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@Auswurkung

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that you mention suffocation as the way that most "vampires" kill their victims: In Alby Stone's: Hellhounds Werewolves and the Germanic Underworld, he mentions that the "Arg" part, of the word Warg (meaning wolf) denotes Strangulation or sometimes "one who is strangled", possibly referring to the manner in which perpetrators would kill or be killed (via hanging) - in addition, being declared a "Werewolf" was what is called a "Magico-Legal" term, and violent criminals (possibly one's who had asphyxiated their victims?) were officially declared Werewolves ("thou art become a wolf!") and banished outside the towns or city's walls and into the wilderness, and is most likely where we derive the term Wolfshead, as in a bandit or brigand.

@IcoOst

2 жыл бұрын

@@Auswurkung warg is probably the noise you make while getting strangled

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

Thumbnail artist?

@IcoOst

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamchamberlain2263 is in der description

@christophernaple4260

2 жыл бұрын

Lol good one! :)

Can't stress enough how much I appreciate sources being included. History youtube needs more of it

@One.DeSanctis.

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100% with this statement. There are some Channels on YT where sources are consistently given. Stephan Milo comes to mind. I've questioned statements given as facts on YT History channels before and asked for some sources - book or historical figure names - to be recommended. I've gotten point by point arguments in return instead of sources. Come on. I want to do the research and see what conclusion I draw.

@traininglime5559

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really good to know before I start the video to gage the reliability of the story to not just be the narrator’s opinion.

@jeremyknifley

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! History is excellent! Even if it must keep being rewritten on many different levels. Its like an on going mystery finding out what really happened about everything.

@williammyers1088

2 жыл бұрын

Okay silly billy

@jackssmirkingrevenge9365

2 жыл бұрын

historical sources are largely fairy tales themselves, moreso the further back one goes

Ancient Scottish Highlanders believed in a vampire like fairy called the Baobhan Sith (sith pronounced as she, it means fairy). They shared similarities with the Succubus, and appeared as young beautiful women with Dark hair and wearing a robes which revealed hooved feet at the bottom. One story, there were four men who went hunting and took shelter for the night in a hut. One of the men sang while the others began dancing. The men expressed a desire for partners to dance with, and soon after that four women entered the hut. Three of them danced while the fourth sat beside the vocalist. He then noticed drops of blood falling from his companions and fled from the hut, taking refuge among the horses. His partner chased him but was unable to catch him, and when daylight came she disappeared. The man went back inside and found all three of his friends dead and drained of blood. Its suggested by folklorists that the baobhan sith was unable to catch the fourth man among the horses because of the iron with which the horses were shod, iron being a fairy weakness. The trend in these stories is that the baobhan sith appears when lone men express desires for a romantic partner and drains them of their blood or prys their chests open. This connects with the traditional Scottish belief that if someone makes a wish at night without invoking God's protection, then the wish would be granted in a terrible manner

@pharaohsmagician8329

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much that's such a cool comment. Can you share some more and tell me what to search up?

@scccchh

Жыл бұрын

Like banshees?

@redwoodrebelgirl3010

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank you!❤ I can understand, both the form the vampire takes for the Scottish, & why wishing at night, sans God's involvement & protection would come to disappointing ends. I know that I am going to be much more careful in my wishing & more prayerful, too. 💗 Thank you!!!❤

@bumblebee4280

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I'm Kenyan and when I was little my cousin would tell me folk stories. She told me a story about a man who was telling a stranger about how he met someone with cow hooves for legs, then the stranger asked him, hooves like these that I've got? I'm not sure how the story starts or ends, but I remember the hoof part. And now I just learnt Scottish people have a folklore about hoofed people. Maybe they did exist.

@angelina6543

Жыл бұрын

It must have connection to Balkans through first people of the British Isles

i expect your next video to be a 2-hour "vampires /after/ dracula" that is a deep dive into the history of twilight fanfics.

@Ujuani68

2 жыл бұрын

Please not.

@user-ge8yn4ql4i

2 жыл бұрын

A Twilight vs Vampire Chronicles battle would be nice as well :)

@weyjosh5213

Жыл бұрын

😂😂💀💀

@waynegates7180

Жыл бұрын

THEIR WANKERS 😆LOL

@UndergrundensBrolere

Жыл бұрын

True blood and Buffy aswell

Imagine walking past a graveyard at night and hearing; "I am the Count and I love to count! One grain of sand! Ah, ah aaah!"

@hanzquejano7112

Жыл бұрын

What if that's what inspired him?

The vampires sitting on the chest of the victim and constricting their breath is still a thing in Thai folklore. They believe that ghosts sit on people's chest when they are asleep. The situations in which people think this happened generally sound very similar to sleep paralysis.

@carmenhunter4380

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes SP is absolutely terrifying and not something that is just scientific in my experience.

@Bambisgf77

Жыл бұрын

@@carmenhunter4380 … or mine.. Thank God I have not had an episode in many years but in times of intense stress in my life is when these horrid episodes would occur. One night my best friend of 20 years ( 14 yrs at the time) was staying over with me due to a crisis. That night I had one of the worst I ever experienced. In mine I was always trying to move at least one finger to break the paralyzation while feeling this oppressive malevolent presence just out of my sight. What made this one of the worst is that moving one finger did not break it… I was able to move my finger & pull the sheet off my friend. She was an incredibly light sleeper and woke up. She called my name & when I did not answer she rolled over. My eyes were wide open and the look in them literally made her sick to her stomach! She burst into tears and grabbed my shoulders that was enough to break it. All these years later both of us remember it very vividly.

@bunnywifalaptop3684

Жыл бұрын

There is a Swedish beast that is very similar, we call it a "Mara", which probably stems from either nightmare or "Mardröm" which is the Swedish word for nightmare. They are said to sit on your chest and give you nightmares, the way to stop them from doing so is by turning your shoes. The Mara have to step into your shoes, so making them unable to do that protects you

@ManTCore

Жыл бұрын

SP is first step in astral trip. Thats why people see stuff at this point because you see with your astral body and your physical is immobilized to not interupt the trip.

@sym9266

9 ай бұрын

I've had it happen to me a hundred times, and it still does sometimes. Keep your eyes closed and don't move, no matter what you hear or feel.

I rarely comment on videos. But guys please don't stop this series, I think that a lot of us love it

@JohnGalt916

2 жыл бұрын

You should comment more. Even if it's just to say "this is a comment ". The engagement helps the creator in the algorithm.

@kevisdeadagain

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnGalt916 6))6 ight us i 6 cuz 86,

@HristovVojnikUOtadzbini

2 жыл бұрын

Buga buga

@Gaybraham.Lincoln

Жыл бұрын

Wow how honoured we must be

@KLR_BAN

Жыл бұрын

Lol then try commenting more from now on, comments and likes fuel the creators, it let's them know they have an audience to cater to. Helps the continuation of all videos you enjoy. 🤦‍♂️The amount of people that don't participate in clicking Like or pressing subscribe is absurd.

