June 5, 2023 • 54 mins
This week we dig into the mythology surrounding Strigoi - the inspiration for what became known as the vampire. We'll cover their impact on folklore and legend, including how these creatures come into being, attack, and kill.
We also delve into some of the historical and cultural aspects of Strigoi and touch on the prevalence of beliefs and actions towards Strigoi, which raises the question of whether something is actually there, even if it may not be exactly what people believe.
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the other side. In my opinion, belief is one of
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the most fascinating discoveriesyou can make when researching
the origins of folklore. And while locally time is known
to turn deeply-held practices and is superstitions and leave
Traditions, without meaning for the rest of us distance.
Grants is safety from the evidence of experience shifting
Legends. Do a bastard eyes pop culture.
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As is the case with the strigoi in Romania.
Rising from the grave to feed onand drain the life force of
those ones closest to it. The strigoi methodically
terrorized and killed through mysterious illness.
Drought famine destruction, likea plague with a face.
The strigoi bring ruin to entirefamilies.
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Taking Lives one by one night. After night, leaving a whole
towns and Villages painted with despair, it is from these
memories from the tales of thosewho witness the torment of the
strigoi and survive that we can build a family tree stretching
back, thousands of years and Trace the true lineage of
Dracula and the Bloodlines the modern vampire This week, we're
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listening to our elders, leavinggarlic on, our doorstep, and
cutting the heart out of the creatures who Shadows have been
stolen by the night, join us. As we sink our teeth of the
history of the strigoi Dawn, Dawn, Dawn spooky.
Welcome everyone. Episode 49 of the black cat
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report. My name is Gill.
And I'm joined with this eveningby my Undead co-host, spezza
Bay. Joey, it's me count.
Chocula the gesture of the Dracula's.
God damn it and Selena. Hi there.
Now I'm going to be honest sources for this episode are
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very widespread and will be included in the show notes.
I ain't going to list them all. Take that ya internet stuff.
Now, now before we dive into thefiner details, it's important to
make a few distinctions between the strigoi and vampires.
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Namely, what is the difference between a strigoi and a vampire?
Yeah. What is their modern relatives?
We're gonna let her getting in. We have never even heard of that
before. It's from me.
Any exactly, hmm. How cultural of you?
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Namely what is the difference between a strigoi and a vampire?
Unlike their modern relatives, the strigoi are not a singular
type of Undead. Being all in Romanian strigoi
simply translates into Undead. The term can be used to describe
a living person involved in Black Magic who can actively
transform into what is called a strigoi view, or it can also
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refer to an undead Human reanimated by a grievance fate
curse. Even the consequences of their
life choices. These are known as the strigoi
more and while vampires are often depicted as being
seductive. While dressed bloodsuckers who
either decapitate or transform, their victims, the strigoi can
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range in appearance from an average looking person to
ghoulish ghostly or even zombie-like, and they rarely
required blood to survive with all that said.
Let's Dive In You First recordedby Johan, we card van valves or
please don't make me repeat thatname and published in 1698.
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Our first tale is, in fact, the very first case of a strigoi in
1656 and a small Croatian Village called gringa.
You're a gondol a man known locally for having a rude vile
personality passed away leaving his wife widowed.
And the town, though, not explicitly stated probably
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Slightly relieved, but much to the Chagrin of the locals hand
is newly freed wife, you're a would soon return, like, waiting
for the hand of death over the next 16 years, the villagers of
Kringle lived, in a routine of fear as every night, Yuri's
Undead corpse would stroll through town approaching a new
house and then knocking loudly on its door.
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He would soon be recognized thatwithout fail receiving.
These knocks always meant one thing, someone in the house
would drop dead within the next few days.
With the torment of Uris, nightly raids wasn't limited to
making these foreboding announcements before daylight
would breach your a heaving and gasping for breath through an
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unnatural smile would appear in the bedroom of his old house
saturating the air with the smell.
All of his Rotting Flesh, you'rea would then proceeded to rape
his horrified former wife takingwhat he still considered his
before. Finally, leaving the terrorized
town and returning to his grave while Omens abound and are
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rarely considered reliable forecasts to anyone.
But the most faithful time wouldpass and officials would be
forced to recognize the growing rumors of death knocking on the
town stores. One such official Georgi oh the
village priest East would eventually connect the dots
between the growing Whispers of a corpse predicting death and
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the ravings of a Sleepless Widow, claiming nightly
incursions by her former husband.
Very man Giorgio had laid to rest nearly 16 years earlier.
Wait, wait, are we sure it just wasn't the priest going over
there and then and then raping her in the band.
Like, I think it was, it's a struggle.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what itwas.
It's just a struggle. Yeah, yeah.
Hey, maybe, maybe it became a great great, excuse later.
Also, I think she was a little bit too old for a priest taste
sexually, but It's just my opinion and history.
Anyways when the moment to act finally came the priesthood and
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wait on the corpses nightly pathhours would grow and pass into
the Silence of the early morningbefore just as he expected
Giorgio began to hear a loud gasping between footsteps
starting to approach. Since the corpse of the grinning
your eye and got within a few feet, Giorgio spraying out in
front of him across in hand, shouting, quote bait Hull.
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Jesus Christ used to Gon Stop tormenting us, shocked by the
biblical, Ambush your his face filled with tears and he ran off
into the night. Isn't this in Croatia?
