ya although i like action vampire movies i would like to see a change in all the violance all the time,i did like the series what we do in the shadows although its abit to much satire for me but it was interesting to watch.
I remember my girlfriend's grandmother kept a broom next to or hanging on all the doors in her house. When I asked her why she did it she said they were there in case a vampire comes in the night while she sleeps they have to stop and count all the bristles and by the time they finish the sun would come up and they would have to leave. She was dead serious in her belief of them.
IS NOT A BROOM BUT BEATS IF ONE CHASING YOU YOU TROUW THE BEATS, HE CAN'T ADVANCE TILL HE NUMBERS THEM BY GATHER THEM, THE BROOM UPSIDE DOWN IS USE TO CHANGE THE BAD LUCK TO GOOD LUCK.*** THE ORACLE
I'm from Romania and in the country side it is still belived that the dead will come out at night as a Strigoi and they will eat you. 10 years ago my grandpa died and grandma paid the grave digger to put a stake through his heart so that he will not come back as a strigoi at night, i don't believe in any supernatural but i find it interesting that people even in this era still practice some of the old traditions Edit: and i saw on the news that some people used a horse to see if there were any vampiers/strigoi in the cemetery, if the horse didn't walked over a grave it was marked as a strigoi's grave
LTH link* Is it still true. In Romania there are still legends or has PERCAUTIONS so the dead will never come back to HAUNT OR ATTACK the LIVING?? UP to this day...and is there is any VAMPIRE STORIES still today there and in TRANSYLVANIA
If you are in Romania and ask them about Dracula you d BETTER do so in a respectful manner otherwise those people will be very angry with you because to them he was a great hero who kept the Turks out of THIER lands throughout at least part of his lifetime....
Sherry Glisson ~ Exactly rite . My mother’s ancestry ( both paternal & maternal ) came from Hungary. Her Fathers side from Veszprem & my mother was told that Vlad Tepes was not a vampire & that he was a hero due to fighting back the Turks . They seem him as a fierce warrior with honor & have statues of him ! Thanks
I recently spent a few weeks traveling through Transylvania and I visited the castle that inspired Bram Stoker's castle in the novel. I also visited the real Dracula's(Vlad Dracul) childhood home. Beautiful region, Transylvania.
How completely awesome,, I've only seen it thru actually old documentary.. wasn't the Castle destroyed,, the castle where he was, raised is beautiful, ... Have you seen the modern I'll call it Docu drama, that actually Great,, tasteful, enter cut with narration with local historians, cheers from Southern California.
@@beforcialI had heard that "dracul" root is that of "dragon" which was the representation of his noble house as someon already told here in a comment.
@@emperomassinencambio...9941 Romanian here, "dracul" means "the devil" in modern Romanian and "drac" means devil. However, in old Romanian it also meant dragon, and "draculesti" means "of the dragon" and yes most likely comes from the knightly order the family belonged to.
The reason why he has Dracul in the name was because he was part of a chivalrous order called the Order of The Dragon. Many noblemen through the middle ages were part of it.
I have been researching dark entities/creatures in the occult and esoteric and I have decided to share some of my conclusions here for those who might be interested. It seems that every werewolf is a vampire, but not every vampire is a werewolf. This is because in a occult context, a vampire is any being that feeds on the vital energy of the living, this entity being a dead spirit or a living person. Succubi, black magicians (dark mages who astral project and "fly" (strigoi) using their power to feed on others), ghouls (spirits obsessed with the vital energy released by dead bodies in graveyards) are all vampiric. And werewolves, spirits whose astrospiritual body is deformed into a lupine shape over the course of either very intense connections with negative energy or long periods of time spent in limbo as a restless obsessed spirit, are also vampires, since they feed on the energy and emotions of the living. The classical draculean vampire then, in this context could be considered a merge of several distinct negative entities, since nothing really makes it impossible for one individual to have all the characteristics of multiple entities. Dracula would be a black magician, capable of changing his astrospiritual body at will to that of a wolven human, shapeshifting, and also feasting on the vital energy of others, through astral projecting and commiting psychic attacks. Even the capacity for people to be turned into vampires as described in the book is explainable, since an entity truly becomes vampiric when it grows addicted to the energy of others, once it has drained others so frequently that it no longer knows how to produce its own energy, needing to feed on victims to survive. This is how a victim may also become a vampire, after being drained extensively of their own individual energy, the victim might start draining others to survive, since its own production is insufficient, slowly becoming another attacker.
I think that you've watched "Underworld" too many times... NO Werewolf is a Vampire, and NO Vampire is Werewolf. In fact, they are enemies. Here is why: Vampires come from the descendants of the sons of Lilith. The Sons (and daughters) of Lilith were called Nachsramon (where "ch" is pronounced as in Loch Ness). Their Descendants are called Bachomech ( where "ch" is pronounced as in Loch Ness). And the descendants of them are the Vampires. Werewolves come from one of the abomination species of the Nephilim known as Malchech. (The second "ch" pronounced as in Loch Ness). "god" Anubis was one of them. They were actually "manufactured" by the original Nephilim giants in order to fight the Nachsramon (Sons of Lilith) and Bachomech ( "grandchilds" of Lilith). Werewolves, as long-long descendants of the manufactured warriors of the Nephilim, have also inherited the "natural" hatred towards the sons of Lilith and their descendants. This hatred was "injected" at the very first moment that Malchech were created, in order to make sure that they stayed enemies and didn't ally themselves (later on) with Bachomech, against their creators, the Giants (the original Nephilim).
@@othmanemarmar5154 only one I can think of now is psychic self defense by dion fortune. There are other ones I would recommend but they are in portuguese and have no translation. But this one that I mentioned defines a psychic vampire very well.
I'm a person who's majoring in Russian, and takes Slavic mythology and folklore. Word vampire comes from South Slavic mythology. In Serbian vampire is vampir/вампир. Recently I read about it and found out that vampires (in South Slavic mythology) can come from people who were born out side of marriage. Also as you said we still kept tradition of bringing food to dead, pray for 40 days because South Slavs would do so to make sure that their soul would be at peace and they wouldn't turn into a vampire. If people would go missing or were found dead they'd dig up dead and stab their heart with wood. It's also believed that the child must get baptized because if not they might become vampires. My English is not that good, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much, your English is perfect. I believe in such creatures, and at least psychic vampirism is widely spread. I remember reading somewhere, but I can't remember where there was also a link between "born vampires" (those born with the "condition") and interbreeding. Obviously, Christianity had a huge hand in perverting these facts, I see no condemnation of interbreeding among the Aristocracy. Cheers.
Incestuous origins. Family affair indeed conflated with blood rites and superstition. What could be worse than dead in life. Rotting and stinking of decay while you walk about. Possibly some autoimmune disorder caused by inbreeding. Who knows - the shadow knows. 🤷🏽♀️
There is an Irish legend about a cruel vampire called Abhartach that seems to have been a big inspiration for Bram Stoker. There was a manuscript about it titled "Abhartach, Dreach-fhoula" in Trinity College at the time bram attended There. Dreach fhoula is Irish, Pronounced Droch-ula. It means bad or tainted blood. Balor Otherworld channel has video coming out about it
I heard about this, but there is a lot of questionable sources about it and personally I don't think it is to be trusted. Yet even if the name was inspired, it is very clear that his ideas are taken from reports of vampires in Romania and Eastern Europe generally.
@@FortressofLugh if you think the Irish sources are questionable I don't understand how the European sources can be considered any more credible? Bram wrote himself "DRACULA in Wallachian language means DEVIL". then he alludes to a Dracula who crossed the danube to attack the turks. He never mentioned Vlad the Impaler in any writings. Transylvania was a common setting for gothic stories in the 19th century so I think you are over emphasising the relevance. Finally, brams publisher made him remove the first 101 pages from the dracula manuscript because they felt it was too soon since the Jack the Ripper murders so they didn't want to make the story feel too close to home. That's why the story opens with the lawyer travelling to draculas mansion.
Theres also an Irish legend about a woman who was abused by her husband, killed by him, and before her body had even cooled on the earth had remarried. She came back from the dead, killed everyone in the house and drained of them their blood as revenge for the abuse she suffered.
I'm deeply skeptical about this. It strikes me strongly as somebody trying to make "Dracula" sound Irish Gaelic. "Droch-ula" is quite obvious meant to sound like "Dracula" and it is beyond unlikely to me there is an Irish Gaelic word for blood that just happens to sound like "Dracula". "Dreach" means "face, countenance" and I don't find "fhoula" in my Modern Irish Gaelic dictionary. "Fuil" means "blood" but its pronunciation is closer "fh-uIL" Also, Abhartach was a dwarf, though the tale seems reminiscent in some ways of some vampire tales.
One of the most important points about the vampire myth you covered is that vampirism is a family affair. In the little known novella by Alexis Tolstoy "The Family of the Vurdalak" you have the afflicted grandfather coming back after killing a Turkish vampire who has been murdering his shepherds. He acts strangely and refuses food, but starts to kill and transform his family into vampires one by one. Nineteenth Century writers tend to make the vampire a noble, but I think that grew out of the idea that titled people oppressed the peasants on their land. It was like a perverted droit du seigneur act. The historical Dracula's usual victims were the common people especially the Transylvanian Saxons who wrote the worst stories about him.
Very true, the Transylvanian Saxons (German settlers who came there in the 12th/13th century) were often rich and successful...and a minority. There were plenty of pogroms against them (what happened to jews in Europe on a regular basis for similar reasons), especially cruel ones by Vlad the Impaler. They had no love for him.
Wrong Vampire means eating only liquid milk, juice, coconut juice sugarcane juice is extremely good . Advantage of this life style is skipping toilet. being human and skipping toilet it's great . thing to learn from vampire. Vampire is way of living . People are teaching you wrong nobody wants someone other be better then themselves. The name vampire became so popular and still alive needy people can learn . Sometimes eating hard thing meat rice or banana is good. Do you want to know about mermaid ?