In America, historically vampire folklore is closely associated with TB outbreaks in small rural towns. They've found the evidence when accidently stumbling on unmarked graveyards during new construction & found unusual burials. There is still a belief in energy vampires talked about by those in the New Age/Occult/Esoteric crowd currently.

@AverageAmerican

2 жыл бұрын

world rulers are vampires

@jacobmartinelli7496

2 жыл бұрын

maybe the virus dried them out and slowed decomposition

@AverageAmerican

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobmartinelli7496 _"maybe the virus dried them out"_ What an interesting theory... /ponder

@zlatkoigric5084

2 жыл бұрын

Nah,maaaan... They r fukking reptilez.

@AverageAmerican

2 жыл бұрын

@@zlatkoigric5084 Are bats even related to lizards?

The term "hajduk" (the J is pronounced as the Y in "young") doesn't refer to a soldier exactly, I'd translate it as "bandit" in most cases. They were anti-ottoman insurectionists, living in the forests and robbing the turks whenever possible. Many became soldiers during the serbian revolution, but at that point they are no longer refered to by that name. The serbian word for soldier is "vojnik", and army is "vojska". Source: being a serb

@SonOfTheDawn515

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like good people either way.

@claudiubabusca4810

Жыл бұрын

In romanian we would say haiduc and voinic with the same meanings

The counting aspect of vampires is interesting. The overwhelming need to count spilled sugar or seeds or something similar is a part of faerie folklore as well. Also, Crofty should get a raise for all his terrible jokes. They're brilliant and I love them.

@AverageAmerican

2 жыл бұрын

Counting? No, the Count is from Cain's lineage. All vampires are bluebloods. It's more of a royal thing!

@taylorslade961

2 жыл бұрын

@@AverageAmerican Vampires are lame

@alesiahaynes9711

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of reminds me of the dream catcher thing with the counting .

@JPOGame

Жыл бұрын

@@AverageAmerican omg!!!!!

@AverageAmerican

Жыл бұрын

@@JPOGame mhmm

I remember that episode of The X-Files when Mulder intentionally threw his sunflower seeds on the floor to force the vampire to pick them all up because of an obsessive compulsion.

@normairizarryni

2 жыл бұрын

There is a legend that vampires are obsessed with numbers. Think of the count from sesame street. People believed that if you spill poppy seeds on the grave of a suspected vampire, it will spend all night counting them one by one.

@juliantreidiii

2 жыл бұрын

That is the fay as well in traditional stories.

@juliantreidiii

2 жыл бұрын

@@normairizarryni That is the fay in traditional stories.

@80Elminster

2 жыл бұрын

he's not actually a vampire in that episode though. He had false teeth!

@LTPottenger

2 жыл бұрын

Banking and vampirism have a lot in common

1:49:48 For anyone interested in learning the Vampire on the Thumbnail , its south east asian specifically Filipino , the Manananggal , which is a tagalog word that means "One who seperates" , root word is "Tangal" becuz the Manananggal detaches its upper body from its lower body , though i never knew that our Vampire was similar to our neighbors and comes from the Malay Word , since "MANANANGGAL" is a Philippine Word.

@hanzquejano7112

Жыл бұрын

Exactly the reason I clicked

@hanzquejano7112

Жыл бұрын

Tanggal, is he the main protagonist from "Batang Quiapo"?

@CraigGoldsberry-vx7re

5 ай бұрын

Wak Wak is real.....I have video of one

@waitingonamonabel

6 күн бұрын

​@@hanzquejano7112mali, tanggal yung mangyayari sa tatay niya sa trabaho pag nadiskubre yung affair

@hanzquejano7112

6 күн бұрын

@@waitingonamonabel Lol. Good one!

I found myself wishing The Histocrat would randomly update the channel and bless us with a video… and it happened. Oh yes.

@landonbolts7650

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes

@Embassy_of_Jupiter

2 жыл бұрын

Do it again

@quixoticpuma

2 жыл бұрын

@@Embassy_of_Jupiter oh yes.

I'm Brazilian and the Yara/Iara myth is pretty popular. There are many regional variations but it is the first time I hear that a Yara drinks blood. However, I'll say that Monteiro Lobato's top-rated children's book series, where characters interact with many folklore creatures, helped homogenize them and sanitize them from the more gruesome details. Modern folklore has Yara either as a single entity or as a species equivalent to the greek siren or generic European mermaid. They are half woman, half aquatic beast. They attract people by their singing and will drown them in the river. "Yara" is from the indigenous people and their language it literally means "water maiden". Yara can be used as a given name for a woman. Most Brazilians would not hold any vampiric associations with the myth of the Yara. Given the definition at the beginning, I can think of a few creatures from Brazilian folklore that would fit the bill a lot better than the Yara.

@Sheikplays

Жыл бұрын

Quais criaturas encaixariam melhor?

@alexandredesouza3692

11 ай бұрын

Which Brazilian creatures do you think are more similar to vampires, then?

They say if you laugh at a Jang Chi (hopping vampire) --- which you would naturally do coz it's such a funny sight -- the Jang Chi will be embarrassed and hop away.

Well done, so good job guys. Slavic tradition was very precise. Here are few other things that my Granny told me (she was from eastern past of Bosnia, born 1935): Vampir was there sometimes also named "Utvara". In one story she told me about some guy who died and got to vampire "povampirio se". He then comes after midnight out of his grave back to his house, uses the smallest hole to get inside and after getting in, he first opens everything that can be opened (doors, boxes, etc.). After that he lays down to his wife and stays until the first rooster crows. This ritual continues every night until exhumation and "glogov koljac" hawthorn stick in his hearth. In general the border between Vampir, Nachmar (in Serbian "Mora") and Ghost (in Serb. "Utvara, Prividjenje, Privida") was not that precise.

@karolinakolaska7014

2 жыл бұрын

Just like slavic terminology is between life and death just like vapires

@Za7a7aZ

Жыл бұрын

The wife would wait in bed for his return at midnight with lust...some with curiosity and many fear...some would probably make sure to be somewhere far away from the house altogether..lol

@rkoll33

Жыл бұрын

@@Za7a7aZ in Serbia there is even a name for children born from relationship with a vampire. They call it "vampirovic" and they don't have any shadow, have less or no bones and very big head. They can not look up and they are able to find, see and kill the vampire.

@ridleyroid9060

Жыл бұрын

We use Utvara as well in regular speech, to kinda mean a 'creature' of evil origin or with evil intent. Prividjenje/Privid is more "imagination" or "imaginary" or "mirage". We use the word "duh" specifically for a ghost, I'm Serbian.

@fikrett476

Жыл бұрын

Thats really interesting. Do you know where exactly shes from in eastern bosnia?

May this find you in bloody good health.

@willem9450

2 жыл бұрын

It did ty.

@jakenord9061

2 жыл бұрын

Well played

@onefeather2

2 жыл бұрын

What a hoot it made me laugh, and that is good.

So Sesame Street has one of the most accurate portrayals of a vampire. Sweet.

@chrischrzanowski7617

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! 👍

@PrincessFidelma

Жыл бұрын

It is weird that I always felt safe watching CVC??? 🤔

@AverageAmerican

Жыл бұрын

SS was made by vampires...