Yeah. But I still like to picture him
as like a Southern Baptist preacher because it's just big
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gone. Strict Koya strings.
Oh no it is a big Don beef stroganoff.
Yeah. Get on out of here.
Go on get well. Now as a side note well there
have been tons of references forthousands of years all over the
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world to creatures and entities fitting the description of a
vampire. This moment when Giorgio calls
your a Astra gone, though, a little corny is, in fact, the
earliest recorded use of the literal word vampire.
That's why this is so, Don't well surprisingly somehow I
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don't know how it could possiblyhave happened but somehow the
hopes and prayers of Giorgio didn't stop purees reign of
terror and Kringle. I know I'm shocked too.
So after the people of the Town gave the church in the chance to
find out, it's like that. I'm not shocked.
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This is like, of course. This story, you know?
But this is you'll see at the end of this.
Why that moment was so significant, not just for the
name, drop the first name drop, which is really confusing,
because he literally just made up a word, whatever.
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But the first name drop, like why that moment is so
significant in vampire history, but any is so after the people
of the Town gave the church, a chance only to find deaths.
Promise still coming nightly a man by the name.
Name of mijo Redick. Decided to put an end to this
town's Undead. Burden, yes, his name is
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literally mijo, mijo, rallied a small group of local villagers,
and set out into the night, eventually hunting down your a
and attempting to stabbed him inthe chest with a branch made of
Hawthorne, it didn't work, the branch wouldn't penetrate your
skin. And in the confrontation, all
that would happen is you're a would slip away and Scurry off
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into the night, stick-wielding vigilante.
Is pissed off shaking their fists.
Wow, odd. So the next day, a new plan of
attack was made and that night ahit squad of nine men including
up beside you and the guys from the previous night who I guess
technically count as the first official vampire Hunters.
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Set off to finish the job this time.
Like what is wild little van helsing's over there?
That's what I was gonna say. For real, hmm.
Well this time they went straight to the Town Cemetery
and dug up the coffin of Yoda Grand.
Do once open the men step back and shocked though, it had been
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16 years since his death. You're a appeared to be sleeping
peacefully grin on his face and no signs of decomposition.
Stepping forward, the priest yelled out more commands from
God and made several failed attempts to lunch.
Another steak made of Hawthorn Interiors chest, he then tried
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to do a quick exorcism on Yorubafor making even more failed
attempts with the wooden stake. Well at some point after
watching what had to have lookedlike a group of uncle's trying
to get a stuck lug nut off of a car wheel and me try it.
Hmm. Yep, God damn it.
Let me try. Nope, God damn it one, man,
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steep on Mill. Assic said let me try, he then
walked up to the coffin. Pulled out his saw and started
trying to cut off your his head Jesus.
That's not right. We're doing.
He said let me try and he just didn't go through his neck.
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So just gotta saw this fucker, everybody knows the way to a
vampire's heart is through its goddamn neck.
Yeah, well Legend has it that onthe first cut your is I shot
open any letter. An ear-splitting scream before
blood started gurgling from his mouth as stipend kept sawing
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further, and further into his neck until finally, his head was
removed after this act of desecration hearing.
Never again roamed, The Village streets, the town, finally found
peace. And from this moment on
decapitating, the hand became one of the go-to solutions for
anyone. Rised by strigoi.
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I would imagine that. That would stop anybody.
Yeah, well, go for the head. It is, it Team America World
Police or what the hell is that movie where they're like, ah,
they're powerless without their hands.
Yeah, it might have been Mars Attacks.
I don't remember there's some movie that just really isn't.
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It's so brilliant, where they'rejust look who they're they're
powerless without their heads. That was literally Only this
moment, Joe. He's looking it up, Jimmy, keep
going. What do we got?
What do we got? He's probably watching football
right now. It's Scary Movie 3.
Fuck yes. Another genius.
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Peace and cinematic history. Hashtag winning.
It is it really is the Wayans brothers with the shit like full
of respect. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Well, other than the use of the word stroke own right, which
over in Croatia. It's Same word as strigoi its
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vampire, it's the closest damn thing.
Like in linguistic history to the word vampire was the first
use other than the use of the word.
This story solidified so much ofwhat will later become cannon in
the Legends of vampires, right? And so the more that I read
about the somewhere that it started to dawn on me, I was
like, wow, these seemingly comedic moments.
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Honestly really did just grow over the next 400 plus years.
Into What We Now. Understand as the legend of the
vampires sleeping in a coffin, during the day only coming out
at night. Never aging, or decomposing
sexual lust, even the less significant moments would go on
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to become exaggerated and evolved into having deeper roles
in vampire mythology, for instance, the reaction, you're a
had to Giorgio confronting him with a cross when it happened.
Yuri just started crying before scaring away.
This moment in the story mutatedover time, and has grown to
include a whole realm of Legendsbehind it.
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The shriek of Terror when somebody holds across to a
vampire burning them with. Holy water, that belief that a
vampire can't set foot on Hallowed Ground, like going into
a church, the archetype of a vampire hunting priest, all of
these things came from this moment, even the use of a wooden
stake it literally never worked but this part of the story has
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become a So type, I can't even count the number of times and
movies where I've seen someone break the leg off of a chair and
sharpen it before fighting a vampire.
Like, that's just a thing that always happens in vampire movie.
And if you watched Buffy at all,she literally has like a
backpack. Full of just wouldn't steaks.