13:33 Yes vampires are werewolves. Or rather werewolves are vampires who have no control over their bloodlust while vampires are far more refined. This is also why Dracula is able to transform into a werewolf while also being a vampire.
@@daemonthorn5888 your opinion means less than nothing to me. i can say you dont exist and write you off as a youtube bot. any evidence you attempt to present to me i'll write off and ignore. you'd do the same to me if i tried proving these things actually exist. it's not that hard being a dismissive feeb.
Pre dracula, there was, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the penny dreadful comics, in these there was a story of Varny the vampire. A more comical aspect of the vampire. It was reading those that gave Bram stoker his initial inspiration to bring the vampire legend into a more hostile and mysterious creature that was Dracula.
One really important thing to understand about vampires is that Japanese as well as many ancient cultures around the world has some version of vampires. In many Asian cultures vampires are very similar to those mentioned in this video well before any European countries had been in contact with these cultures. As are zombies, found in many ancient cultures well before European countries started to migrate to these countries/continent.
First off, it's nice that you mention the missconception that Count Dracula was directly based off of Vlad the impaler. Second, I would like to add something, regarding what you mentioned of vampires that appear bloated from all the blood in them. When a human body decomposes, at some point the stomach will start to swell as it gets filled with gasses produced by the decay. Around the same time, blood starts leaking out of orifices, like the mouth. Put together, it's easy to see how a superstitious person who knows nothing about this, would conclude that the corpse was so full of blood they got bloated from it, and would assumed the corpse had come back to (un)life and sucked it out of someone. Indeed, that is exactly what we see in documented cases of vampirism. It also helps explaining why the idea of corpses coming back to life to drink the blood of the living, is a concept we see in so many cultures all over the world.
Vampires from different parts of the world over thousands of years. Giving us these stories is fabulous and very intriguing! The Countess and Dracula haha we know Vladimir was a great warrior using the only fear tactics he could really mess with his enemies minds! Love it! But back to this story so wonderful! Thank You!
As someone who has read extensively about vampire legends, I have to say your video gave a fresh and fascinating take on the subject. Well done Sir, you've earned one more subscriber.
My wife's from Puerto Rico where they call Barn Owls - Lechuza. Lechuza is also the name for a type of shapeshifting witch in some Spanish speaking countries. Crazy how some folkloric traditions are so similar half a world away.
It always seemed to me that the origins of vampirism come from a disease like Porphyria. This is a rare genetic blood disease caused by a violation of hemoglobin biosynthesis. The symptoms of Porphyria are similar to the vampire weaknesses, for example. 1) Fear of the sun - there is such a form of Porphyria as Gunther's Disease, caused by metabolic disorders and accumulation of UROPORPHYRINOGEN-III in the blood. Patients with this disease have very poor photosensitivity. Upon contact with the lights, their skin becomes covered with burns, blisters, purulent ulcers and subcutaneous abscesses. 2) Thirst for blood - genetic failures and the reproduction of incorrect hemoglobin lead to the development of hemolytic anemia, increased bleeding. Due to chronic hemoglobin deficiency, the patient may experience oxygen starvation and a need for blood. 3) Dislike of garlic - this myth did not appear by chance. Patients do not tolerate garlic because of its chemical composition. The sulfonic acid of garlic causes severe pain from the damage caused by the disease.
I read up on dis yrs ago finally sum1 2 relate 2 I also find out da king n queen of England is related 2 da real Dracula n da queen has a university dat only studies dis disease Porphyria 💯
No, it's a mistake to view it from a modern lens although it may contribute to it. Gotta understand the pagan beliefs of the people who perpetuated beliefs in vampiric spirits and living corpses. For example, blood sacrifices and libations offered at pagan sites to the dead and beings associated with the dead. Also garlic overpowers the stench of a corpse and the heat of the sun quickens the process of decomposition. It's too rare and insignificant to be the primary explanation such a well-preserved and common folk belief.
Hi Fortress of Lugh. I've been listening to your videos over the last few days. I think you have an unprecedented talent in the content you've covered. Many thanks for the video's. My best
I think some clarification is needed for this video : 1. The term Vampire comes from Serbian "Vampir", and it was popularized in the Austro-Hungarian press during 17th and 18th century, since some Serbs (who lived in AH border regions with Turkey, today's northern Serbia) demanded from the AH authorities that some of their dead be excavated, impaled and cremated since they appeared to their family members during night. 2. Indo-Europeans worshiped their dead (they even buried in house), however over time the notion will change and the sickness (plague) was directly correlated with the dead. Giving the dead offerings in form of food and drink was mandatory not only for getting their protection but also for them to stay in graves and not roam around causing trouble. The offerings would be be provided on the day of the funeral, after 7 days, 40 days, six months, a year, and then every year. The dead are always thirsty so even when having a celebration of any sorts or a holiday it is required to mention them and sip a bit of water or wine (wine is an ancient substitute for blood!) on the floor or doorstep. Apart from not providing them with offerings the dead can rise if they're not buried according to specified rituals. For example, it is strictly forbiden for anyone to walk over the person's grave because it can make him a vampire. Horses, cats, and dogs can do the same thing. Matter of fact, a black horse was used in Serbia to find which dead person was a vampire by walking the horse around a cemetery. If the horse refused to walk over a certain grave, that was the proof that the grave in question had a vampire in it. The horses were considered to be demonic in nature so throughout indo-european ethos. For Serbs and Croats a wolf, werewolf and vampire are synonymous. Although a wolf can also be a demon that can be good and used to fight and detract other demons, that's why wolf is the main totemic animal within the Serbs and why the name Vuk (Wolf) is so common. 3. One needs to understand that the ancient Indo-Europeans rarely ever called anything otherworldly (either a god or a demon, if there's any actual difference between them) by its real name, but in euphemisms since knowing and saying its name had consequences. Saying God's name was forbiden because strangers can learn it and start venerating him, stealing it from you and depriving you of any protection (until this day it is still unknown who was the main deity of the City of Rome, not even his or her gender). If it was a demon, you definitely wouldn't say his name because he might actually come and that could only mean trouble. A witch is also a demon of woman who had risen from the dead and it is probably associated with the big nose old woman (Baba Yaga, Baba Roga, la Befana) or a woman with a beak (Strega) and although in most cases it can be evil it doesn't mean that it is. It's all context related.
_"until this day it is still unknown who was the main deity of the City of Rome, not even his or her gender."_ Oh, that's easy if you listen to the pope you don't need Latin to hear how often he speaks of Lucifer who is same as Baphomet that is a mix of genders or androgenous.
@Zanimations I believe I was referring to whomever the pope worships who he calls Lucifer who is a spiritual androgynous being same as Satan, often represented by Baphomet a part goat part man androgynous beast. Mostly my sources are Holy Scripture and listening to video of the pope speak but also observations of the general decor depicted in images of Vatican and Rome architecture common knowledge mostly.
I live in a small village and my house is situated near forest..we don’t have to scared of animals Bcuz there aren’t any..but I watch bats going in the forest every evening like when it’s dark, and little bit of moonlight ..it’s so fascinating and scary at the same time to see them in the sky when it’s full moon..and I can’t even describe those feelings when I see them roaming in the sky and it feels like they are roaming around the moon..
How do you know that? If you don't look into any of the information yourself, literally, anyone could make a video that you consider a documentary, and you'd consider it all true. That's the problem with UA-cam. Anyone can make a UA-cam video. And if the video is well done, then people tend to blindly believe what it says. Without vetting any of the info in it. I'm not saying that is an issue with this video. I'm just drawing attention to the fact that you call these videos, "documentaries" and say that they are, "top-tier", when you really have no idea if anything being said is true or correct at all. I'm not trying to be rude, or what have you, only being bluntly truthful.
Okay lemme guess . . . bcuz every real vampire is a royalty, or blue blood. _Plus,_ every blue blooded vampire shape shifts. One more thing is, they are blood drinkers. Qualities required.
@@FortressofLugh no ,is easy to make videos and misinform others...a very low and weak video in real info ,too superficial,wish Vlad was for real what they lied about him,and to come after all the liars and inventors of this bs stories,and impale them for real 😂,😫such lack of respect of making a video where the real history is over looked ...Huge DISLIKE!😖
@@ugnulanila He didn't say it was the real history of Vlad the Impaler and there was a propaganda campaign against him in his time and Bram Stroker did use that for Dracula. But how much hard truth do you expect in a video about "vampires" released in October anyways?
“I think I should warn you all, when a vampire bites it, it's never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them”. Edgar Frog. The Lost Boys (1987).
The Word Vampire came from the Serbian Vampir. Which comes from another word Povampiren which now means turned into a Vampire but in the past it meant taken over by evil spirits or just evil. The time Vampires started to spread all over the world was when a group of Franch man whent through Serbia seeing Serbs dig up there dead to stake them, sealing coffins, using garlic... They whent back to France where they spread Vampyre from the Serbian Vampir and that evolved into Vampire in English.
The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian вампир (vampir). The word vampire (as vampyre) first appeared in English in 1732, in news reports about vampire "epidemics" in eastern Europe.[14][a] After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and "killing vampires".[16] These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity.
Fascinating, thank you! I've always been puzzled by this fear of death, fear of the dark, fear of the dead, which "seems" to arise with Monotheism, because the first cities, in Summer, they would bury their family members, right under the floors of their homes! Their mostly one room mud brick homes, buried their family, no fear, need to be close to them? What? Not sure if they did the stone thing...