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

yes he frubdky vamoièt

@stephenwest6738

Жыл бұрын

Even more accurate to Chinese vampires

A "what we do in the shadows" reference. Werewolves not swear wolves.

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

giud idear

Crofty's voice puts me asleep in the best way. I fall asleep and then have to rewatch the video the next morning (although at this point I've listened to the podcast 20 times. )

@elizabethmender

Жыл бұрын

You and me both! These are great at bedtime and to listen to in the car.❤

love this, literally been trying to look into origins on vampire and werewolf myths and didnt find much because of how influential bram stoker was

@zokileesvenson5835

4 ай бұрын

Origin of vampire u can find in Serbia.First case I think Sava Savanovic.And vampire comes from Serbian word vampir.

@zarinaromanets7290

2 ай бұрын

Monstrum show on KZread has some good origin research.

@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal

Ай бұрын

Just started the video, but I love how so much of the stories is more like “dead guy came back, started tipping my cows.” However, there is one fantastic and weird folktale that I remember from my Balkan folklore college course. I don’t remember the name but it’s pretty much about a guy who sees a vampire along the road and they pretty much become friends and the guy helps him get a wife by curing a princess of vampirism in a pretty insane way that I’d rather not spoil. Wish I remembered the title but there are some awesome and diverse stories and ideas behind vampire folklore!

"Mandurugo" does not literally translate as "blood sucker" "Man" - To (It actually is a multi-utility word, attaching it to an action would imply occupation. But in this context, this would be a closer equivalent) "Durugo" - Bleeding A more literal translation in my understanding would be: "To make bleed" or "A person who makes other people bleed". "Mandurugo" is also a term used for insane people who are basically slashers/murderers running amok.

@charlesco7413

2 жыл бұрын

Could it refer to a bloodletting or a bloodsheder?

@jessicawardley4879

2 жыл бұрын

👑

@notinspectorgadget

2 жыл бұрын

Neat

@heneraldodzz4978

Жыл бұрын

Aswang

@cjeromet1971

Жыл бұрын

@@heneraldodzz4978 Manananggal.

To be fair, Dracula didn't consider moving far from his resting place until he'd already been undead for centuries and had basically "tapped out" the food supply in and around his castle in Wallachia. Thinking like a predator, he needed to migrate to seek better hunting grounds.

@DrewLSsix

2 жыл бұрын

Not really, in the novel Dracula was always an intelligent man, he made plans for his migration the England, even taking legal precautions for his travels. That's not a mindless predator. It's also said exactly why he moves and it's not because he's out of people to eat, theres a village near his castle and has been for centuries. He leaves thralls there who have no issue surviving and decides to flee back there when England proves inhospitable. It's said in the book he comes to England specifically to ba a part of modern high society. He left out of boredom not hunger, though he's noted as not being particularly bright as he can't seem to wrap his head around "civilized" society. This lack of intelligence is a major part of why he fails but he is clearly of human intelligence and not an animal.

@Ape_Mode

Жыл бұрын

@@DrewLSsix that is some of the dumbest stuff I've read in KZread comments. Get wretk

@brandenapexo604

Жыл бұрын

@@DrewLSsix well the concept of a mindless predator is an invalid phrase, predator are usually far more intelligent then their prey

@filthycasual8187

Жыл бұрын

@@DrewLSsix You know, as a massive fan of the story, I still could never wrap my head around the Count's motives for leaving, as they were left so ambiguous. I think you're probably right: the simple solution is that he was bored. And he likely was, but I also believe that (as evidenced by his old man appearance at the beginning, and the reactions people had when Harker told them where he was going), Dracula's food supply was diminished due to people catching on to what he was and taking precautions against it. Hell, a desperate mother knows exactly WHAT took her baby and chases Dracula back to his castle to beg him to give it back to her... only to be fed to the wolf pack Dracula "domesticated."

I thought it was generally accepted that the word "vampire" in English was just loaned and Anglicized directly from the Serbo-Croatian "vampir". Also, its likely that it was our version that inspired Dracula, as Serbian vampires, while monsterous, are still... Human? Not really, but they can talk, they remember their life and they can even procreate with humans, making a dhampir (which is what Alucard would technically be considered). Though they have mouths full of sharp teeth and they actually tear their victims throats out while they are feeding on them. They also turn into moths. And, if i remember correctly, they also sometimes feed on livestock, chupacabra style.

@LTPottenger

2 жыл бұрын

It's not very accepted

@g76agi

Жыл бұрын

@@LTPottenger Ive only ever heard people supporting these, never against it though

@ducksparrowmybel8night430

Жыл бұрын

I thought they turned into bats or monster bat things.. in serbian version they transform to moths? Moths arent even bloodsuckers.

@voxlknight2155

Жыл бұрын

@@ducksparrowmybel8night430 neither are bats. There are no blood sucking bat species in Serbia, or in Europe, for that matter. Those are only found in the Americas. I like the moth version because its a just a tiny bit more terrifying, because many people are scared of bats. You'd expect the bats to be scary monsters, not so much moths. Its specifically because moths aren't usually scary that makes vampires turning into them so terrifying.

@letsgetreal6402

Жыл бұрын

@@voxlknight2155 there ARE blood sucking moths there though. Also in a lot of other places

I was born in Bulgaria but raised in the USA but I’m so glad you bring up Bulgarian folk lore or superstitions. I love the video. And would like to hear/watch more on different topics. Maybe Witches would be a great one next

@r-ex2945

Жыл бұрын

@Alexander Nikolov check the people from the Caucasian mountains.

@AverageAmerican

Жыл бұрын

@@r-ex2945 Yes, real geography, the Caucuses mountains. That's bcuz vampires are no myth! A Count is always a vampire bcuz blue bloods rule the world! Not a folklore. Ain't no superstition to it... They're Japhetites, and seeds of the serpent in the garden.

@yogurtandbananas4552

Жыл бұрын

That compulsion was also seen in the movie Leprechaun..when one character threw shoes to the Leprechaun and he started picking them and polishing them...sorry just remember this movie I think from in the early 90's.

Regarding the return to the coffin, again I bring up the Austrian Vampire Panic spurred by Serbian peasant superstitions which brought the vampire to the west. The vampires reported in western newspapers were said by locals to return to their graves during the day and the village folk would return to the cemetery to stake the corpse. This was before Stoker & modern vampire literature, in fact prior to this the word vampire did not even exist in the English lexicon though these widely circulated news stories were almost certainly part of getting Stoker interested in Balkan Vampires

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

we eed vampi picnic mov lie yiugi bear

As I was listening halfway through, I wondered if they covered the aswang and mananangal because SEA folklore isnt as famous as other cultures. And when they covered it I was amazed by their research. And they even knew more than me and come from the region itself. Amazing work!

@RexTorres

Жыл бұрын

I would think that they'd cover the manananggal since it's on the thumbnail. 😅

@oxylepy2

9 ай бұрын

Tbh the Penanggalan and similar vampiric creatures are some of my favorites.

An episode on the Devil and devil-like figures would be awesome.

@theblackbaron4119

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, there are so many across history. Well some more or less with the same job.