It is, yeah, like this is such athing.
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But like these comical moments, grew like that, right?
To be fair, the only branches weren't sharpened So they were I
know when he was saying that they couldn't get it.
Yeah it's like there was a reason I was imagining like just
a flat on both sides piece of wood and they're like it's not
going in guys and like just they're crying.
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They're like literally like they're like holding the branch
sideways, trying to shove it into his chest a bit.
Like why won't this slapping with it?
Well, all of this stuff, the religious symbolism and like,
how that would evolve that stereotype of the priest.
That's hunting vampires. I mean, shit like what is it?
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I think it's the Lost Boys whereit's like a super soaker filled
with holy water like you know like all of these things just
compounded from this moment in the mid-1600s right and it's
just fed to me that's absolutelyfascinating like finding that
moment in history where everything evolved in spiraled
from Every Time I Think of the Lost Boys.
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I'm just like it reminds me of like they're like, oh you like
eating maggots when they got himlike white rice and then it
makes me think of what we do in the shadows where they feed
them. Spaghetti basghetti has Getty in
there like some basket there, like you like eating worms and
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then like everybody freaks out and then the new vampire tries
to do it to them with french fries.
And they're like, it does, it just works with things that are
Ready. Kind of look like, worms.
What are you doing? That's funny.
I fucking love what we do in theshadows.
Yeah, two great movies Lost Boys.
And yeah, Shadows. Well, this all brings us to the
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original, Legends surrounding the strigoi.
They have a tail covered in longhair horse.
Hooves for feet a large mouth and hairy hands.
They can transform not just intobats, but any number of animals,
including rabbits wolves, dogs, cats, owls, rats and cockroaches
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as a sorry. The first along with regular was
that that first description justsounded like A fucking horse.
Yeah, a little bit. Okay, it's like a horse.
A horse is a strigoi, but he canalso be a bunny voice course
boy. Spooky horse or spooky bunny.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless he is a
strigoi, so it's this thing likenot human like it's like Undead.
It's Undead like a zombie or a vampire kind of.
It's so and, and we're about to,like, dig into this a little bit
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when we get into the types of struggling.
Oh my God, but I think, oh yeah,no, not, there's types, A whole
fucking, there's a whole catalog.
And this is what's interesting is.
So like at least to me, was going through the types and
learning about the different types of strigoi.
I How like Bram Stoker, when he like, when he created Dracula,
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he went through and cherry-picked write the
different ways that they attack the different ways that they
appear. They'll like behavior, all these
different things he went through, and Cherry Picked all
the different types of these. These entities that existed for
hundreds and thousands of years before he wrote Dracula and he
was like and a little bit of youand a little bit of you and a
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little bit of you and put them all together.
That is a vampire. So like What we see as the
modern vampire, vampire has incredibly long complex history
of like a multiplicity of beings.
Right. It's almost like if you took all
of the Greek gods and put them into one and then said that they
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were born on Christmas and then you proceed, it have Easter
because the got resurrected 08 that's Christianity but like
it's kind of like that but with a month.
Yeah I mean you got your different types, you got your
head. Words, you got your blades, you
got your Tom Cruise is late. You know, you got all the
different kinds of vampires out there that you're kind of hits.
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You know and whether your team Tom your team Brad your team,
you know Edward you know just met water import.
Yeah. Yeah we don't support Jake.
So wait, I just want to point out.
Edward has been a vampire for like thousands of years and in
their house they have like a thing of all the high schools.
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He's Curated and I'm just saying, why the fuck would you
go to high school for a thousandyears?
Yeah, why not? Because you went to the Bronx,
you know, I mean that must be the first he explains it to
because like he's like, I'm justlike picking up under each
chicks. No, I do.
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You know what they say about howschool girls?
He's literally the guy from thatmovie.
You know, what they say about high school girls?
Atma cotton older and they stay the same age.
Yes they do. Yes, they do.
He should have said that is Edward Cullen.
I know, I know you should set upand know it was just like an
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inside joke for them. Like, I mean, what else are they
gonna do? Thousands of years to figure
that out with adults, possibly. I mean yeah, high school kids
and I mean he never liked dated anyone else like you never that
Bella was on video about the baby.
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Very careful she's saying so so he didn't date any other miners
you didn't he didn't he got her pregnant but also told her that
he wanted to eat her so it was kind of abusive and not really
safe for her. And also we know that he didn't
date anyone because he says so, but we're going to believe him.
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That is true. We should not believe men.
When they say, it's always actions and not words.
Well, anybody, so anybody when I've literally spent the past,
like, week week and a half, justlike going through and, like,
just just finding the most obscure content, online of,
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like, photocopied books that were in, like, borderline
ancient like Romanian and Austrian and Croatian, and like
using that to like, use like an optical character recognition
software to identify the letters.
Then I could run it through the Google translate, and then I
could go through and like, correct, the text and figure
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out, like, what is the fucking origin?
What is the, the fucking like birth of the goddamn modern
vampire? I want the placenta on my face,
like, show me when it fucking happened.
Like, I've been Diggin. Alright watch Twilight, right?
Yeah. Now I've been fucking in there
and then Twilight came up and I'm like, man the whole time I
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was just like, push that thoughtout of your head Gil.
That's not Going to happen. These people respect history.
But hey you know, no no it's allabout file.
I skid hey Twilight was made long enough ago.