Death and the fear of the dark are quiet self explanatory since most primates are quite defenseless during the night against nocturnal predators. Most scientist believe it is an evolutionary/survival practice that our ancestors realized the need to remove dead bodies, trash and feces away from where one live. Despite the ignorance of the concept of desease and parasites, they know that they must do certain procedures to keep them away. Whether mummifying or doing special graves to keep them. Of couse geology and geography also plays on the ritual they do. Monotheism got nothing whatsoever to do with it, since the practice already being done before that from different countries and different cultures are doing something similar whether Africa or Ancient China, India, SouthEast Asia or Mesoamerica. Similarly, the superstition of the un-dead also seems universal, with similar myths and legends rising independently from each other.
Great Googa Moogas! A serious discussion about vampires that isn't interested in glamorizing the true nature of these creatures. As a fellow who grew up watching Lugosi and Christopher Lee, I can only be grateful that you went to the trouble of putting this video together. Your team rocks.
You sould research about Petar Blagojević, Arnaut Pavle (Paul) and Jure Grando - well known Balkan vampires. Vampire comes from Slavic mythology and folklore, while the word itself come from Serbian (Balkan Slavic) VAMPIR.
So.. what you are saying is that the word "Vampir", which is said to derive from the word "Upyr", means "one who didn't receive a proper burial". But what about the word itself from a linguistic perspective? What does it mean?
Bran stokers Dracula is one of my top 5 horror books. Amazing and so ahead of it's time the book is like a found footage movie reading out of diaries and correspondence.
A lot of effort and zero facts went into this video. Vampire is a Serbian word. This fact is easy to verify. The charlatan got too many views for the misinformation he presented in the video.
Have you ever thought about doing a video on the numerous Celtic branches that there isn’t a lot of information on like the tartessians, ligurians/Corsi, and Galatians?
He has one about Tartessians, but it would be good if there were some videos about minor Celtic nations, that’s not even mentioning others like Cornwall and Brittany.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 it would be even better for those ‘minor’ nations to consider themselves not small but part of the bigger Celtic demographic of the Brythonic, or simply British.
It was always my knowledge and explained to me long ago that Vampir is of Serbian origin. We say Vampir. I was raised knowing this is a Serbian word. Interesting how you found it was proto-slavic. All of our languages come from the same source so there is a lot of similarities and borrowed words. Srbi su pravi vampiri bre
Great work, so many programs seem to furrow the same old ground. I assume you have read Montague Summers work on both vampires and werewolves? I read parts of them, but the guy was utterly insane and liked to change language of the text, halfway through a chapter..
No. Vamprie(Vampir) it's a Serbian word. First Vamprie ever was from Serbia,and it's called Petar Blagojević. Even the Austrian newspaper's in 17th century was written about him.
As an Albanian in Albania we pronounce Vampire as Dhëmbëpirë which sounds like the Slavic pronunciation of Vampir. All my life I was told that Vampire is of Albanian origin & that Slavic people borrowed the word from us (Albanians) and corrupted its pronunciation. Now here is the twist with the Albanian pronunciation of the Dhëmbëpirë - it consists of two Albanian words Dhëmbë & Pirë. Dhëmbë in Albanian means Teeth & Pirë means Drink. So loosely translated into English the Albanian version of DhëmbëPirë means 'TeethDrinker" in other words the one who drinks blood with his teeth after biting & punctuated the skin of his victim with his teeth.
Albanians Are manufactured Nation..you have Arbanas,srbs greeks and sucilians..name was given by italiams to claim or surrpress Serbia ..so basicly you have serb words in do call Albanian language ..which was Split in two dialects,but shqip ptevailed cause mass refugee of saip into Serbia during communism and huge baby boom where communist paid for children..
The vampire word, mythology, and panic spread through the Austrian Empire then into Western Europe because of a Vampire panic in Serbia. At the time northern Serbia was under Austrian rule and there was a particular vampire panic in some town or village that spread so fast it caught the attention of even the royals who sent people to investigate.
Just found this video and I am a folklore nut being part Duch and German. I am now a subscriber of this channel. Loved the video and I am going to see what other videos you have done.
ya they are even like a club or clubs across the world,i remember years ago seeing a documentry of don henry he is a guy that has some sort of blood issue and occasionaly needs fresh blood,he is a head figuur or at the time was of a vampire assosiation.
Great presentation of historically accurate information. Am i the only fan of Vampire the Masquerade, that while watching this, was naming the clans that "caused" those historical rumors, and what disciplines they used in reference to the powers of a vampire? lol
@@smuggrog9821 Cappadocians really doing it too, with the whole walking corpse rottin to the bone. Gqngrel are really to blame for the Strigoi and Vulkolak meaning of owl and wolf Transformations which is really cool
The germanic origin for werwolf doesn’t relate to wolf pelt, as you described. It is from the word wer or man and, well, wolf. So it quite literally means “man wolf”. Though, you are correct about the concept of the werewolf is of Indo-European or possibly Proto Indo European in origin. There are some ideas that it was a way to discuss the PTSD experienced by the ancient warrior class as there are connections to the “wolf” as the warriors of the time.
The history or research of the "Sin Eaters" would be interesting, it is hard to find information on them as i believe they may be connected to other rituals but not always called sin eaters.
Wow! You're theory is fascinating! I'm a big fan of spooky stories of any kind and know tons about vampires. My Bohemian heritage is full of all kinds of stories about things like vampires and more. You had info in this video that was new to me! Bravo! Keep posting! 😁
One of the earliest Vampire folk tales was from Croatia, and the vampire in question carried a lot of the tropes that would much later on be seen in works like Dracula. He was a villager named Jure Grando who died but at night the villagers would see him walking about. He lusted and attempted to sexually assault women. The locals could ward him off with prayers and Christian symbols. They attempted to impale his heart multiple times but it didn’t work. In the end they sawed off his head. - appears only at night. - horny. - frightened by the cross and prayer. - impaling was a major part of the story (but didn’t work). Funny enough, this was on the Croatian coast which often times was conquered and ruled over by Venice. So the local Croats adopted the Greco-Roman word strigoi rather than the Slavic word Vampir. For the Italians it meant sorcerer, but for Croatians was associated with Vampir.
When someone is very near their end, their breath and heart beat can become difficult to detect. That's why the Victorians put bells on the toes of the "dead" in case they weren't completely dead and could be dug up if movement (and the bell ringing) could be detected. It is in a similar state that some people are mistaken for zombies. Do I believe that Vampyres and Zombies exist in real life as they do in lore? I believe it is possible, just not likely.
Serbian legends is where these tales and legends come from, not Romania not somewhere in Europe but then at the time called Nothern Serbia. Culturaly almost all cultures have some form of creature that fits the term but the word itself was coined where I just mentioned.
It's always great to see how mythology around the world connects the dots with what some of us call history and others the next block busting movie on the Big Screen (now streaming). Thank you for you endeavor to put facts and opinions out there without discrimination. I grew up on an island where myth was true, or imagination became reality. We had a creature called the Soucouyant, it was a cross between a vampire and a Banshee. Its main purpose was to seek revenge for a wrong, it would not stop, but if it turns out the call of the Soucouyant was un-just the sender would then become the target. The stories for some were history or family antidotes for others. Thanks again, truly enjoyable.
How many of us have a 'friend' that every time we meet with them or invite them in for coffee and after they've left, we feel exhausted and drained of energy? The reason is simply that they are vampires, most of them don't realise it but that is what they are.
If you're going to talk about this particular Vampyre, then use correct terminology, please. Otherwise it confuses the others. The proper term is "Psychic Vampyre". Although, there is truth in what you speak. There are MANY, not even knowing they are one.
I usually don't like to listen to American accents juust because thhey tend to bee super hype but this guy is one them Americans who have the voice for this stuff.. 1st time watcher.. Will be subscribing thanks for thhe great video bro
Fortress of lugh, are you at all interested in doing a video about the sources of Irish myth? Like their history, who collected them into a codex, etc.?
I like his content but it has taken a strange turn. He removed some of his best videos from years ago about ancient Celtic civilizations, spirituality and mythology, and now seems to value more what makes a channel popular rather than what his channel was originally about. Not blaming him, in fact his hard work deserves more recognition, but I kinda miss his older video formats and topics. It also felt more sincere. Of course this is just my personal opinion and observation as a long time subscriber.
@@roosebolton2063 You know that Celtic material is limited right? He's have to change content to other topics of mythology in order to keep making videos.
@@draoidh6479 Limited, but still tones to be covered, in archeology, mythology, ... Here for instance, a great video about Vampires, but a missed opportunity to talk about the Dearg Due, a vampire figure in Irish Folklore.
I think the reason old videos get deleted is because he ain’t too happy with the quality of them. Though I must say, I’ve also seen one or two videos that I liked get removed. There’s much more about Celts he could cover, but it might not be so wise if every stone was turned so soon.
Your title is so general I think 'I know, then like the undead; step by step the knowledge comes. It's one of those information videos where even if you do not give your undivided attention or your hopped up on sugar you will still absorb most if not all the depictions and information.
RE Blood Sacrifices: The food offerings make a lot of sence from a spiritual/animistic perspective. In animistic cultures, it is believed that all things have a "spiritual essence", including food. And when we make offerings of food to the dead (or other kinds of spirits) they consume the spiritual essence of the food. The offering made through the hole in the stone makes even more sense, as it is believed that circles or any kind of closed shapes are a portal into the spirit world.
✨I absolutely love your videos!!!!! I love your voice and all the research you do to make these! I also have to say, I love the way you put pics from Skyrim in your videos✨My favorite game✨
Actually in ancient Greek a Vampire/Vampyre was called Vrykolakas (this also includes Lamia, Empusa and Mormo), though funny enough in some Greek myths Selene (the original Greek goddess of the moon before Artemis) was known as the mother of Vrykolakas/Vampires, her love was considered the first Vampire in greeco/Roman(she was known as Luna as in Lunacy aka madness as well as the moon) mythology, her love Ambrogio is considered as the oldest and first Mortal depiction of Vrykolakas/Vampires (Empusa, Lamia and Mormo being more divine/unatural/non-mortal in nature)as in a mortal who becomes the undead and drinks blood, a creature of the night.