I remember something about being able to stop a vampire or distract it, something about them not being able to resist counting things such as a box of buttons or pins etc dumped on the floor. And that made me think of the Count, on Sesame Street.

I really recommend the book "Upiór. Historia naturalna" by Łukasz Kozak. It's unfortunately only (?) in polish, but it covers decently the vampirism on the grounds of central-eastern Europe, especially the vampires in Poland. It's fascinating how vampirism here was not only connected with "living dead" entiety of some sort, but also with being a witch(er), "the one who knows". They even used in some places (Greater and Lesser Poland for example) a term "wieszcz", "wieszczy", that was later appropriated (? hard to say) by the romantic movement, and from the XIX century it's used to talk about three authors-"prophets" that were talking about liberation of partitioned Poland and the ways how the polish nation should become and how ppl should fight to liberate the country. So, when they buried in Poland the most prominent wieszcz, Adam Mickiewicz, the next years were extra rainy and it disturbed the peasants. They became quickly convinced that Mickiewicz was also "wieszcz" in the folk-vampire-witcher sense, they started talking that he could control the weather when he was alive and now at night he comes out of his coffin, does the mess in the Wawel cathedral, ruffles the sheets and gnaws the candles. They thought that they should throw his coffin to Vistula river (as one's supposed to do with upiórs) to put the things to an end.

@BadCatInHat

2 жыл бұрын

i see that Kozak published "With Stake and Spade. Vampiric Diversity in Poland" in egnlish; it's a collection of translated first sources though, without the cultural-historical context as in his "Upiór" book.

@agnieszkakwarciak5836

Жыл бұрын

Dzięki za rekomendację, o rodzimych wampirach najchętniej poczytam u źródła. Co do wieszcza - to tłumaczy inspirację Uzdańskiego do napisania Wypióra :)

40:00 - Fun detail about the term "Vrykolacas", in Romanian "Varcolac" - a word most likely derived from that - literally means Werewolf. - And it's pretty common in the old folklore for the two to be somewhat synonymous, as I recall stories telling of vampires often stalking the night in the disguise of wolves or other beasts of the forest.

@teefrankenstein4340

2 жыл бұрын

Which would be similar to Native American Wendigo and Skin Walker.

@Whickerx7

Жыл бұрын

From my understanding werewolves are what happened when you try to kill a vampire but don't put it down permanently.

@MrKoraboras

Жыл бұрын

@@Whickerx7 Other way around and not entirely true. The killing bit was irrelevant, what prevented the 'rise to vampirism' was doing something to the corpse, which varied from beheading to putting a brick into the corpse's mouth to putting the corpse face-down in a coffin, so the vampire digs its way down instead of up. And the vampires could've been 'born' from: witches, werewolves, redheads, seventh sons of seventh sons, curses, accident, being a victim of another vampire, being unbaptised, improper burial, being sinful and probably tons of other things, depending on region.

@brianfitch5469

Жыл бұрын

@@teefrankenstein4340 No it would be what is called a dogman. Thousands of sightings in America alone yearly. And worldwide on every continent.

@SphynxEgo

Жыл бұрын

@@teefrankenstein4340 Werewolf and Skin Walker are no the same . A werewolf is a beast slave of the night/ moon . A Skin Walker Wendigo is a shapeshifter , which also serve the night and the moon but has control over his ,,curse,, . A werewolf will still have a humanoid shape while a Shapeshifter will be able to adopt the whole wolf shape .

I think the draugr is an underrepresented vampire ancestor, likely because the draugr itself has also undergone media degradation. But if we look at what a draugr in the sagas is then it is nothing like a zombie at all, it is far more magical and mystical and powerful. They represent the magical side of certain modern powerful vampire depictions very well. In Grettirs saga we meet an undead creature named Glamr which is where the word "Glamour" comes from. He can do some strange magical stuff that belongs in a horror movie, like how he curses the "hero" Grettir to never again have a peaceful nights sleep because he will always see the glaring eyes of Glamr staring at him from the corner of the room, even when he closes his eyes. He also has some much more dire magic as he curses Grettir to never become stronger, turning his whole life into a downwards spiral as he will only get weaker and weaker until sickness takes him. Other sagas and stories about draugrs also prop them up as very physically powerful creatures on top of their magical abilties, just like vampires. In one saga two brothers in arms swear to spend 3 nights and days in the burial mound of whomever dies first. One of them ends up dying and starts fulfilling his promise, climbing into his friends mound from the top, roping down with some food and drink. He sits there opposite of his friends corpse for days when some strange things happen. For example, the mound is filled with goods meant for the deceased to enjoy in the afterlife, including animals. The friend witnesses the corpse of his old buddy tear a horse in two with his bare hands. The point being that every night the draugr friend eats more and more until the last night when he attempts to eat his living friend. These are examples of draugrs being both physically and magically powerful beings, just like Vampires often are depicted as. But I have one more example which makes the draugr even more vampire-like. I sadly don't remember the name of this one either but all of these accounts of draugrs in sagas are easily found here on youtube. The final one is a spiteful viking guy who gets buried a few times because he keeps coming back. But whats so vampire-like about him is that he sort of corrupts everything around his stone-mound of a grave. The grass dies, animals who walk by it die, everything goes bad. So the people nearby try to dig him up to move him which is when they see that he is not decomposed at all, he has in fact grown and become stronger, very much like a vampire. But this example even has the shapeshifting abilities of a vampire, sort of, like a proto-shapeshifting. Because after they kill the draugr he has cursed a cow, causing it to birth a black calf with a limp just like the draugr had. This calf grows into a monsterous bull with the same hate as the draugr, it is clear that his "spirit" has possessed the bull before birth, making it a draugr bull. Thats why I think the draugr is the proto-version of a vampire. But because of this connection, the concept of a vampire not being able or willing to travel far from it's coffin actually makes sense, because the draugr does not stray far from its bural mound (other than the times when they do). (Wrote this all before I got to the part where you mentioned it) They don't fit the part of a bramstoker vampire, but they certainly fit the role of powerful, often intelligent, magical undead which is a major part of the vampire identity, so considering how old the concept of the draugr is, I'd consider them a true ancestor of the vampire. The skyrim draugrs are more like zombies which I don't think is accurate at all. Norse folkore does have zombies aswell but they usually refer to them with other words like "aptrgangr" which means "after walker" which is like a zombie who annoys you by stomping on your roof.

Interesting that you mention suffocation as the way that most "vampires" kill their victims: In Alby Stone's: Hellhounds Werewolves and the Germanic Underworld, he mentions that the "Arg" part, of the word Warg (meaning wolf) denotes Strangulation or sometimes "one who is strangled", possibly referring to the manner in which perpetrators would kill or be killed (via hanging) - in addition, being declared a "Werewolf" was what is called a "Magico-Legal" term, and violent criminals (possibly one's who had asphyxiated their victims?) were officially declared Werewolves ("thou art become a wolf!") and banished outside the towns or city's walls and into the wilderness, and is most likely where we derive the term Wolfshead, as in a bandit or brigand.