That it is part of History. Yeah that's right.
Ask all the millennial women here, right?
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And I just found myself ashamed of History.
So deep into like even the natives, you know, like the
whole wolf thing. Dang, that's history.
Bella Where Have You Been loca loca.
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Don't know where the fuck we were, but let's get back in.
All right. So as I said they can transform
not just in the bats, right? But any number of animals?
Including rabbits wolves, dogs, cats, owls, rats cockroaches
along. With regularly targeting
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specific parts of their own family.
And this is something that separates them from the way that
we generally view vampires. A strigoi will regularly attack
members or sections or areas of its own family, almost
exclusively, right? They do this along with
tormenting towns by causing wheat, crop failures emptying
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fruit from Orchards. And I've read enough accounts of
them by now, to confirm this, Stealing the feet off of cows.
Hmm, it's their equipment. I have no clue what that means
because they have they're like oh damn how do you steal the
foot off of a cow brown cow stunning, you do like that one
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guy, didn't you take a hacksaw to it?
And you just hack off them legs because people actually they
just not at the Grand Union, no tree.
All the other stuff makes sense.So right if you're if you're
what if they're just very strong, if you're coming at and
chop it off with their hands, a blade strigoi, just comes in
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with his sword, but like, all the other stuff makes sense to
me. Because like, you know, if
you're, if you're having bad shit happened back in the 1600s
1700s, 1800s, whatever, and you're like, goddamn strigoi,
came in town and fuck shit up, you know, it's like the crops
failed, there was a drought, youknow, hail He number of things,
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you'd blame that but like how many times did the feet of
people's cows? Go missing that that became part
of the legend of what struggle is do because it's shit happens.
And people are say, people wouldsay, that's a strigoi.
If you don't believe in them, then it's like something
happens. And I must have been the strigoi
last night. We're cows feet going missing
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like what? Maybe does this need to be an
episode. I'm confused like go out to
check on the horses early in themorning and see that they're
wearing dress shoes and they're like, huh, something's wrong and
then they go and check in there.Like, where are your feet?
And their human feet instead? Whoa, I'm scared.
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Let's see. Mr. Goal is, you were gonna be
the shoe model that helped us raise up in the family and
become famous. What are we gonna do now,
forecast? How is our only cows account?
Kind of make it without these only cows?
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They are addicted to sex and cancause they're hypnotized victims
to go mad with Obsession. They avoid garlic, onions, and
incense. So they live in fear of Italian
hippies they are most active anddangerous on two specific nights
out of the year. The eve of st.
Andrew's day, which is the Romanian winter, solstice,
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November 30th and on the Spring Equinox.
And these nights, the strigoi are said to come out and gather
it. Sort of Undead Fight Club kind
of situation where they beat theshit out of each other.
It's everything from wooden batstwo swords the victor of this
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Unholy Rumble receives the honorof getting to do the most harm
to the Village. They torment hell yeah.
Another fascinating aspect of the strigoi is that there are
wide range of types. The shrieking sugoi who call out
the name of the one they want tokill.
If the person answers they will die within a few days.
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A common belief about these types of strigoi is that they
can only yell out there would bevictim's name once which has led
to it becoming common practice, even to this day that somebody
else your name. You should never answer the
first time. Go the knocking, strigoi. they
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can only knock once, if someone responds by asking, say who's
there or opens the door then that person will die within the
next few days, the famish degruywho like a serial, killer with a
victim type, craves eating a certain type of person, such as
say, little girls, young men, Etc, The burden struggle I found
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in the forest or near the edge of a river.
They live trapped in a specific area until they are able to
climb onto someone's back and get carried out.
Once they are free, the one who carried them will soon die and
the stroke oil then wreak havoc on the town, it was taken to the
nightmare. Strigoi attacks people in their
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sleep by the ripping out their stomach, crushing them or
suffocating them. Famous version of this involves
children who have died who, if they come back a strigoi will
sit on top of the chest of theirparents, trying to suffocate
them in their sleep. That's normal I guess.
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Yeah. I imagine that the the knockings
to grow would be really shitty. Knock knock joke.
Tellers. Because they just feel like
knock. And the person would just be
waiting the whole time just being like Knock-Knock.
Waiting for the knock knock Lariat.
So yeah. No one's going to say, who's
there? Yeah, they're just waiting
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unless they're just, you know, the Romanians are just terrible
and jokes and they're just like,knock, who's there?
Oh, dang it. Not again.
Yeah. Can we go back to the fact that
they are addicted to? X.
Because how can they be addictedto sex if they're basically
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dead? And the fact that they don't
have feelings rigor? Mortis?
Well, yeah, well, it's like a supernatural being so like
they're able to walk around as if they're alive and stuff like
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that and just like that story that we heard.
Heard about that guy. That terrorizes town for 16
years, like he raped his wife regularly when he was, you know,
above ground, you know, being a strigoi.
Yeah. Like, it doesn't have anything
to do with like feelings or anything like that, and like, if
you meant like physical feelingsthan I think they are able to
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have physical feelings, because when that guy cut off his head,
he opened his eyes, he realized something was going on So yeah I
hope that answers your question.Thank you Selina.
And I know that that's like it. That is a really good question
because it kind of brings me to something that like I've been
having a very hard time understanding but honestly I
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found is like one of the most fascinating things, researching
this case which is that in Eastern Europe for a long long
time before Christianity kind oflike came in and was like Hey
fuck all your pagan holidays. This is the New shit.