Luna because she is pale like the moon, hair like the moon and stands short... visitation in a dream. The flying dude has a cool laugh, I called him U R Real (Uriel) that wasn't a dream...
@@alexg.b.341 yeah, I grew up in Sicily where my father is from, it's funny cause we use both Vrykolakas and Vircolac to mess with tourists that visit. While Lycan in Greek is wolf while in Latin it's Lupus.
@@alexg.b.341 the Romanian version is actually vârcolac, but it's the same thing cause Romanian was at one point Roman until Rome fell in the 4th century, so there are similar words cause Romanian speaks a form of Latin.
I think with all great monsters stories the importance is the subtext, what does the monster represent, the same way Godzilla represents the atomic bomb, Frankenstein’s monster about regret in life, etc, what do they represent.
The concept of vampires was truly born in the Balkans, more specifically, from the territory of Serbia. Even in the 14th century, the Serbian tsar, Dušan, had to send armies to calm the waters in the villages caught in the frenzied fear of vampires. It is true that the word VAMPIR is the only Serbian word that is now used all over the world. It was first recorded in written documents from 1725, explaining how a certain Petar Blagojević had risen from the dead, somewhere near Požarevac. Allegedly, he killed a considerable number of people, including his own son. But the story does not end there;, a local priest decided to burn Petar’s body, but without much success! The fear of vampires then swept across the rest of Europe and reached its peak in the 18th century. After that period, vampires became quite popular, mostly in art forms. We are all familiar with Stoker’s “Dracula”, later on with many Hollywood films on the same topic, from “Interview with the Vampire” to “The Twilight Saga”. That only proves how time and space and the influence of different cultures have changed the perception of vampires - from the bloodthirsty Petar Blagojević to the sexual beast presented as Dracula, all the way to today’s romantic notions of great loves and eternal lives. The last noted case of a vampire was in Belgrade in 1923 - at 61 Bosanska Street. It is popularly known as the case of “The Belgrade Vampire” when a liturgy was held in order to scare him/her/it away. If you are still afraid of vampires, I strongly suggest something which Serbs have been practising for ages - a good dose of garlic! No more bedtime stories, it’s time for bed and sweet dreams!
Both my grandmothers were Transylvanian. On of them, lived all her life in a village was a sort of a "medicine women", knew a lot of herbs and all sorts of witcheries that she learned when she was young from the than old women of the village. My other grandmother was a teacher in her younger years mostly teaching in various villages in Transylvania. When I was a kid and came across the Dracula story I asked both of them what they knew, heard about it - like were there any traces of it in Transylvanian folklore? I also asked other elderly people Hungarian and Romanian .... Neither of them knew or heard anything that has got to do with any blood sucking creatures. No trace of it in the folklore. Although, (fun fact) there was something about the owl. I heard many times in the village after someone died that this or that heard the owl hoot on their porch the previous night. But it was just a regular owl :)... Fun fact nr2: all Vlad "Dracul" Tepes had to do with Transylvania is that he was imprisoned in the castle you are showing in the first 20 seconds of your video, the Vajdahunyad castle(HU), or Hunedoara Castle (RO). Fun Fact nr3: and I am sorry, I can not give you the title or the writer of the book, I remember it being a French writers book on the History of Romania. He/She found traces of "propaganda" being spread in the Vatican by the Hungarian king about Vlad being some sort of a creature. Fun Fact nr4: where Vlad got the Dracul name from? Well his father was a member of The Order of the Dragon. Dragon in Romanian is Drac...Dracul is 'the Dragon'... Vlad's father had that nickname because he was a member of this Order. Vlad probably inherited the fathers nickname...like the "little dragon". Even to this day -and I saw this in Romanian village life, too - one would inherit the fathers nickname - the nickname is behaving more like a family nick name... Fun Fact nr5: this is Bram Stokers mistake ... Dracula - if he is Vlad - could not have been a Transylvanian Lord.... There was no Romanian Nobility in Transylvania. Noblemen, aristocratic families in Transylvania were Hungarian. OK.... singing off :)
As a Romanian I want to ask .. WTF are you on about ? RO Dragon = EN Dragon (yes, it's literally the same word, just with a different pronounciation) RO Drac = EN Devil Also, what do you mean there was no romanian nobility in Transylvania ?! Just because Tansylvania was under Austro/Hungarian occupation doesn't mean there was no romanian nobility. "singing off" .. yeah, go sing at another table.
A middle age description of the personality disorder narcissism hence the reason they cannot: see their reflection, or ability to self reflect on their actions they are very real. just described in the vocabulary of the time
Although vampires were not known for being aristocratic in the original folklore, I guess there is no reason why an aristocrat _couldn't_ have become a vampire from a folkloric point of view.
love this video and your channel too of course... much Luck moving into our shared modern madness of plummeting intelligence while inversely the Real western world health crisis being this never before seen, thing that's blindsided all of our greatest, most gifted minds of right now, so completely some peeps on the inside with inside intelligence, have concluded we've already passed it's Rubicon and sadly we can do not very much but, await and watch how terrible catastrophic and beyond sad, looking towards the center of very real & ineffable evil.
I don't understand why we can't have a movie based on old vampire folklore instead of the endless teen dramas and dracula remakes over and over again
Because we aren't making the movies. Maybe someday
There is a Romanian movie called Strigoi that is based on the old lore.
@@JHKimbrell thanks I'll look it up!
ya although i like action vampire movies i would like to see a change in all the violance all the time,i did like the series what we do in the shadows although its abit to much satire for me but it was interesting to watch.
@@captain3169 I’ve seen The Strain. 🙂
I remember my girlfriend's grandmother kept a broom next to or hanging on all the doors in her house. When I asked her why she did it she said they were there in case a vampire comes in the night while she sleeps they have to stop and count all the bristles and by the time they finish the sun would come up and they would have to leave. She was dead serious in her belief of them.
What was her nationality ?
@@bradholliday7251 Romani
IS NOT A BROOM BUT BEATS IF ONE CHASING YOU YOU TROUW THE BEATS, HE CAN'T ADVANCE TILL HE NUMBERS THEM BY GATHER THEM, THE BROOM UPSIDE DOWN IS USE TO CHANGE THE BAD LUCK TO GOOD LUCK.*** THE ORACLE
@@clarionkissimmee6377 shnifty
The same is done with rice, beans, or anything small and kept in a numerous amount. Appalachian folklore has similar beliefs
I'm from Romania and in the country side it is still belived that the dead will come out at night as a Strigoi and they will eat you. 10 years ago my grandpa died and grandma paid the grave digger to put a stake through his heart so that he will not come back as a strigoi at night, i don't believe in any supernatural but i find it interesting that people even in this era still practice some of the old traditions
Edit: and i saw on the news that some people used a horse to see if there were any vampiers/strigoi in the cemetery, if the horse didn't walked over a grave it was marked as a strigoi's grave
All are fake
@@SyedAliQasimZaidi that's what they want you to believe! Vampires are everywhere! :) 🦇
Sounds like a great title for a horror movie: _"And They Will Eat You!"_
@@SyedAliQasimZaidi naw really???
LTH link*
Is it still true. In Romania there are still legends or has PERCAUTIONS so the dead will never come back to HAUNT OR ATTACK the LIVING?? UP to this day...and is there is any VAMPIRE STORIES still today there and in TRANSYLVANIA
If you are in Romania and ask them about Dracula you d BETTER do so in a respectful manner otherwise those people will be very angry with you because to them he was a great hero who kept the Turks out of THIER lands throughout at least part of his lifetime....
Sherry Glisson ~ Exactly rite . My mother’s ancestry ( both paternal & maternal ) came from Hungary. Her Fathers side from Veszprem & my mother was told that Vlad Tepes was not a vampire & that he was a hero due to fighting back the Turks . They seem him as a fierce warrior with honor & have statues of him ! Thanks
Just ask about "moroi/strigoi :)
He very much was , He fought against the powered to be.
The Count from Sesamie Street is more a vampire than those of Twilight
Right. Bcuz he's royalty. Counts are blue blood as are the elite. The real ones don't turn into bats.
Embrace both 🧛🏻
Very true lol.
Underrated
Don't forget Count Chocula
I recently spent a few weeks traveling through Transylvania and I visited the castle that inspired Bram Stoker's castle in the novel. I also visited the real Dracula's(Vlad Dracul) childhood home. Beautiful region, Transylvania.
How completely awesome,, I've only seen it thru actually old documentary.. wasn't the Castle destroyed,, the castle where he was, raised is beautiful, ...
Have you seen the modern I'll call it Docu drama, that actually Great,, tasteful, enter cut with narration with local historians, cheers from Southern California.
Just Vlad ... Dracul or Dracu means The Devil or Devil (Vlad the 3rd)
@@beforcial Dracul comes from the Romanian Draculesti, which is the noble house that his family belonged to. Nothing to do with the devil.
@@beforcialI had heard that "dracul" root is that of "dragon" which was the representation of his noble house as someon already told here in a comment.
@@emperomassinencambio...9941 Romanian here, "dracul" means "the devil" in modern Romanian and "drac" means devil. However, in old Romanian it also meant dragon, and "draculesti" means "of the dragon" and yes most likely comes from the knightly order the family belonged to.
Vlad was called Dracula because his father was known as Dracul, meaning devil or dragon. Dracula means son of the devil or son of the dragon.
That's correct bcuz the elite are serpent seeds from Cain's lineage = vampires! I'm actually allergic to them...
The reason why he has Dracul in the name was because he was part of a chivalrous order called the Order of The Dragon. Many noblemen through the middle ages were part of it.
I believe dracul was one of the fallen angels..
@@intelektifikation serpent seeds are vampires . . . the royal bloodlines are Cain's lineage
@@nickchavez720 mainly in Eastern Europe. King Sigismund of Hungary founded it as an omage to his wife's ancestor's Order of Saint George.