@kaikaikool1973

2 жыл бұрын

What about doorknob hangings?

@JPOGame

Жыл бұрын

What time time line does this come from? Makes me think of the "Wolf people" aka the Dacians.

@lisawilson2006

Жыл бұрын

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@vladius8521

Жыл бұрын

ever enhanced a drink with another ingredient to make it so good? yes sufffocation is bs.. throw it away because nothing beats adrenaline and fear.

@vanhohenheim9249

5 ай бұрын

As far as I know Varg means alone or.solitary/ outcast and that's the name they use for wolves in swedish

Just start at 14 minutes.

as an aspiring science fiction/fantasy writer this channel that i just found now is pure gold! Thank you so much!

In Western Serbia people used to put wreaths of garlic over windows and doors, there was also belief that if you encounter vampire you should throw handful of wheat grains and it would compel vampire to count the grains and give you time to escape. For some reason water mills were vampire’s favorite hiding spots.

@-PV-

2 жыл бұрын

Man, this is why I love my people so much, they just know how to have some damn fun WHILE making serious concern of things.

I greatly appreciate the back and forth between you two during these videos.

I love this! It's pretty challenging to piece together all this information, especially with all the poorly written articles found on the internet today. I am glad you showed the source material as well. I've been fascinated by these old folklore and myths and where they started. I have actually been trying to look into witches and werewolves and am still doing so. But I was surprised that their mythology intertwines. I am not gonna lie, I would love to see you do mythillogical on those subjects as well.

Funny how you mentioned Draugr and Skyrim. I'm actually playing Skyrim right now while listening to this video play through my Bluetooth speaker. Sometimes I'll just spend hours creating and enchanting new armor and weapons and I like listening to videos like this when I'm in a creative mood.

@caucasoidape8838

2 жыл бұрын

Skyrim is still relatively new to me. I look forward to doing a vampire run. hoohoohoo hahahahaha!

I love you guys! You add a nice wit and fun to history while being honest about your limited knowledge and how you research and find more. Such a great series.

Arguably, the most interesting contemporary example of literature going back to the old vampire tradition (being at the same time a postmodern/postdramatic piece) is Dimitris Lyacos's With the People from the Bridge, second instalment of his Poena Damni trilogy. Eerie, ritualistic and almost devoid of blood - until the final scene. Well worth checking out.

Polidori’s tale touched off this fascination. Two centuries ago he corrected the drastic deficiencies of the folklore and reimagined the vampire as a suave, mysterious, sexually dynamic elite who defies time and place, who consumes ravenously and without guilt, and who represents perverse passions that will not die.

@AverageAmerican

2 жыл бұрын

Real vampires are pretty disgusting. The real ones like the royal bloodlines want you to contribute to your demise and will challenge you to something in the order to elicit permission to slay you. At that point, almost any gesture or word you say may be taken as complicit, except a firm "no!" Although they are big-time blood drinkers, they don't do it the way Hollyweird does. I think they typically rip off your limbs and head or they reach into your chest and rip out your heart.

@dpc3324

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. This is probably also the same reason the adrenochrome conspiracy was created and took off in the last couple decades

@bumblebee4280

Жыл бұрын

@@dpc3324 That was not a conspiracy. Nice try.

@dpc3324

Жыл бұрын

@@bumblebee4280 conspiracies can be true and still be called conspiracies dude. A conspiracy is just something that a group of people are doing together that they’ve kept secret (people conspiring together for a common goal=conspiracy)

@Badficwriter

6 ай бұрын

Drastic deficiency? Next you'll bemoan the lack of sexy ghouls..

As a mechanic I've come to the conclusion that the blood being associated with life force has the exact same origins as the idea that electronics run on smoke, as any observer will note when either substance is let out in great quantities the former home of said substance ceases to function

Had an honors course in college, Mythic Dimensions of Literature, and the final project was a report on a mythical story and how it changed throughout the ages and cultures. I chose “the Vampire” and my professor was blown away by how much information I packed into my essay. Even going back to bce. It was a very interesting research project.

@r.a.panimefan2109

2 жыл бұрын

The earliest vampire I've ever sluiced out was impero Over 2000 years old. And they can't do sun silver. Have no soul. Are immortal. I think the vampire legend has mixed and changed

@Emerald.She-Ra

Жыл бұрын

Was your research ever published? I'd love to read it!🥰

@hughiegibson1716

Жыл бұрын

@@Emerald.She-Ra oh lord no, it wasn’t that good. Lol

@funsometimes

Жыл бұрын

can i read your essay?

This is a topic I’ve been sinking my teeth into (if you will) as of late. And I love finding a few more of the scarce historical discussions outside of the Dracula mythos. Thank you!!

Vampires are very well documented and they continue to exist. Have you see the Twilight vampire documentaries?

@nicholasdalli6303

2 жыл бұрын

Not going to lie you had me in the first half.

@roddy6924

2 жыл бұрын

True Blood.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasdalli6303 I used to work with a guy who would go out to bars and hook up with women and he had a talent for convincing girls he just met that night to let blood for him to drink, dude would feed like 5-7 times a month and probably hook up with about 10 different women a month. He told me he was trained how to do this by a long lasting cult of people who practice vampirism and masonry. He would also get together with a group of like minded fellows and eat human meat twice a year. Honestly after meeting more than a couple people like that... I dunno if there are immortal vampires but they definitely exist and have been doing this sort of thing for a while.

@voltairethegoldflame9280

2 жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Yeah, if there are real vampires, they definitely have secret societies of some kind.

@nicholasdalli6303

2 жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Yeah I had a book about some weird or fantastical occurences in my country - its one of those thin paperback type of books with generic pictures of vampires, UFOs and satanistic talismans on the cover - it always seemed hokey-pokey to me. In it there was an interview with a couple who said they drank blood, liked to wear black and hated the sun. Honestly these people are often just some combination of indoor aficionados who have a sensitivity to sunlight because of some medical malady or because they were shut-ins and who also have a darker mentality whether genetically or culturally achieved who seem to connect themselves with the ideals of the vampire we see in pop culture. These sorts of things, people who are "odd" for a number of intersecting reasons conglomerating together and convincing themselves they are XYZ because of their contemporary culture have always happened. Like how aerial phenomena was once angels now its UFOs and aliens or military aircraft - cultural delusions are a big factor.

Picking up on one ‘symptom’ of the victims that came up in serval descriptions was the ‘vampire’ crushing the person with their body, sitting on their chest or throttling them. Sufferers of Type Narcolepsy quite often experience sleep paralysis that is accompanied by hallucinations of a specific figure, daemon or terrifying person either standing over them, sitting in there chest or laying on them. Pretty damn specific, perhaps a catalyst to local vampirism hysteria of the time

First of your videos I've listened to, and I was hooked as soon as you began to list your sources. Seriously, I wish more people sourced their stuff, mega kudos from a huge fan of proper sourcing!