We're just going to move it a day ahead or a day behind and
relabel it as something that involves a saint right.
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It used to be common belief and large areas of Eastern Europe,
where, where Romania is, we're Transylvania is the home of
Dracula, right? That people had two Souls, And
that to me is like it's so it's so underwhelming when you first
hear it. But then, when you stop to think
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about it, at least for me, it was just endlessly, fascinating,
right? The mechanics behind having two
Souls. I've never come across any
beliefs, any cultures, write anyreligious systems where they
actually believe a human being has two separate.
Souls 2, distinct Souls existingwithin their body.
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It's always one. Every single time.
It's always you have one Soul that's just with you, you die
and it goes on to whatever form of afterlife or non afterlife or
gets reincarnated or something like that.
But it's always one. I've never come across the
belief system where it has to hmm and from what I've been able
to understand and I don't, you know, make the claim to have an
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understanding of an entire systems intricacy, right?
Is that in the Waking Life? You have a soul that's
completely independent from you,that's not your personality.
It's a completely separate life that leaves when you go to sleep
at night and has its own goddamnlife.
Like literally you have a soul that leaves when you go to sleep
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and has its own experience, has its own life.
And then when you die, There's aseparate Soul, not that first
one, that then goes on to whatever afterlife.
And I do want to make a distinction here to and feel
like Selena might have been thrown up a finger on this.
There is two spirit belief, right in many of the First
Nations belief systems in the United States, this is
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completely separate like this isnot saying that you embody
whatever a culture might view asmasculine and feminine right?
In terms of traditional roles and Yada yada yada around
genders. This is no, literally, two
separate Souls doing two, separate things that exist
within your body. And so, Four stroke or EV right
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for the living strigoi. That is the dream version of
somebody that can be controlled and sent off into the world when
somebody transforms into a strigoi.
But for the strigoi mort, right?That is when somebody dies and
they become a strigoi, that is the strigoi.
That is the undead that's almostlike a zombie, right?
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And that is the spirit that comes about or exist when you
die that is supposed to go on toan afterlife.
I don't know the mechanics behind And this are fucking
insane and they're so foreign tomy understanding of how the
world is supposed to work in life and afterlife.
But if anybody listening to thisknows anything about this, this
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duality of souls, right? This system behind it.
Seriously, hit us up contact at Black Cat dot report or hit us
up on Instagram at Black Cat report.
Super easy to find us but I am incredibly fascinated.
And I have not had enough time to dig into it.
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Well, but that said enough aboutall that, let's get to another
tale. This one a little more recent
and to be honest in my opinion deserving of its own episode.
You see, we dig into and research these cases up to the
moment, we record each one like a weekly Obsession.
And in this case I discovered old books, photocopied, and
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published online. That I've been running through
Google translate. Now maybe I'm just geeking out
here, but what I'm about to tellyou, Tell you is fucking crazy
and I want to know, do you want us to do an episode about it?
If so stick around to the end and I'll tell you how to vote in
a secret poll, okay? Now let's Dive In so unlike your
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a, a strigoi mort who became transformed after his death, our
next case involves a young girl from Romania, twelve-year-old,
Eleonora Zoo gun, Well, Eleanor,it does not fit the typical
description of a modern vampire.She does fall squarely into the
profile of a circle review. One who is gifted with Stricker
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Powers by the devil and transforms while still alive.
Now, what's interesting about Eleanor's story is not only when
and happened that but how well documented it was as Legend goes
in 1925. The Romanian Village of talpa,
had a bit of a situation on their hands.
A child from the village Eleonora suddenly had two
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objects floating around her, butthis wasn't just a one-off
event, though, it kept happeningand would ultimately lead to the
villagers labeling. Her a quote tool of the devil in
response. They locked her in a shed,
sentencing her to starve to death alone.
But by the time, the sentence was served word of the, young
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girl died already spread to other towns.
And in reach the ear of one was to look OC rosicki.
An Austrian Countess who just happened to have been traveling
through the area. The Countess who had a Love of
All Things, a cult in paranormalquickly, traveled to the village
and made a deal with the people.If they released Eleonora, she
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would adopt her and take her back to Vienna.
It's the relief of literally everyone involved.
They agreed and almost Disney like kind of movie scenario.
Eleonora started a new life in Vienna as an official member of
Austrian royalty. The shit's fucking in st.
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Well, it would be here under thecurious and caring, watch of
Countess wasel that ghosts are tacky that both paranormal
investigators and scientist would study the claim.
Ames surrounding Eleonora. This brings us now to the
accounts of Harry price. A ghost hunter from England, who
made the trip to Austria, just to investigate the young girls
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Powers. He wouldn't be disappointed
during his first visit with Eleonora Harry watched as the
toy. He brought her as a gift, broke
itself in front of everyone, while no one was touching it.
Then before the shock of this wore off Witnesses, watched as A
knife levitated off of a table. And then darted through the room
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narrowly passing Harry's head before lodging itself, into a
wood, door behind him. After that seemingly random
objects, both big and small began lifting off of the ground,
moving around the room and smashing into the walls.
That's crazy. This is fucking nuts.
I'm sorry. This is fucking that's like an
evil Matilda. Hmm, I know, right?
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Until they could have used her powers for evil.