I have been researching dark entities/creatures in the occult and esoteric and I have decided to share some of my conclusions here for those who might be interested.
It seems that every werewolf is a vampire, but not every vampire is a werewolf. This is because in a occult context, a vampire is any being that feeds on the vital energy of the living, this entity being a dead spirit or a living person. Succubi, black magicians (dark mages who astral project and "fly" (strigoi) using their power to feed on others), ghouls (spirits obsessed with the vital energy released by dead bodies in graveyards) are all vampiric.
And werewolves, spirits whose astrospiritual body is deformed into a lupine shape over the course of either very intense connections with negative energy or long periods of time spent in limbo as a restless obsessed spirit, are also vampires, since they feed on the energy and emotions of the living.
The classical draculean vampire then, in this context could be considered a merge of several distinct negative entities, since nothing really makes it impossible for one individual to have all the characteristics of multiple entities. Dracula would be a black magician, capable of changing his astrospiritual body at will to that of a wolven human, shapeshifting, and also feasting on the vital energy of others, through astral projecting and commiting psychic attacks.
Even the capacity for people to be turned into vampires as described in the book is explainable, since an entity truly becomes vampiric when it grows addicted to the energy of others, once it has drained others so frequently that it no longer knows how to produce its own energy, needing to feed on victims to survive. This is how a victim may also become a vampire, after being drained extensively of their own individual energy, the victim might start draining others to survive, since its own production is insufficient, slowly becoming another attacker.
it seems the Western world today is run by vampiric govts. feeding on our económic and other energíes! 😉😂
Sounds like vampires in the occult/esoteric spheres is fanfiction, lol.
I think that you've watched "Underworld" too many times...
NO Werewolf is a Vampire, and NO Vampire is Werewolf. In fact, they are enemies.
Here is why:
Vampires come from the descendants of the sons of Lilith. The Sons (and daughters) of Lilith were called Nachsramon (where "ch" is pronounced as in Loch Ness).
Their Descendants are called Bachomech ( where "ch" is pronounced as in Loch Ness). And the descendants of them are the Vampires.
Werewolves come from one of the abomination species of the Nephilim known as Malchech. (The second "ch" pronounced as in Loch Ness). "god" Anubis was one of them.
They were actually "manufactured" by the original Nephilim giants in order to fight the Nachsramon (Sons of Lilith) and Bachomech ( "grandchilds" of Lilith).
Werewolves, as long-long descendants of the manufactured warriors of the Nephilim, have also inherited the "natural" hatred towards the sons of Lilith and their descendants.
This hatred was "injected" at the very first moment that Malchech were created, in order to make sure that they stayed enemies and didn't ally themselves (later on) with Bachomech, against their creators, the Giants (the original Nephilim).
Can you name me some really good books about this topic ?? Thank you
@@othmanemarmar5154 only one I can think of now is psychic self defense by dion fortune. There are other ones I would recommend but they are in portuguese and have no translation. But this one that I mentioned defines a psychic vampire very well.
I'm a person who's majoring in Russian, and takes Slavic mythology and folklore. Word vampire comes from South Slavic mythology. In Serbian vampire is vampir/вампир. Recently I read about it and found out that vampires (in South Slavic mythology) can come from people who were born out side of marriage. Also as you said we still kept tradition of bringing food to dead, pray for 40 days because South Slavs would do so to make sure that their soul would be at peace and they wouldn't turn into a vampire. If people would go missing or were found dead they'd dig up dead and stab their heart with wood. It's also believed that the child must get baptized because if not they might become vampires. My English is not that good, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much, your English is perfect. I believe in such creatures, and at least psychic vampirism is widely spread. I remember reading somewhere, but I can't remember where there was also a link between "born vampires" (those born with the "condition") and interbreeding.
Obviously, Christianity had a huge hand in perverting these facts, I see no condemnation of interbreeding among the Aristocracy.
Cheers.
I guess that's why Catholic have there babies baptist
Incestuous origins. Family affair indeed conflated with blood rites and superstition. What could be worse than dead in life. Rotting and stinking of decay while you walk about. Possibly some autoimmune disorder caused by inbreeding. Who knows - the shadow knows. 🤷🏽♀️
Katarina . In old Polish mythology we have the same stories and myths. In Polish name is Wampir or Wapierz exactly like Serbian.
Aj katerina ne seri!
There is an Irish legend about a cruel vampire called Abhartach that seems to have been a big inspiration for Bram Stoker. There was a manuscript about it titled "Abhartach, Dreach-fhoula" in Trinity College at the time bram attended There. Dreach fhoula is Irish, Pronounced Droch-ula. It means bad or tainted blood. Balor Otherworld channel has video coming out about it
The blue bloods are vampires.
I heard about this, but there is a lot of questionable sources about it and personally I don't think it is to be trusted. Yet even if the name was inspired, it is very clear that his ideas are taken from reports of vampires in Romania and Eastern Europe generally.
@@FortressofLugh if you think the Irish sources are questionable I don't understand how the European sources can be considered any more credible? Bram wrote himself "DRACULA in Wallachian language means DEVIL". then he alludes to a Dracula who crossed the danube to attack the turks. He never mentioned Vlad the Impaler in any writings.
Transylvania was a common setting for gothic stories in the 19th century so I think you are over emphasising the relevance.
Finally, brams publisher made him remove the first 101 pages from the dracula manuscript because they felt it was too soon since the Jack the Ripper murders so they didn't want to make the story feel too close to home. That's why the story opens with the lawyer travelling to draculas mansion.
Theres also an Irish legend about a woman who was abused by her husband, killed by him, and before her body had even cooled on the earth had remarried. She came back from the dead, killed everyone in the house and drained of them their blood as revenge for the abuse she suffered.
I'm deeply skeptical about this. It strikes me strongly as somebody trying to make "Dracula" sound Irish Gaelic. "Droch-ula" is quite obvious meant to sound like "Dracula" and it is beyond unlikely to me there is an Irish Gaelic word for blood that just happens to sound like "Dracula".
"Dreach" means "face, countenance" and I don't find "fhoula" in my Modern Irish Gaelic dictionary. "Fuil" means "blood" but its pronunciation is closer "fh-uIL"
Also, Abhartach was a dwarf, though the tale seems reminiscent in some ways of some vampire tales.
One of the most important points about the vampire myth you covered is that vampirism is a family affair. In the little known novella by Alexis Tolstoy "The Family of the Vurdalak" you have the afflicted grandfather coming back after killing a Turkish vampire who has been murdering his shepherds. He acts strangely and refuses food, but starts to kill and transform his family into vampires one by one. Nineteenth Century writers tend to make the vampire a noble, but I think that grew out of the idea that titled people oppressed the peasants on their land. It was like a perverted droit du seigneur act. The historical Dracula's usual victims were the common people especially the Transylvanian Saxons who wrote the worst stories about him.
Very true, the Transylvanian Saxons (German settlers who came there in the 12th/13th century) were often rich and successful...and a minority. There were plenty of pogroms against them (what happened to jews in Europe on a regular basis for similar reasons), especially cruel ones by Vlad the Impaler. They had no love for him.
Like the old world families. Long-livers.
Wrong
Vampire means eating only liquid milk, juice, coconut juice sugarcane juice is extremely good . Advantage of this life style is skipping toilet. being human and skipping toilet it's great . thing to learn from vampire. Vampire is way of living . People are teaching you wrong nobody wants someone other be better then themselves.
The name vampire became so popular and still alive needy people can learn . Sometimes eating hard thing meat rice or banana is good.
Do you want to know about mermaid ?
Depends on the culture, Celtic Vampiric creatures are different
Origin of Vampire is the Rebbis Virus in 18th century in Hungary🤧Where ppl were coming out in night and started biting others..😢
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Yes vampires are werewolves. Or rather werewolves are vampires who have no control over their bloodlust while vampires are far more refined. This is also why Dracula is able to transform into a werewolf while also being a vampire.
werewolves come from the legends of the kor yos and ulfhednar ....superhuman and unstoppable endowed with the blood of the first brood
Werewolves are cooler tho
@@w0ckhardt I definitely agree
Neither really exist. So they are whatever you want them to be, or say they are.
@@daemonthorn5888 your opinion means less than nothing to me. i can say you dont exist and write you off as a youtube bot. any evidence you attempt to present to me i'll write off and ignore. you'd do the same to me if i tried proving these things actually exist. it's not that hard being a dismissive feeb.
Pre dracula, there was, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the penny dreadful comics, in these there was a story of Varny the vampire. A more comical aspect of the vampire. It was reading those that gave Bram stoker his initial inspiration to bring the vampire legend into a more hostile and mysterious creature that was Dracula.
Bram Stocker was also involved with Crowley. Known as the evilest man alive! I’m sure he knew a lot of dark things we will never.
Lord reuthven 🤔
That was an excellent presentation. Thanks Fortress of Lugh
One really important thing to understand about vampires is that Japanese as well as many ancient cultures around the world has some version of vampires.
In many Asian cultures vampires are very similar to those mentioned in this video well before any European countries had been in contact with these cultures. As are zombies, found in many ancient cultures well before European countries started to migrate to these countries/continent.
So? Why is this important to understand, I seem to have missed the point
So... what's important ?
@@lukasblast3699 exactly…
@@existentialnihil Seems a legend stems from some truth. Or human fear.
yea Vampires are present in most ancient cultures around the world
First off, it's nice that you mention the missconception that Count Dracula was directly based off of Vlad the impaler.
Second, I would like to add something, regarding what you mentioned of vampires that appear bloated from all the blood in them. When a human body decomposes, at some point the stomach will start to swell as it gets filled with gasses produced by the decay. Around the same time, blood starts leaking out of orifices, like the mouth.