One other note regarding garlic: It does have medicinal properties in warding off some parasites. I currently use it in my pet's diet, as she is highly allergic to veterinary flea treatments. My solution after doing research was to create a home diet that incorporates a few key ingredients, one of them being garlic. For the last 12 years she has never been flea or tick bitten, so regarding the folkloric 'strong smells dissuade miasma', smell is probably not the only reason garlic specifically is mentioned in keeping away disease, it probably was also noted to work for centuries with minor medicinal value. I just find it interesting that its related to blood sucking vampires, and it helps keep blood sucking little disease carrying insects off my pet.

I thought the word Striga and strigoi is a clear relative to the Latin word Strix as in ancient Greek Strix. In Italian Strega is the witch, which also in ancient times believed to suck on kid's blood, Same as the Strix in ancient Greek and Roman folklore. The scientific name of a small howl is Strix, from the ancient Greek word for it and it is derived from the sound they make, a screech. (In Italian the sound is also called stridere, the root seems to come from there). I have no idea if all this has any sources though, but it makes sense to me 😅

Funeral director here. I want to talk about what's really going on with the signs of being a vampire. Things I encounter myself. The nails growing - nails stay the same, they appear to get longer because the skin of the hands dehydrate causing the skin to shrink and harden. Much more of the nails are visible than any time in life. The looking full - the body bloats as the intestines decompose. Anyone see a hit deer on the side of the road in the heat of summer bloated to near double it's size? That brings me to the blood at the mouth - that pressure of gases of bloating pushes the now commingled body fluids from stomach and lungs out the easiest exit, the mouth. This is called purge and is a dark brownish red or dark red depending on the mix of body fluids. The skin coming of to reveal new skin - as skin decomposes the layers separate and the outer layer is very fragile. It peels off at a touch and is called skin slip. The lack of being stiff - rigor mortis isn't permanent. As the muscles begin to decompose rigor of course let's go. Did I get all of them? Let me know if I missed any

@hoibsh21

11 ай бұрын

Fascinating and gross!

I have been binge consuming all of your content. It's so good. THERE'S REFERENCES! Thank you guys so much

I thoroughly DIG your thoroughness, amigos! You guys won my subscription to your channel and my total esteem. I have not yet finished this video, being about 40% into it. I am sure to find what I present below in the video, yet wanted to offer what is not commonly known outside of the Gaelic-speaking world -- especially unknown to the English speaking world. Bram Stoker was a man from the province of Uladh, or 'Ulster' to the English-speaking world. The term comes from Old Norse, it being given begrudgingly and in respect by the Vikings, who had successful invasions and campaigns in every other part of Ireland historically, yet never knew such in the northern province they eventually proclaimed as not their own land, but rather belonged to the people they remained unable to defeat in combat known as the Uladh: Ulad's Tir. The historic fierceness in battle of the people of Ulster is legendary, and an incredible accomplishment given the smaller stature of the people from the province. Visit Northern Ireland even today and you will note the radical difference between those people and the type of people you see in the rest of Ireland. Darker-haired, darker-eyed, and smaller, skinnier statures that represent a mix of Gaelic and Cruithne blood, with relatively little Scandanavian, as compared to the rest of Ireland. I propose a more local derivation for the word 'vampyre' : Gaelic fiam-beithir, meaning 'awful monster' which well approximates the English pronunciation of vampire'. It remains surely well known among your subscribers that Bram Stoker derived the name 'Dracula' from the Gaelic 'droch-fhula' meaning 'bad blood' and is pronounced nearly exactly the same as in English one says 'Dracula'. It remains a consequence of the English conquest a certain shame among the Irish of our own culture, language, heritage. Much more romantic and exotic and exciting to set the work of fiction in a foreign land like Romania / Hungary / Transylvania and to hide behind double entendre / homonyms the true, ethnic heritage of the story, which may well have been based on the supposed real-life vampire that was a certain, local chieftain historic within Ulster known as Abhartach or Avartagh. For the record, that the rest of the world recognize in truth the more humble and actual facts: The true roots of the vampire and its actual origin is with the ethnically distinct people of the Northern Irish province of Uladh ( Ulster in English ) who are the progeny of the historic mixture of Cruithne and Gaelic blood and cultures. Exact same people who arrived on the battlefield naked, painted blue ( from the glasrum local to Northern Ireland and Scottland ), and with tatoos. For the convenience of the English speaking world, the Cruithne are known to you as the 'Picts' from the history of these isles... Very same people who gave the world Halloween, Banshees and whose most venerated and beloved deity was, and in some growing circles is, Macha. This people is ethnically distinct from the rest of Ireland, and certainly from the English, Welsh, Cornish, and the Scottish ( whether of Gaelic or Danish roots ). Tragic remains the fact that the lands of these people remains under colonial occupation and with a foreign, active military imposition that continues what already has been a thousand years of occupation by the English. The unequivocal, continuing warzone of Ulster is the true home of the vampire. Take care, amigos! F.

Cinemasscre did a video on Nosferatu, the 1922 film, recently on his channel and claimed that vampires "burning away in sunlight" was actually invented by that film.

In Sweden, we have the “nattmara” (yes, exactly like nightmare), which is an evil spirit who takes the form of a woman who attacks mainly men in their sleep by sitting on top of them to suffocate them. Interesting how much folklore is similar in different parts of the world!

@princessa6412

9 ай бұрын

Oh wow! There is something similar to that in the middle east

i was a Navy Pharmacy Tech and one of the interesting things where commercial medicine and pharmacy is inferior to socialized medicine was illustrated by leeches, which were kept at big navy (socialized) hospitals. People who have amputated body parts reattached tend to have blood accumulate in them, which can make the body part not reattach properly, because the larger, deeper arteries are more easily reattached than the smaller, more numerous veins. you use leeches to remove blood specifically from those body parts, and they contain a host of good drugs that help healing, anticoagulants and antibiotics, stuff made so the leeches hosts would survive to be fed on again. but there is no profit in keeping leeches, so (unless this has since changed) most hospitals have no interest, life-saving and important or not

That was quite informative and, from what I can tell, very well researched. Thank you for making this video and helping to further my education in folk lore of the world. I knew a lot of vampire attributes were creations of cinema and Bram Stoker, but I did not know the extent of the deliberate distortions of real folkl ore post Dracula.

I'm a huge history buff 💪 and this was like finding gold!!!! I am so glad I came across this.....

I've just discovered this podcast and can't wait to finish and listen to more! So far this is absolutely awesome and a pleasure to listen to. Fascinating stuff, perfect for relaxing and learning. Thanks, I have subscribed!

Just found your channel and I’m greatly enjoying your podcast deep dives! Also, loved the What we do in the Shadows reference. :) looking forward to catching up on all your videos.

Vampire in English language comes from a German word for vampire - Vampir which is directly adopted from the locals when Austro-Hungary gained control of the northern Serbia. Other versions in Slavic languages come from the word vampir. It is interesting to point out that Serbian language containes also a word štriga which derives from the word striga and means witch or malevolent spirit, but it does not mean vampir (vampire).

@Gabrieliuka

10 ай бұрын

I wanted to comment on that part too. I'm Lithuanian and I've never seen the word used for drinking, though it could, of course, be something too archaic to remain in modern usage. I have, however, heard it used in descriptors to say something was wilting, dying, weak. Like some plant on its last leg or a lifelong alcoholic nearing an early grave. But I really don't think the name would come from Lithuanian, why would it. There's not even a big vampire idea here in the folklore.