Well clearing up any doubt. He may have had this first
meeting with Eleanor would end with Harry making an arrangement
with the Countess and short timeHarry would be in charge of
regularly testing and studying the young girls powers in the
countess's official Laboratory. Again, she was all about this
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shit, you know. Before this happened, she found
or she heard about the girl and quickly like rush to the Village
to see what was up. Saw the way they were treating
her arms like no. No, like she's special.
I'll straight up adopter. I will adopt her and take her
away from you and all the villagers are like, please.
We technically don't want to kill a little girl, but she's
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evil is fuck. Please take her away.
And the little girl just like straight up, went from a
situation of like, what's all this shit floating around me,
20. I'm being locked into a shed to
tie two, I guess I'm basically aprincess.
Now, the crazy, this is, I like to imagine this is over the
course of like 12 hours. This is the most Disney
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situation you can imagine. If that happened to me, I would
be so scared that, like I had actually died and that I was
like, this was like not real. Yeah, this your dream like just
some beautiful. Ian like royalty woman just like
I'd come here, sweetie. I'm taking you away from all
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this, I'd be like, oh shit, I die.
It's this technically how all the Christmas Story?
Start the Christmas. Hallmark movies.
Start. Yeah.
No that's why. I'll this is I've the documents
I found after writing this portion of the script like she
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adopts an official royal title and she straight up
historically, does become a partof Austrian Royal Tang.
This is real and like I found parapsychological like
magazines. Like the early 1900's on
arxiv.org and a number of other websites where the folks that
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I'm talking about here are writing reports back to England
and saying this is what happenedthis week.
This is what we tested, this is what we still like there was so
much behind Eleonora, right thisthis fucking happen and this is
I don't know. This is a rabbit hole that I was
like I don't have time to go down but holy shit.
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The sounds insane. Yeah.
Yeah, it definitely needs its own episode.
It does it does. In my opinion, it does.
Well during this research, it would be documented that Elinor
was not only gifted with Advanced abilities in the realm
of telekinesis. But also regularly covered in
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strange red marks, and B, that would seemingly just appear out
of thin air when asked where themarks came from, Eleanor would
reply, quote Note, the B saw thework of the devil.
And that was it, I mean straightup like on point.
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She's like 12 and she's just like the ask her and she's just
like it's the devil. It is what it is, is what it is,
is nuts, that's crazy. Wild devil, It's the devil.
Anyways block, block, block train, train train, he just
playing. Now, as promised.
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Well that said let's move on to our last case.
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This one involving a subject that no tail of a would be
complete without and that is strictly Hunters.
Mmm, as to be expected for as long as there have been strict,
Boyd, terrorizing communities. There is also been those who
rise up and fight back some evenmaking it a profession.
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This brings us now to the well-publicized case of a body
being being desecrated in Romania.
Only 19 years ago. Hmm, you see in late 2003.
A 76 year old man by the name ofPete.
Ray Toma was riding home on his horse drawn, carriage through
rule Romania. After what Witnesses described
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as a long night of drinking, At some point on his journey home.
The intoxicated man fell off hisseat and was crushed by the
Hooves and wheels of his horse drawn.
Carriage after a short period oftime, he teratomas laid to rest
in a local Cemetery, or at least.
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That's what locals had first thought so soon.
After Petrus, passing his sisterbegan, experiencing Extreme
Weight Loss from an unknown disease as well as An intense
series of Night. Terrors regularly screaming out,
quote. He's on top of me.
He's eating me. He's killing me.
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Her symptoms grew so extreme andso detrimental that her husband
Peter has brother-in-law reachedout to a sheep herder who lived
on the edge of town. A 67 year old man named Erica
Patricia. Sorry, y'all doing my best.
I can doing the best again. America was well known in the
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area for being skilled. In the old ways educated in the
methods of dealing with the types of phenomenon.
The family had grown to suspect,a strigoi, by the time of his
arrival at their home. It was early 2004 and The
Afflicted woman's condition, hadonly been growing worse, it was
obvious to all those present thetime to act was now.
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So after a long night of drinking the men of the
household took off towards the local Cemetery.
Once they arrived, they dug up the grave of betray Toma, open
the casket and discovered a body.
Not only showing few, if any signs of decomposition, but a
small trail of blood dripping from the edge of his mouth.
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At the sight of this anomaly Miracle, lifted a pitchfork and
struck into the chest of the corpse cutting through the rib
cage and revealing, The still-beating heart of P3, he
then proceeded to cut the heart loose from the body, fill the
coffin with cloves, of garlic, and bring the heart, to the
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nearest Cross Roads in town where he burned it until it was
just a pile of Ash. After this, he took the ash back
to the family's house, mixed it with water, and gave it to the
second woman to drink. She did and within days, her
illness was gone and the family finally settled thing piece is
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that Exactly said that's disgusting.
Yeah it's literally like a hard Ash T that's that's what
happening Russians. And people are sick of the
Kardashians. Well, the story doesn't end
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there after a close family. Member received news of Peter
days, body being dug up and tornapart.
She contacted the town's local authorities.
Once they arrived, they quickly confirmed her worst fears.
He threw his body was completelydecapitated.