Put together, it's easy to see how a superstitious person who knows nothing about this, would conclude that the corpse was so full of blood they got bloated from it, and would assumed the corpse had come back to (un)life and sucked it out of someone. Indeed, that is exactly what we see in documented cases of vampirism.
It also helps explaining why the idea of corpses coming back to life to drink the blood of the living, is a concept we see in so many cultures all over the world.
Vampires from different parts of the world over thousands of years. Giving us these stories is fabulous and very intriguing! The Countess and Dracula haha we know Vladimir was a great warrior using the only fear tactics he could really mess with his enemies minds! Love it!
But back to this story so wonderful! Thank You!
@Cypher - It´s also in Wikipedia his name written as Vlad III Dracul... Why did the video owner called him for Vladimir??
I don´t understand either
As someone who has read extensively about vampire legends, I have to say your video gave a fresh and fascinating take on the subject. Well done Sir, you've earned one more subscriber.
My wife's from Puerto Rico where they call Barn Owls - Lechuza. Lechuza is also the name for a type of shapeshifting witch in some Spanish speaking countries. Crazy how some folkloric traditions are so similar half a world away.
Lehuza means (in Romanian language) the state of a women after she gave birth and became weak after losing a lot of blood
It always seemed to me that the origins of vampirism come from a disease like Porphyria. This is a rare genetic blood disease caused by a violation of hemoglobin biosynthesis. The symptoms of Porphyria are similar to the vampire weaknesses, for example. 1) Fear of the sun - there is such a form of Porphyria as Gunther's Disease, caused by metabolic disorders and accumulation of UROPORPHYRINOGEN-III in the blood. Patients with this disease have very poor photosensitivity. Upon contact with the lights, their skin becomes covered with burns, blisters, purulent ulcers and subcutaneous abscesses. 2) Thirst for blood - genetic failures and the reproduction of incorrect hemoglobin lead to the development of hemolytic anemia, increased bleeding. Due to chronic hemoglobin deficiency, the patient may experience oxygen starvation and a need for blood. 3) Dislike of garlic - this myth did not appear by chance. Patients do not tolerate garlic because of its chemical composition. The sulfonic acid of garlic causes severe pain from the damage caused by the disease.
I read up on dis yrs ago finally sum1 2 relate 2 I also find out da king n queen of England is related 2 da real Dracula n da queen has a university dat only studies dis disease Porphyria 💯
I read a book similar to this. Great book
No, it's a mistake to view it from a modern lens although it may contribute to it. Gotta understand the pagan beliefs of the people who perpetuated beliefs in vampiric spirits and living corpses. For example, blood sacrifices and libations offered at pagan sites to the dead and beings associated with the dead. Also garlic overpowers the stench of a corpse and the heat of the sun quickens the process of decomposition. It's too rare and insignificant to be the primary explanation such a well-preserved and common folk belief.
those describe the modern caricature of vampire, not what's discussed in this video or mythology.
@@adultdeleted exactly, and if it is rare it's unlikely to have enough occurances to inspire it.
Hi Fortress of Lugh. I've been listening to your videos over the last few days. I think you have an unprecedented talent in the content you've covered. Many thanks for the video's. My best
I think some clarification is needed for this video :
1. The term Vampire comes from Serbian "Vampir", and it was popularized in the Austro-Hungarian press during 17th and 18th century, since some Serbs (who lived in AH border regions with Turkey, today's northern Serbia) demanded from the AH authorities that some of their dead be excavated, impaled and cremated since they appeared to their family members during night.
2. Indo-Europeans worshiped their dead (they even buried in house), however over time the notion will change and the sickness (plague) was directly correlated with the dead. Giving the dead offerings in form of food and drink was mandatory not only for getting their protection but also for them to stay in graves and not roam around causing trouble. The offerings would be be provided on the day of the funeral, after 7 days, 40 days, six months, a year, and then every year. The dead are always thirsty so even when having a celebration of any sorts or a holiday it is required to mention them and sip a bit of water or wine (wine is an ancient substitute for blood!) on the floor or doorstep. Apart from not providing them with offerings the dead can rise if they're not buried according to specified rituals. For example, it is strictly forbiden for anyone to walk over the person's grave because it can make him a vampire. Horses, cats, and dogs can do the same thing. Matter of fact, a black horse was used in Serbia to find which dead person was a vampire by walking the horse around a cemetery. If the horse refused to walk over a certain grave, that was the proof that the grave in question had a vampire in it. The horses were considered to be demonic in nature so throughout indo-european ethos. For Serbs and Croats a wolf, werewolf and vampire are synonymous. Although a wolf can also be a demon that can be good and used to fight and detract other demons, that's why wolf is the main totemic animal within the Serbs and why the name Vuk (Wolf) is so common.
3. One needs to understand that the ancient Indo-Europeans rarely ever called anything otherworldly (either a god or a demon, if there's any actual difference between them) by its real name, but in euphemisms since knowing and saying its name had consequences. Saying God's name was forbiden because strangers can learn it and start venerating him, stealing it from you and depriving you of any protection (until this day it is still unknown who was the main deity of the City of Rome, not even his or her gender).
If it was a demon, you definitely wouldn't say his name because he might actually come and that could only mean trouble.
A witch is also a demon of woman who had risen from the dead and it is probably associated with the big nose old woman (Baba Yaga, Baba Roga, la Befana) or a woman with a beak (Strega) and although in most cases it can be evil it doesn't mean that it is. It's all context related.
Petar Blagojevic
_"until this day it is still unknown who was the main deity of the City of Rome, not even his or her gender."_
Oh, that's easy if you listen to the pope you don't need Latin to hear how often he speaks of Lucifer who is same as Baphomet that is a mix of genders or androgenous.
Thanks for the info.
@Zanimations I believe I was referring to whomever the pope worships who he calls Lucifer who is a spiritual androgynous being same as Satan, often represented by Baphomet a part goat part man androgynous beast. Mostly my sources are Holy Scripture and listening to video of the pope speak but also observations of the general decor depicted in images of Vatican and Rome architecture common knowledge mostly.
That's some comment.
Dude your voice is so fitting for your presentation style just awesome
I live in a small village and my house is situated near forest..we don’t have to scared of animals Bcuz there aren’t any..but I watch bats going in the forest every evening like when it’s dark, and little bit of moonlight ..it’s so fascinating and scary at the same time to see them in the sky when it’s full moon..and I can’t even describe those feelings when I see them roaming in the sky and it feels like they are roaming around the moon..
That would be an awesome sight to see
God, I love your videos. When it comes to documentaries, your work is top-tier.
How do you know that? If you don't look into any of the information yourself, literally, anyone could make a video that you consider a documentary, and you'd consider it all true. That's the problem with UA-cam. Anyone can make a UA-cam video. And if the video is well done, then people tend to blindly believe what it says. Without vetting any of the info in it. I'm not saying that is an issue with this video. I'm just drawing attention to the fact that you call these videos, "documentaries" and say that they are, "top-tier", when you really have no idea if anything being said is true or correct at all. I'm not trying to be rude, or what have you, only being bluntly truthful.
This is one of my favorite UA-cam channels - grade A content.
The visuals, the voice, the background music and topics 👌
Criminally underrated channel.
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Another very interesting vampire myth from pre-Medieval is the Celtic story of the Abhartach
Carmilla is a great vampire story with old vampire lore.
Okay lemme guess . . . bcuz every real vampire is a royalty, or blue blood. _Plus,_ every blue blooded vampire shape shifts. One more thing is, they are blood drinkers. Qualities required.
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@Mack Edwards Dead lives DO matter!
It also predates Stoker's work by 26 years
@@AverageAmerican the whole of the West has real Vampires right now in politics.
Just a comment, Vlad Draculea was not a Vladimir, but a Vladislaus... I've seen this on a reproduction of a book about him from the 1500s.
Thanks. Honestly I didn't look into that, I just assumed it was.
@@FortressofLugh One is latanized is all
@@FortressofLugh no ,is easy to make videos and misinform others...a very low and weak video in real info ,too superficial,wish Vlad was for real what they lied about him,and to come after all the liars and inventors of this bs stories,and impale them for real 😂,😫such lack of respect of making a video where the real history is over looked ...Huge DISLIKE!😖
@@ugnulanila Why don't you make a video with the correct history then instead of demeaning someone who did their best.
@@ugnulanila He didn't say it was the real history of Vlad the Impaler and there was a propaganda campaign against him in his time and Bram Stroker did use that for Dracula.
But how much hard truth do you expect in a video about "vampires" released in October anyways?
Your work is a cut above many other channels of this kind. Excellent work, thank you.
" *REAL* History"...
**grabs garlic with trembling hands**
“I think I should warn you all, when a vampire bites it, it's never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them”. Edgar Frog. The Lost Boys (1987).
The Word Vampire came from the Serbian Vampir.
Which comes from another word Povampiren which now means turned into a Vampire but in the past it meant taken over by evil spirits or just evil. The time Vampires started to spread all over the world was when a group of Franch man whent through Serbia seeing Serbs dig up there dead to stake them, sealing coffins, using garlic... They whent back to France where they spread Vampyre from the Serbian Vampir and that evolved into Vampire in English.
Wampyre. It is German.
The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian вампир (vampir).
The word vampire (as vampyre) first appeared in English in 1732, in news reports about vampire "epidemics" in eastern Europe.[14][a] After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and "killing vampires".[16] These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity.
Wrong it’s Albanian it literally translates to “to cause pain” or “to numb with pain” or to “bite/or drink/suck with teeth”
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it. 'Chthonic'... such a great word.
Fascinating, thank you! I've always been puzzled by this fear of death, fear of the dark, fear of the dead, which "seems" to arise with Monotheism, because the first cities, in Summer, they would bury their family members, right under the floors of their homes! Their mostly one room mud brick homes, buried their family, no fear, need to be close to them? What? Not sure if they did the stone thing...