@pasza_dem

10 ай бұрын

​@@GabrieliukaI don't know about Lithuania, but all Slavic languages have some form of vampire: Wąpierz, upiór in Polish; упырь вурдалак, in Russian, Belarusian вупыр, Ukrainian упир. And all those folklore creatures are exactly undead man with drinks blood or eats flesh, and he is sleeping in grave.

Man hearing all these amazing creatures unbeknownst to me made me think that these would be perfect for video games. Like showing off one of these in game can give the due full recognition they deserve

fun fact. in kindergarten this kid walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to be a vampire, of course I said uh okay.. yeah. we then put our hands together kinda like a double high five and he started mumbling jibberish. needless to say I was definitely the cool kid in school.

So glad to see someone shedding light on the subject. An author I highly recommend and respect is John Michael Greer. He is an esoteric author, Freemason, Druid, conservationist, and polymath. He has a book titled “Monsters: an investigator’s guide” that goes into the folk lore of many monsters, including the vampire.

This was a great introduction to you guys. That joke about the Rains Down in Africa, probably the best vampire joke I've ever heard definitely the first one to actually make me laugh. Edit: I had to listen to the section on the Jaing Chi twice. Why wasn't there any mention of it's weakness regarding running water? It's not supposed to be able to cross even a small stream. The story about how they came to have their image was interesting though.

@blackholemonkey

9 ай бұрын

I second the Toto jokes. 10/10

A while ago I researched everything about vampires and thought a Histocrat episode would complete it. Now is the time! Knowing that different writers before Stoker painted a picture of the vampire, characteristics and so on, I realised Stoker did indeed a great work but a lot you can find in literature before. All the novels are great to read, Stokers Dracula is a mixture of that previous works. Very interesting also that he actually wanted Dracula to set in Austria but changed his mind and moved it to Transylvania. What was also very interestinf or me that in the 1700s if i recall right that vampire thing became very famous in the European land. It swapped over from the east but the western people did not buy the superstition and sent scientists to research the cases of people who died and allegedly not died.. complete. They were really aware of it and wanted to stop the panic and solve in a scientific way, what they did in the end by declaring it as nonsense. This just shows me how educated people could be even 300 years ago.

I didn't realise the podcast was released so much sooner than the video, although given the length of the videos and you not having full time professional editors on hand I really shouldn't be surprised!

You guys do a great job! I recently stumbled onto this series and am very happy to see you guys put forth this kind of soundly researched info. I always thought vampires were just a metaphor for vices. Their historical context is very interesting to learn about

I wanted to correct you because the term "Hajduk" doesn't mean soldier. Hajduks were bandits who robbed Turkish merchants and somewhat of an early form of Partisan/Guerilla fighters. You could say they were soldiers but they weren't part of any institution instead they were small groups of men lead by a "Harambaša" so in essence very clearly a bandit band.

@MegaDoctorMonkey

Жыл бұрын

@Kenen not really because they weren't paid for their work or hired to do the robbing as far as I know. They were an early form of rebellion against Turkish oppression.

@claudiubabusca4810

Жыл бұрын

I would call them in todays terms patriots

Don't forget the most common form of vampire: landlords!

@crestfallenknight6599

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly akin to the foul strighoi!

@onefeather2

2 жыл бұрын

And politicians

@zhitchcresttail3387

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigredwolf6 you live in quite an idealized world

@cdreid9999

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalists

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

giód idear

I grew up in Zimbabwe, but from Zambian parents, live back home now in lusaka Zambia. I grew up afraid of something called amaZimu, Zimus were known to live in the dark and lived of blood of the living. Why is this phenomenon all over the world, I'm talking about the time before I even watched Salem's Lot. Salem's Lot even terrified me more. Couldn't sleep for months.

In Polish mythology strzyga and wampir (wąpierz) are two different creatures. They are both krwiopijcy - blood drinkers. People born with certain face or dental deformations and mentally ill were often seen as strzygi. Also newborns with developed teeth. When strzyga was identified, it was usually banished from settlements to die in the wild. Those who survived, could shapeshift and feast on human or animal flesh and blood. They usually then haunted their families and settlements they were banished from. Those beliefs came most probably from the Balkan tribes. Wąpierz was a creature that returned from the dead in a human corpse and had to drink human blood to survive. Most probable theory is that those beliefs came from China through Turkish\Osman influences in Eastern and Central Europe. Chinese medicine included drinking fresh cattle blood for many ailments. Attempts to drink human blood for the same purposes were made. It was believed in Poland that suchh practices will later cause a dead person to return as a wąpierz.

Oooh, I'm late to this one, but how exciting! I'm sure half of us were holding our breaths for this one! Thank you both for putting so much tireless work and research into every episode of this program! We love it!

I seem to remember that South Slavs buried their dead with garlic or onions (there are no separate words for the two, they are both called Luk, and are distinguished as white and red Luk respectively) to prevent vampirism. This may date back to the time of the plague and have been warped into a vampirism thing since then of course

@caain8454

Жыл бұрын

Not red, but black. White and black onion. Црни и бели лук.

@bobmcbob9856

Жыл бұрын

@@caain8454 I’ve heard both.

@bobmcbob9856

Жыл бұрын

@@caain8454 Now that I think about it, crni luk might refer to what English speakers call Brown Onions, but that some people (either just my family, people in a certain dialect group, whatever) never distinguished them from red onions and called all onions crni or crveni luk interchangeably.

"Vlad the poker" Aaaaaand now my mind is picturing a bunch of dracula actors throughout the ages singing poker face.

Dude I can't thank yall enough for this vid since it helped me so much for finding sources for my essay I'm writing about vampires

I'm doing research on vampires and stumbled on this video, I truly loved all the information, especially the part focusing on non-european legends. But, as a brazilian, I want to make a correction about the Iara. Iara is a well-known myth here, but its origins are not in the catholic church, rather in the indigenous people. But she's not a type of vampire, actually, she's close to a mermaid and often associated with Iemanjá, an orixá (a type of deity) of african-influenced religions. Hope I said everything right, english is not my first language obviously. Thanks for this episode tho!

Favorite and most weird vamp fact of mine is that dhampiers are sometimes described as being boneless. What does that mean? Why would they do this? What the actual hell?