His chest was torn open and the entire coffin was filled with
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garlic. The school case quickly went to
trial in the parties involved were charged with up to six
months in prison for the desecration of the body during
trial. Something happened, not only did
everyone involved completely ownup to their actions stating that
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they wouldn't hesitate to do theexact same thing again, if
needed. But citizens of the Town spoke
up stating that they also witnessed the torment caused by
the strigoi and that they to supported the actions of the men
on trial. By the time, the case was over
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the defendants were released with no jail time, just a small
fine and renewed a tradition, which would take hold all
throughout the area to stake theheart of everyone.
Laid to rest on the day of theirfuneral that's messed up.
And this is now the current practice, the current tradition,
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the current reality for sectionsof Romania, who deal with the
strigoi, It's up to you to decide if this is folklore.
But for me, I'm a little bit on the fence.
These folks 100% believe it, I've watched hours of babushkas.
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Just talking about what they've been dealing with since they
were kids and I kind of always have a hard time like looking at
somebody in their eyes when it'sperson after person and they
just say like this is what I experienced.
This is what I went through and that's the only kind of like Off
the Wall thing that they would say to you, you know, I don't
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know, let us know. But It's just as legit as
anything else. Yeah, I just got the image.
Once you said that like it's common practice now to do that
to everybody. Just imagine like at that open
casket. They're like all right say
goodbye to Grandma is steak steak to the heart.
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Hey you ever coming back now? And then bonjour, you gave
garlic. A bad name, Brown around to
predators. Yeah, pretty much it.
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This is trippy though because like we have to picture that
like part of the world like a fair section of the global
population. Straight up believes, right?
That they deal with this on a regular basis that this is 100%
reality changing changing their life changing the way they react
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to their own name. The way they answered their
door, the way, like everything around it is just like no, no,
no, don't do that. No, no don't do that down to
burial rituals which are a majorpart of straw real or like so
much of stir. Corey Moore is basically like
the person was in Buried properly.
Properly. Right?
I wasn't going to get into the very very long and convoluted
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details of like burial traditionbecause in any culture it's very
long and very convoluted. But in Romania if you fuck up at
any point basically you got a vampire on your hands.
You have a strigoi coming back to town being like you fucked
up, homie? Time to kill some motherfuckers,
right? And so now in modern times, and
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the areas of Romania where they still believe in, Goalie or deal
with strigoi. However, you want to view it.
It's become common practice oncethe modern world has mixed with
the old beliefs to just ceremoniously like maybe drive a
stake through their heart on theday of their burial.
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So that you don't have to go back and dig a motherfucker up
and do it. And piss off the whole family
that like, their body has been like a dog up and left out in
the cemetery. It's just like, no, no.
It's gonna Final Touch here and Tink Tink Tink.
All right. Cool, put him down in the
ground, right? That's how strong it is.
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And so I guess I got asked the question is like at what point
when a large enough number of people believe and take actions
towards something, Is there likely something?
Maybe not exactly what they believe, but something there, I
don't know. I don't know.
First of interesting, it's interesting.
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First thought that comes to mindis racism and I'm like, no,
there's nothing there. Yeah.
Do it's literally just Romanianstalking about Romanians.
I mean, I don't know. It's nothing.
I meant the idea. Like if so many people you said,
if so many people have this belief like, you know, yeah.
How can we say that? There's nothing there but like
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in racism, a lot of that's perfect the same beliefs but
there really isn't anything there.
Yeah totally. That's that's 100%. 100% legit,
right? That's 100% legit.
But It does build the topic. It does build a question, it
does build something that becomes a conversation
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regardless of what side you fallon.
It's like well this is somethingthat we're dealing with at this
point, right. And like the fact that you know,
there's been so many accounts back to biblical days some
proverbs 30 15. Where like if you look at modern
translations of the Bible, it's straight-up references of
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vampire. Higher right.
I don't know, I don't know. Maybe, maybe there's a gang of
ninety-year-old babushkas that are totally saving us from Hell
flowing over. Who knows I'm saying is shits
wild, and thank you to that entire culture in that entire
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history for giving us Dracula and vampires, which we all know
are the cats of the Paranormal world, Peace, please.
Thank you for listening to the black cat report in our episode
on this trip boy has please likereview and follow us wherever
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you get your podcasts Gil. And I are working on a new show
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Stay tuned for some updates on our insta and our podcast.
We'll see you next week with another episode.
Sewed, on the other side. Sewed, on the other side.
I didn't see you there. Something big is going on here
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from hunting, goes to Bigfoot hair.
Normal UFOs, True Crime and more.
We won't just be spouting articles.
I was researching For Your Entertainment, beginning of a
new world, the best Bok Gil, ever fucking a true story.
It's basically like one day you walk outside and you see that
the answer playing with matches,this is a bug report, see you on
the other side. In my opinion, belief is one of
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the most fascinating discoveriesyou can make when researching
the origins of folklore. And while locally time is known
to turn deeply-held practices and is superstitions and leave
Traditions, without meaning for the rest of us distance.
Grants is safety from the evidence of experience shifting
Legends. Do a bastard eyes pop culture.
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As is the case with the strigoi in Romania.
Rising from the grave to feed onand drain the life force of
those ones closest to it. The strigoi methodically
terrorized and killed through mysterious illness.
Drought famine destruction, likea plague with a face.
The strigoi bring ruin to entirefamilies.