Death and the fear of the dark are quiet self explanatory since most primates are quite defenseless during the night against nocturnal predators. Most scientist believe it is an evolutionary/survival practice that our ancestors realized the need to remove dead bodies, trash and feces away from where one live. Despite the ignorance of the concept of desease and parasites, they know that they must do certain procedures to keep them away. Whether mummifying or doing special graves to keep them. Of couse geology and geography also plays on the ritual they do.
Monotheism got nothing whatsoever to do with it, since the practice already being done before that from different countries and different cultures are doing something similar whether Africa or Ancient China, India, SouthEast Asia or Mesoamerica. Similarly, the superstition of the un-dead also seems universal, with similar myths and legends rising independently from each other.
They had many texts of spells and curses against all sorts of undead and demons
Great Googa Moogas! A serious discussion about vampires that isn't interested in glamorizing the true nature of these creatures. As a fellow who grew up watching Lugosi and Christopher Lee, I can only be grateful that you went to the trouble of putting this video together. Your team rocks.
You sould research about Petar Blagojević, Arnaut Pavle (Paul) and Jure Grando - well known Balkan vampires. Vampire comes from Slavic mythology and folklore, while the word itself come from Serbian (Balkan Slavic) VAMPIR.
То су српски вампири...не балкански.
But what does it mean?
@@egzonshabi8738 it means the ONE WHO DIDNT RECIEVE PROPER FUNERAL (cremation, since pagan Slavs practised cremations of dead people).
So.. what you are saying is that the word "Vampir", which is said to derive from the word "Upyr", means "one who didn't receive a proper burial". But what about the word itself from a linguistic perspective? What does it mean?
@@egzonshabi8738 Russian, Polish, Czech,...Upyr is also related to cremation ritual...the lack of it that is.
Bran stokers Dracula is one of my top 5 horror books. Amazing and so ahead of it's time the book is like a found footage movie reading out of diaries and correspondence.
I love this video. Very informative. You sir deserve more views for this.
A lot of effort and zero facts went into this video. Vampire is a Serbian word. This fact is easy to verify. The charlatan got too many views for the misinformation he presented in the video.
Have you ever thought about doing a video on the numerous Celtic branches that there isn’t a lot of information on like the tartessians, ligurians/Corsi, and Galatians?
He has one about Tartessians, but it would be good if there were some videos about minor Celtic nations, that’s not even mentioning others like Cornwall and Brittany.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 it would be even better for those ‘minor’ nations to consider themselves not small but part of the bigger Celtic demographic of the Brythonic, or simply British.
It was always my knowledge and explained to me long ago that Vampir is of Serbian origin. We say Vampir. I was raised knowing this is a Serbian word. Interesting how you found it was proto-slavic.
All of our languages come from the same source so there is a lot of similarities and borrowed words.
Srbi su pravi vampiri bre
Its Bulgarian word like the rest of your language
Changing into wolves and bats. A Werepire.
a Vampwolf
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"He became something new. A Werepyre… sharing both the strengths and weaknesses of both nightbreeds."
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This must be one of the best Vampire's investigation I've listen, Awesome!!! 😊👌
Great work, so many programs seem to furrow the same old ground. I assume you have read Montague Summers work on both vampires and werewolves? I read parts of them, but the guy was utterly insane and liked to change language of the text, halfway through a chapter..
Lol Montague Summers deserves a video of his own.
No. Vamprie(Vampir) it's a Serbian word. First Vamprie ever was from Serbia,and it's called Petar Blagojević. Even the Austrian newspaper's in 17th century was written about him.
Wish we had time machines to witness
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What does the word Vampir mean in Serbian?
@@egzonshabi8738 It's means Vampire (living dead who sucked blood)
From a linguistic perspective bro. I know that "Pir" comes from "pi" which has a connection to drinking. But what about the rest?
As an Albanian in Albania we pronounce Vampire as Dhëmbëpirë which sounds like the Slavic pronunciation of Vampir. All my life I was told that Vampire is of Albanian origin & that Slavic people borrowed the word from us (Albanians) and corrupted its pronunciation. Now here is the twist with the Albanian pronunciation of the Dhëmbëpirë - it consists of two Albanian words Dhëmbë & Pirë. Dhëmbë in Albanian means Teeth & Pirë means Drink. So loosely translated into English the Albanian version of DhëmbëPirë means 'TeethDrinker" in other words the one who drinks blood with his teeth after biting & punctuated the skin of his victim with his teeth.
Albanians Are manufactured Nation..you have Arbanas,srbs greeks and sucilians..name was given by italiams to claim or surrpress Serbia ..so basicly you have serb words in do call Albanian language ..which was Split in two dialects,but shqip ptevailed cause mass refugee of saip into Serbia during communism and huge baby boom where communist paid for children..
Vampires comes from Bulgaria not Albania or Romania or Serbia
I found this channel today & already watched 3 videos 💜 it is quite good how detailed information is given in this video
Great video, loved the last part too.
Man hasnt really changed all that much
The vampire word, mythology, and panic spread through the Austrian Empire then into Western Europe because of a Vampire panic in Serbia. At the time northern Serbia was under Austrian rule and there was a particular vampire panic in some town or village that spread so fast it caught the attention of even the royals who sent people to investigate.
I agree. I had a friend who was Romanian and he looked just like Vlad Dracule. Unfortunately he passed away over a year ago due to Covid.
Or did he? DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNN
Show's you how even vampires like Dracula aren't immune from the clotshot
Just found this video and I am a folklore nut being part Duch and German. I am now a subscriber of this channel. Loved the video and I am going to see what other videos you have done.
In the modern era, Vampirism has become a religion all of it's own.
... banking?
ya they are even like a club or clubs across the world,i remember years ago seeing a documentry of don henry he is a guy that has some sort of blood issue and occasionaly needs fresh blood,he is a head figuur or at the time was of a vampire assosiation.
Love your channel and your voice. I also like how you have short and long form videos, thank you!
Great presentation of historically accurate information. Am i the only fan of Vampire the Masquerade, that while watching this, was naming the clans that "caused" those historical rumors, and what disciplines they used in reference to the powers of a vampire? lol
Nope I'm guessing u know of heirs of the night lol
@@KheKheGanja I actually did not know that was a thing. Is it any good?
The Gangrel and Nosferatu were really out hear destroying the Masquerade back in the day, smh.
@@smuggrog9821 Cappadocians really doing it too, with the whole walking corpse rottin to the bone. Gqngrel are really to blame for the Strigoi and Vulkolak meaning of owl and wolf Transformations which is really cool
April 2023 here. Kevin that was absolutely stunning thank you 🌹🌹🌹
The germanic origin for werwolf doesn’t relate to wolf pelt, as you described. It is from the word wer or man and, well, wolf. So it quite literally means “man wolf”. Though, you are correct about the concept of the werewolf is of Indo-European or possibly Proto Indo European in origin. There are some ideas that it was a way to discuss the PTSD experienced by the ancient warrior class as there are connections to the “wolf” as the warriors of the time.
Very good and interesting video! I also like the nods to the Castlevania games, the pictures you used for some of the sample images. 🦇
The history or research of the "Sin Eaters" would be interesting, it is hard to find information on them as i believe they may be connected to other rituals but not always called sin eaters.
Wow! You're theory is fascinating! I'm a big fan of spooky stories of any kind and know tons about vampires. My Bohemian heritage is full of all kinds of stories about things like vampires and more. You had info in this video that was new to me! Bravo! Keep posting! 😁
John Polidor was friends with Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein and the controversial Lord Byron
One of the earliest Vampire folk tales was from Croatia, and the vampire in question carried a lot of the tropes that would much later on be seen in works like Dracula.
He was a villager named Jure Grando who died but at night the villagers would see him walking about. He lusted and attempted to sexually assault women.
The locals could ward him off with prayers and Christian symbols. They attempted to impale his heart multiple times but it didn’t work. In the end they sawed off his head.
- appears only at night.
- horny.
- frightened by the cross and prayer.
- impaling was a major part of the story (but didn’t work).
Funny enough, this was on the Croatian coast which often times was conquered and ruled over by Venice. So the local Croats adopted the Greco-Roman word strigoi rather than the Slavic word Vampir.
For the Italians it meant sorcerer, but for Croatians was associated with Vampir.
An epilespy warning would have been nice bud or a less strobing effect. Otherwise loved the video.
Fantastic video, loved the hypothesis! Haven’t heard that before, and is making me rethink vampires as a whole.
When someone is very near their end, their breath and heart beat can become difficult to detect.
That's why the Victorians put bells on the toes of the "dead" in case they weren't completely dead and could be dug up if movement (and the bell ringing) could be detected. It is in a similar state that some people are mistaken for zombies.
Do I believe that Vampyres and Zombies exist in real life as they do in lore? I believe it is possible, just not likely.
Liked and subbed, a perfect distraction. Thank you
Serbian legends is where these tales and legends come from, not Romania not somewhere in Europe but then at the time called Nothern Serbia. Culturaly almost all cultures have some form of creature that fits the term but the word itself was coined where I just mentioned.
It's always great to see how mythology around the world connects the dots with what some of us call history and others the next block busting movie on the Big Screen (now streaming). Thank you for you endeavor to put facts and opinions out there without discrimination. I grew up on an island where myth was true, or imagination became reality. We had a creature called the Soucouyant, it was a cross between a vampire and a Banshee. Its main purpose was to seek revenge for a wrong, it would not stop, but if it turns out the call of the Soucouyant was un-just the sender would then become the target. The stories for some were history or family antidotes for others. Thanks again, truly enjoyable.
How many of us have a 'friend' that every time we meet with them or invite them in for coffee and after they've left, we feel exhausted and drained of energy? The reason is simply that they are vampires, most of them don't realise it but that is what they are.
We all are. You can either learn to harvest or be extracted
Could be the caffeine wearing off.
