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Night Crawlers of The Eastern Europe

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HERE IS A PLACE FOR NIGHT CROWLERS FROM SLAVIC AND NOT SLAVIC STATES OF MIDDLE AND EAST OF EUROPE

"...superstitions about various demons and spirits such as domovoi, likho, vilas, vampires, vodyanoy, rusalkas etc. - many of these tales and beliefs may be quite ancient, and probably contain at least some elements of old mythical structure, but they are not myths themselves. They lack a deeper, sacral meaning and religious significance, and furthermore they tend to vary greatly among various Slavic populations..."

"...although the belief in vampires was widespread over Asia and Europe, it was primarily a Slavic and Hungarian legend..."

"...there are many Slavic historical documents that focus on the origins of the vampire story, beginning as early as 1047. From literature, though, classic Russian vampire stories from the 19th-century, like Gogol’s “Viy,” Turgenev’s “Phantoms,” AK Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vurdalak,” and 20th-century works such as Pelevin’s “A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia,” and Lukyanenko’s “Night Watch” trilogy show the longevity of the subject in the literature. There are also many non-Slavic “revisitings” of the original stories, like Stoker’s “Dracula”..."

"...beyond the Russians, the vampire is well known to the Ukrainians. The vampire tradition is also well documented among the West Slavs– the Czechs, Poles and particularly the Kasubs, who live at the mouth of the Vistula River– and among the South Slavs– Macedonians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The vampire is also well-known in Greece, Romania, Hungary and Albania..."

"..During the 18th century there was a major vampire scare in Eastern Europe. Even government officials frequently got dragged into the hunting and staking of vampires..."

"...The word 'vampire' derives from the Slavic word 'vampir' or 'vampyr', first appearing in the 1600s in the Eastern European region in the Balkans. 'vampir' is derived from 'upir', which first appeared in print in an Old Russian manuscript from 1047 AC in which a Novgorodian prince is referred to as 'Upir Lichyj' (Wicked Vampire)..."

"...The word vampire only came into the English language in 1732 via an English translation of a German report of the much-publicized Arnold Paole vampire staking in Serbia..."

"...The Dead Un-Dead was one of Stoker's original titles for Dracula, and up until a few weeks before publication, the manuscript was titled simply The Un-Dead. The name of Stoker's count was originally going to be Count Vampyre, but while doing research, Stoker became intrigued by the word dracul...">

"...It has been suggested that Stoker was influenced by the history of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Bathory is known to have tortured and killed anywhere between 36 and 700 young women over a period of many years, and it was commonly believed that she committed these crimes in order to bathe in or drink their blood, believing that this preserved her youth..."

...legends about vampires and werewolves still live today.

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Comment by Violet Silent on June 7, 2009 at 6:43pm: Oh, yes,
enjoy the silence,
silence is sexy in einsturzende neubauten,
so just take a breathe,
and use it to fill the empty spaces,
between good and evil,
heart and soul,
swimming in a fish bowl

Comment by Veronique Coleridge(pamella now) on June 4, 2009 at 3:08pm: pink floyd!!!!
is the best band that ever exsist
is my life soundtrack
is just perfect
my favorite album is
animals and the wall of corse