Week 2 ReadingsI. Slavic Folk Culture by Moszyuski – Reading 2a. Dual nature in belief system as the soul of a dead person and as a living corpseb. Important characteristic of vampires is the wreaking of their rage upon livingbeings with death as the final resultc. Kill by sucking blood or devouring flesh usually, or breath in faces unusuallyd. In Slavdom, vampire must first attack own familye. Become a vampire from a violent death or being jumped/stepped/flown overby a living beingf. Vampires Killed by wooden stake driven into skull of foreheadII. The Sun, the Slavs, and Vampires by Perkowski – Reading 3a. The term vampire first occurred in the East Slavic manuscript of 1047 ADb. The concept is described as a creature which devours the sun and moon, while chasing cloudsc. Separate forces in the world are God vs. Satan, Good vs. Evil, and God vs. Matteri. The man is dual; his soul is divine and his body is evilii. Satan seeks to imprison light in the darkness of matter and to prevent the soul from returning to heaveniii. Redemption is the release of the soul in deathIII. Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian by Perkowski – Reading 4a. Bulgariani. A corpse becomes a vampire if it has not been watched carefully enough, so that something jumps over it or suffered a violent deathii. A vampire performs his evil tricks for 40 days and if not destroyed, he develops a skeleton and becomes more frighteningiii. To protect themselves from vampires, place a sunflower on the door ofthe houseiv. Detect a corpse turning into a vampire when it becomes bloated before the burialv. Cures for vampires are to be killed by a wolf or vampirdzhja (vampire killer)b. Serbiani. Dead husband’s spirit coming to visit her at night in the form of a vampireii. Cures for this vampire are to exhume the body, impale it with a hawthorn stake, cremate it, scatter the ashes, and return the remaining bones to the graveiii. The deamon here is more a mora than a vampire repping the wifes grief and tormentc. Croatiani. The dead coming back to life to kill until they are again killed with a pointed staked. East European Vampiresi. Perowski defines vampires as, “a being which derives sustenance froma victim, who is weakened by this experience. The sustenance may be physical or emotional in nature”ii. Vampire is a type of dead or undead who emerges from his grave, in order to attack the living during their sleep inhumanelyiii. Vampires are spirits of death and not demoniciv. South Slavs call vampire “werewolves”v. Sorcerers, witches, werewolves, excommunicates, and godless people become vampires at their deathsIV. Luella Miller by Wilkins-Freeman – Reading 5a. Haunted house that Luella Miller used to live that everyone stays away fromb. A woman moved into it and after a week, she was found dead on her bedc. One truthful sharp-nosed old woman named Lydia Anderson knew Luella Miller personallyi. Luella was pretty and had a good grace of motion and attitudeii. “She had a green shot silk she used to wear, and a hat with green ribbon streamers, and a lace veil blowing across her face and out sideways, and a green ribbon flyin’ from her waist” (176)d. Lottie Henderson taught for Luella before she died after Luella was there for a yeare. Luella’s husband, Erastus, “went into consumption of the blood the year after he was married…he grew weaker…spoke feebly…wanted to leave Luella…used to cut wood, looks hunched looking more dead than alive” (177)i. Erastus died, falling on the kitchen floor getting breakfast, like her always did for Luellaf. Luella didn’t sew, saying it made her shoulder acheg. After six month of Erastus’s sister Lily moved in with Luella, she started to lose the liveliness out of her till she diedh. Lily’s Aunt Abby Mixter came and moved in with her and she too began to lose her liveliness and eventually diedi. Aunt Abby’s daughter came to visit and confessed that she killed her own husbandii. Aunt Abby had green checkered shawl over her headi. “Luella fainted dead away and we had to lay her flat on the floor…she faced him just as white as even Luella was laying there lookin like death” (182)j. Maria moved in to help Luella with living since she never did anything for herself – she didn’t live long eitherk. The Doctor wanted to be married before he began to die so he attempted to marry Luella but didn’t last after the minister finishedl. From them on, no one became in the presence of Luella as she laid sickly in bed at homem. It was a full moon as Lydia was going back to Luella’s house and she witnessed all the people she had killed walking out her house from helping her…she flew into the midst and they all disappearedn. Luella Miller’s house was burned to the ground the next