@@therealivydawg More likely the weed we smoked.
If you're going to talk about this particular Vampyre, then use correct terminology, please. Otherwise it confuses the others. The proper term is "Psychic Vampyre".
Although, there is truth in what you speak. There are MANY, not even knowing they are one.
Yeah….sure
I usually don't like to listen to American accents juust because thhey tend to bee super hype but this guy is one them Americans who have the voice for this stuff.. 1st time watcher.. Will be subscribing thanks for thhe great video bro
Exceptional, as always, good bean! It's phenomenal that each video is just as fascinating and well scripted as the last. :) Take care!
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This is one of the best videos on the subject of vampires I’ve ever seen. I’m also curious about the Chinese vampire myths, the Chiang-shih.
Fortress of lugh, are you at all interested in doing a video about the sources of Irish myth? Like their history, who collected them into a codex, etc.?
I like his content but it has taken a strange turn. He removed some of his best videos from years ago about ancient Celtic civilizations, spirituality and mythology, and now seems to value more what makes a channel popular rather than what his channel was originally about. Not blaming him, in fact his hard work deserves more recognition, but I kinda miss his older video formats and topics. It also felt more sincere. Of course this is just my personal opinion and observation as a long time subscriber.
@@roosebolton2063 You know that Celtic material is limited right? He's have to change content to other topics of mythology in order to keep making videos.
@@draoidh6479 Limited, but still tones to be covered, in archeology, mythology, ... Here for instance, a great video about Vampires, but a missed opportunity to talk about the Dearg Due, a vampire figure in Irish Folklore.
I think the reason old videos get deleted is because he ain’t too happy with the quality of them. Though I must say, I’ve also seen one or two videos that I liked get removed. There’s much more about Celts he could cover, but it might not be so wise if every stone was turned so soon.
Yes would love that. I just listened to I forget the guys name ( irish guy) who who spoke on this very topic.
Damn, you know you've become a youtuber when you watch a vid like this and find yourself freaking out over the b-roll... good job my friend!
Your title is so general I think 'I know, then like the undead; step by step the knowledge comes. It's one of those information videos where even if you do not give your undivided attention or your hopped up on sugar you will still absorb most if not all the depictions and information.
RE Blood Sacrifices: The food offerings make a lot of sence from a spiritual/animistic perspective. In animistic cultures, it is believed that all things have a "spiritual essence", including food. And when we make offerings of food to the dead (or other kinds of spirits) they consume the spiritual essence of the food.
The offering made through the hole in the stone makes even more sense, as it is believed that circles or any kind of closed shapes are a portal into the spirit world.
fortress of Lugh makes a well-reaseacrched topics very interesting
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Excellent conclusion about "rationality"
Outstanding video thanks 😊 👍
Nice video 👍 an interesting vampire story is that of the croglin vampire in Cumbria. A story to suit the times or an older folk memory?
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Actually in ancient Greek a Vampire/Vampyre was called Vrykolakas (this also includes Lamia, Empusa and Mormo), though funny enough in some Greek myths Selene (the original Greek goddess of the moon before Artemis) was known as the mother of Vrykolakas/Vampires, her love was considered the first Vampire in greeco/Roman(she was known as Luna as in Lunacy aka madness as well as the moon) mythology, her love Ambrogio is considered as the oldest and first Mortal depiction of Vrykolakas/Vampires (Empusa, Lamia and Mormo being more divine/unatural/non-mortal in nature)as in a mortal who becomes the undead and drinks blood, a creature of the night.
Luna because she is pale like the moon, hair like the moon and stands short... visitation in a dream. The flying dude has a cool laugh, I called him U R Real (Uriel) that wasn't a dream...
Vrikolakas as you say is very similar (in the pronounciacion) to the romanian word vircolac that means werewolf
@@alexg.b.341 yeah, I grew up in Sicily where my father is from, it's funny cause we use both Vrykolakas and Vircolac to mess with tourists that visit.
While Lycan in Greek is wolf while in Latin it's Lupus.
@@alexg.b.341 the Romanian version is actually vârcolac, but it's the same thing cause Romanian was at one point Roman until Rome fell in the 4th century, so there are similar words cause Romanian speaks a form of Latin.
I think with all great monsters stories the importance is the subtext, what does the monster represent, the same way Godzilla represents the atomic bomb, Frankenstein’s monster about regret in life, etc, what do they represent.
The concept of vampires was truly born in the Balkans, more specifically, from the territory of Serbia. Even in the 14th century, the Serbian tsar, Dušan, had to send armies to calm the waters in the villages caught in the frenzied fear of vampires.
It is true that the word VAMPIR is the only Serbian word that is now used all over the world. It was first recorded in written documents from 1725, explaining how a certain Petar Blagojević had risen from the dead, somewhere near Požarevac. Allegedly, he killed a considerable number of people, including his own son. But the story does not end there;, a local priest decided to burn Petar’s body, but without much success!
The fear of vampires then swept across the rest of Europe and reached its peak in the 18th century.
After that period, vampires became quite popular, mostly in art forms. We are all familiar with Stoker’s “Dracula”, later on with many Hollywood films on the same topic, from “Interview with the Vampire” to “The Twilight Saga”. That only proves how time and space and the influence of different cultures have changed the perception of vampires - from the bloodthirsty Petar Blagojević to the sexual beast presented as Dracula, all the way to today’s romantic notions of great loves and eternal lives.
The last noted case of a vampire was in Belgrade in 1923 - at 61 Bosanska Street. It is popularly known as the case of “The Belgrade Vampire” when a liturgy was held in order to scare him/her/it away.
If you are still afraid of vampires, I strongly suggest something which Serbs have been practising for ages - a good dose of garlic!
No more bedtime stories, it’s time for bed and sweet dreams!
Great video, very insightful 👍👍
I buried my mom with food - marinated artichokes and a 6-pack of Pepsi, because she was diabetic and had renal failure. She enjoyed both in life.
Great job on this video. Very interesting information. I can tell a lot of time and research went into making this.
Both my grandmothers were Transylvanian.
On of them, lived all her life in a village was a sort of a "medicine women", knew a lot of herbs and all sorts of witcheries that she learned when she was young from the than old women of the village.
My other grandmother was a teacher in her younger years mostly teaching in various villages in Transylvania. When I was a kid and came across the Dracula story I asked both of them what they knew, heard about it - like were there any traces of it in Transylvanian folklore? I also asked other elderly people Hungarian and Romanian ....
Neither of them knew or heard anything that has got to do with any blood sucking creatures. No trace of it in the folklore.
Although, (fun fact) there was something about the owl. I heard many times in the village after someone died that this or that heard the owl hoot on their porch the previous night. But it was just a regular owl :)...
Fun fact nr2: all Vlad "Dracul" Tepes had to do with Transylvania is that he was imprisoned in the castle you are showing in the first 20 seconds of your video, the Vajdahunyad castle(HU), or Hunedoara Castle (RO).
Fun Fact nr3: and I am sorry, I can not give you the title or the writer of the book, I remember it being a French writers book on the History of Romania. He/She found traces of "propaganda" being spread in the Vatican by the Hungarian king about Vlad being some sort of a creature.
Fun Fact nr4: where Vlad got the Dracul name from? Well his father was a member of The Order of the Dragon. Dragon in Romanian is Drac...Dracul is 'the Dragon'... Vlad's father had that nickname because he was a member of this Order. Vlad probably inherited the fathers nickname...like the "little dragon". Even to this day -and I saw this in Romanian village life, too - one would inherit the fathers nickname - the nickname is behaving more like a family nick name...
Fun Fact nr5: this is Bram Stokers mistake ... Dracula - if he is Vlad - could not have been a Transylvanian Lord.... There was no Romanian Nobility in Transylvania. Noblemen, aristocratic families in Transylvania were Hungarian.
OK.... singing off :)
True. Vlad Tepes wasn’t Transylvanian he was Wallachian.
As a Romanian I want to ask .. WTF are you on about ?
RO Dragon = EN Dragon (yes, it's literally the same word, just with a different pronounciation)
RO Drac = EN Devil
Also, what do you mean there was no romanian nobility in Transylvania ?! Just because Tansylvania was under Austro/Hungarian occupation doesn't mean there was no romanian nobility.
"singing off" .. yeah, go sing at another table.
@@anonymususer1728 yeah, no ... go educate yourself... come back in a year or two and we can have a conversation.
@@sigmundklaus Macar esti roman, desteptule ?
You and Dan Davis posting in the same day! Oh boy oh boy, this will be a good night
I hadn’t heard of him until I checked out his channel because of your comment, so Thank you 🙏🏼 . He looks like he has some good content . Much love 💖
A middle age description of the personality disorder narcissism hence the reason they cannot:
see their reflection, or ability to self reflect on their actions
they are very real. just described in the vocabulary of the time
It's self loathing.
Yes the hungry dead are often spoken of in traditional witchcraft. Society has sterilized the dying and dead.
Beautiful video!💚👻💚
Although vampires were not known for being aristocratic in the original folklore, I guess there is no reason why an aristocrat _couldn't_ have become a vampire from a folkloric point of view.
Definitely 🎯💯
Wow that's a new one for me. Around the 25 minute mark they talk about vampires being the same as hungry ghosts. Interesting 🤔
I don't think it is the same, but I think the idea originates from the same concept.
I’m from Norway and we definitely believe in draugr here.
What's a draugr
Great Presentation Thank You for a most interesting programme.
love this video and your channel too of course... much Luck moving into our shared modern madness of plummeting intelligence while inversely the Real western world health crisis being this never before seen, thing that's blindsided all of our greatest, most gifted minds of right now, so completely some peeps on the inside with inside intelligence, have concluded we've already passed it's Rubicon and sadly we can do not very much but, await and watch how terrible catastrophic and beyond sad, looking towards the center of very real & ineffable evil.
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