (publ. Cultura Națională) Miss Christina (Romanian: Domnișoara Christina) is a 1936 novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade.It tells the story of the attraction between a female strigoi—an undead human from Romanian folklore—and a young man who visits the house she haunts.
They are also sometimes referred to in modern stories as the living offspring of two strigoi. It may also signify an infant who died before being baptized. The origins of the term "moroi" are unclear, but it is thought by the Romanian Academy [2] [3] to have possibly originated from the Old Slavonic word mora ("nightmare") – cf. Russian kikimora.
Pricolici, similar to strigoi, are undead souls that have risen from the grave to harm living people. While a strigoi possesses anthropomorphic qualities similar to the ones it had before death, a pricolici always resembles a wolf or dog. Malicious, violent men are often said to become pricolici after death, in order to continue harming other ...
Its story takes place during the 1880s in Congress Poland and follows the everyday life of the peasantry in a typical Polish village. In the tenth chapter of book two, some of the characters gather together to exchange stories and legends, in one of which the striga is described as having a bat's wings ( strzygi z nietoperzowymi skrzydłami ...
Romania. Iele, feminine mythical creatures; Moroi, a type of vampire or ghost; Muma Pădurii, an ugly and mean old woman living in the forest; Pricolici, similar to Strigoi, but for worse souls; Samca, an evil spirit, said to curse children and pregnant women with illness