When it comes to the "counting matter". My grandmother told me all kinds of stories from the olden days(she grew up in the Slovak mountains/Carpathians) and one of those stories occured every year on St.Lucy´s day(13th december) - which is considered to be a cursed day here in Slovakia. Before the sun would set, her grandfather would take garlic and with it, make the sign of the cross on every doorframe and windowframe in the house and the barn where they kept their lifestock. Then he would take a sack full of poppyseeds and spread them around the house and said barn, creating a circle. All of this was a preventive matter to fend off vampires, who(among other things) are said to be very active on this specific day. Especially the circle made of poppyseeds. It was thought that the vampire would count the poppyseeds until the morning, and thus he could not approach the house itself. But even if he could, the crosses made of garlic would prevent him to enter the house and barn anyway. This all happened back in the 50´s and 60´s, when my grandmother was still a child. But since her grandfather lived well into his 90s, I expect that he most probably observed this "tradition/ritual" until the 1970´s or even 1980´s. Anyway, here are two interesting facts for you. 1) The last vampire hysteria in Slovakia occured in the 1930´s. 2) As if fate wanted it, my grandmother was born on the 13th of december(thus St.Lucy´s day). But since her family believed this day was cursed, they officially changed the day of her birth to be on the 12th of december. (Better safe than sorry, I guess)

Omg!! This is so well made, PLEASE continue making more content like this😭🙏❤

I saw economic news and it said blood was largest cash crop over cereal, vegetables or meat in the U.S.A over last couple of years.

As much as I know in Poland we had not only "strzyga" but also creature called "wąpierz". Also in our language names as "mara" and "upiór" can be found to describe similar creatures. PS. guys; "rz" is one sound in polish. Thease two letters should not be read separately. 😉 So if you want to say "strzyga" more correctly it would be rather: stshyga. (i don't know how to describe this sound more acurate in english (you just don't have such a hursh sound), but "sh" in that case should do the trick. 😉 Anyways, good reserch 🙂

From a Polish family that moved to America in the 1910s - within living memory in my family there was a folk superstition that anyone born "under the veil" (indeed the amniotic membrane as you suggest with the "red cowl") might develop some sort of prophetic or clairvoyant powers. My great-aunt (born c. 1920) was spoken of as having been "born under the veil" and seems to have taken to the identity wholeheartedly - she routinely read tea leaves and was treated with a bit of extra awe and reverence (and even fear) by the rest of the family for what they viewed as her uncanny perception. There was notably no connection to vampirism (or anything else viewed as "evil," per se) by the 20th century about this, it seems, but rather to mind-reading and/or clairvoyance. An interesting holdover of this ancient lore and a blending of the traditions of vampirism with Slavic witchcraft; the sign that might have once indicated a vampire instead indicating a "natural witch." It's interesting to note that this was never considered by anyone in the family as being incompatible with Catholicism; my great-aunt was also a devout lifelong Catholic and was ultimately buried in a Catholic cemetery.

Came across your chanell by accident,subscribed immediately! Thank you so much for the documentary, your work is awesom!

Bloodletting does actually have a mild antibacterial effect so it makes sense that it would work for some illnesses.

@GermLoc

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If I'm not mistaken the concept within Tylenol took logic from bloodletting in order to understand where blood is the cause of an ailment and where the 'thinning' of the blood can alleviate said affliction

My mother had a book of British folk tales that I loved to read, and it included a story about the vampire of Croglin Grange. I TO THIS DAY have a mild fear of uncovered windows at night. Well worth reading about if you get the chance. Wikipedia says it's from the 1890s.

@AlexTBon4073

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You should, close them.

@ItsYaBoiV

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@A J I prop things in my windows, too! I started doing it when I lived in a scummy neighborhood, in case of theft. And then my bf sleeps with his window cracked OPEN like some kind of nut job. 😂

wow there is so much info in this! love the von count joke! i remember being so scared of Jiangshi when i was a child hahaha

As someone who has the occasional bout of sleep paralysis... Yeah, I can see that being a cause for alarm for someone who didn't know what it was. Especially if you have more than just the "can't move hard to breathe" version; I do sometimes get visual hallucinations, or the most intense, terrifying paranoia you have ever felt. Like "someone is in my room and going to kill me" level freaking out.

25 minutes into the video. Ok, vampiric revenants and revenants (generally a term used by folklorists to refer to corporeal undead) are known to be shapeshifters throughout many regions in the world (often into black dogs, owls, among other animals in Europe) and Balkan revenants (which very much seems to be where Bram Stoker's main inspiration for Dracula comes from) like pretty much any other European revenant were thought to retain the intelligence and abilities they had in life in addition to having various supernatural abilities (superhuman strength and speed as well as shapeshifting and more). Not sure if this was addressed later in the video but if not, this is a huge aspect of the "vampire" to miss out in a two hour long video about vampires. Another thing, the term wight derives from Old English wiht meaning LIVING being, not a dead one. It's only in modern fantasy literature and video games that the term wight has been associated with barrow-dwelling undead creatures.

Fascinating. I've been interested in this type of thing for a while. The scenes of Abraham Setrakian being told vampire (Strigoi) stories by his Bubbe in The Strain reminded me of childhood stories, not always conducive to sleep but sure to encourage good behaviour. The breadth of myths around the world and hematophagous/exsanguinating blood feeding humanoids is astonishing.

I’m so stoked that you used Barbers book! I read it for a research paper I did last semester on vampires and it was so great!

The original Dracula was played by Lugosi Béla, a hungarian actor. He of course had a hungarian accent which became known the vampire accent. One more point for me to be happy that hungarian is my mother language hehe

@angelareeves967

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His name was Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó but his stage name was Bela Lugosi. I apologize if my comment comes off rude. I do not mean to seem like that lol it’s just that you put his surname before his first name. It bothered/annoyed me for some unknown reason and felt the need to put it right. I know I’m awkward 😝😆🥲

@user-si7lv4hj2h

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@@angelareeves967 oh i always knew him as Lugosi Béla hehe Thanks tho! I’ve never seen his real name mentioned. It’s not rude dw haha

@sharonbraselton4302

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beka draca beka mearied edaward 2 hin nared vaoiers had ybde bampier hun babiers

I only recently found out about the Scottish folklore character Baobhan sith which is more of a vampyric succubus. Having grown up here I was slightly disappointed I had never heard of one before.

This may be vary late, but from other folklore that I’ve heard about the Jiangshi is it fears fire, roosters when they crow for it means the sun is rising, and if you hold your breath, they will not be able to see you, or find you. Sticky rice is another weakness, however, I do not really know how it is used, peaches was mentioned too.

im laughing so much. 🤣 your comment about finishing as the sun coming up is gold for me because the sun is rising for me too as i finish your podcast

Technically speaking, considering the high amount of stem cells in blood, particularly in young children, blood could be a successful treatment for a variety of conditions, but it would be very hit and miss, do to the delivery method. I'm wondering if stomach ulcers were more common back in the day, giving quick access to the bloodstream via ingestion. Also note how the description of the bloodsuckers reflects what literary class viewed as the threat to society; the untamed wild, unexplainable illnesses, and then the depravities of the upperclasd

I'm surprised that you mentioned the succubus and incubus but not the sidhe which are described as love vampires but you guys did go over a LOT and it was very interesting!!!

@Badficwriter

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Haha I just brought that up in another reply but didn't realize it hadn't come up in the video. You're right! Incubi/succubi are part of Abrahamic demonology but Stoker, an Irishman, would've been raised on stories of dangerous unseelie who are more like the sexy vampires. Fae are also sometimes connected to the dead as well.

I enjoyed every second of this video Thank you guys!

Your videos are amazing, please keep making them!

He was meant to say Northern Serbia instead of Northern Syria.