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Taking Lives one by one night. After night, leaving a whole
towns and Villages painted with despair, it is from these
memories from the tales of thosewho witness the torment of the
strigoi and survive that we can build a family tree stretching
back, thousands of years and Trace the true lineage of
Dracula and the Bloodlines the modern vampire This week, we're
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listening to our elders, leavinggarlic on, our doorstep, and
cutting the heart out of the creatures who Shadows have been
stolen by the night, join us. As we sink our teeth of the
history of the strigoi Dawn, Dawn, Dawn spooky.
Welcome everyone. Episode 49 of the black cat
(02:00):
report. My name is Gill.
And I'm joined with this eveningby my Undead co-host, spezza
Bay. Joey, it's me count.
Chocula the gesture of the Dracula's.
God damn it and Selena. Hi there.
Now I'm going to be honest sources for this episode are
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very widespread and will be included in the show notes.
I ain't going to list them all. Take that ya internet stuff.
Now, now before we dive into thefiner details, it's important to
make a few distinctions between the strigoi and vampires.
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Namely, what is the difference between a strigoi and a vampire?
Yeah. What is their modern relatives?
We're gonna let her getting in. We have never even heard of that
before. It's from me.
Any exactly, hmm. How cultural of you?
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Namely what is the difference between a strigoi and a vampire?
Unlike their modern relatives, the strigoi are not a singular
type of Undead. Being all in Romanian strigoi
simply translates into Undead. The term can be used to describe
a living person involved in Black Magic who can actively
transform into what is called a strigoi view, or it can also
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refer to an undead Human reanimated by a grievance fate
curse. Even the consequences of their
life choices. These are known as the strigoi
more and while vampires are often depicted as being
seductive. While dressed bloodsuckers who
either decapitate or transform, their victims, the strigoi can
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range in appearance from an average looking person to
ghoulish ghostly or even zombie-like, and they rarely
required blood to survive with all that said.
Let's Dive In You First recordedby Johan, we card van valves or
please don't make me repeat thatname and published in 1698.
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Our first tale is, in fact, the very first case of a strigoi in
1656 and a small Croatian Village called gringa.
You're a gondol a man known locally for having a rude vile
personality passed away leaving his wife widowed.
And the town, though, not explicitly stated probably
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Slightly relieved, but much to the Chagrin of the locals hand
is newly freed wife, you're a would soon return, like, waiting
for the hand of death over the next 16 years, the villagers of
Kringle lived, in a routine of fear as every night, Yuri's
Undead corpse would stroll through town approaching a new
house and then knocking loudly on its door.
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He would soon be recognized thatwithout fail receiving.
These knocks always meant one thing, someone in the house
would drop dead within the next few days.
With the torment of Uris, nightly raids wasn't limited to
making these foreboding announcements before daylight
would breach your a heaving and gasping for breath through an
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unnatural smile would appear in the bedroom of his old house
saturating the air with the smell.
All of his Rotting Flesh, you'rea would then proceeded to rape
his horrified former wife takingwhat he still considered his
before. Finally, leaving the terrorized
town and returning to his grave while Omens abound and are
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rarely considered reliable forecasts to anyone.
But the most faithful time wouldpass and officials would be
forced to recognize the growing rumors of death knocking on the
town stores. One such official Georgi oh the
village priest East would eventually connect the dots
between the growing Whispers of a corpse predicting death and
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the ravings of a Sleepless Widow, claiming nightly
incursions by her former husband.
Very man Giorgio had laid to rest nearly 16 years earlier.
Wait, wait, are we sure it just wasn't the priest going over
there and then and then raping her in the band.
Like, I think it was, it's a struggle.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what itwas.
It's just a struggle. Yeah, yeah.
Hey, maybe, maybe it became a great great, excuse later.
Also, I think she was a little bit too old for a priest taste
sexually, but It's just my opinion and history.
Anyways when the moment to act finally came the priesthood and
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wait on the corpses nightly pathhours would grow and pass into
the Silence of the early morningbefore just as he expected
Giorgio began to hear a loud gasping between footsteps
starting to approach. Since the corpse of the grinning
your eye and got within a few feet, Giorgio spraying out in
front of him across in hand, shouting, quote bait Hull.
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Jesus Christ used to Gon Stop tormenting us, shocked by the
biblical, Ambush your his face filled with tears and he ran off
into the night. Isn't this in Croatia?
Yeah. But I still like to picture him
as like a Southern Baptist preacher because it's just big
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gone. Strict Koya strings.
Oh no it is a big Don beef stroganoff.
Yeah. Get on out of here.
Go on get well. Now as a side note well there
have been tons of references forthousands of years all over the
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world to creatures and entities fitting the description of a
vampire. This moment when Giorgio calls
your a Astra gone, though, a little corny is, in fact, the
earliest recorded use of the literal word vampire.
That's why this is so, Don't well surprisingly somehow I
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don't know how it could possiblyhave happened but somehow the
hopes and prayers of Giorgio didn't stop purees reign of
terror and Kringle. I know I'm shocked too.
So after the people of the Town gave the church in the chance to
find out, it's like that. I'm not shocked.
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This is like, of course. This story, you know?
But this is you'll see at the end of this.
Why that moment was so significant, not just for the
name, drop the first name drop, which is really confusing,
because he literally just made up a word, whatever.
(09:02):
But the first name drop, like why that moment is so
significant in vampire history, but any is so after the people
of the Town gave the church, a chance only to find deaths.
Promise still coming nightly a man by the name.
Name of mijo Redick. Decided to put an end to this
town's Undead. Burden, yes, his name is
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literally mijo, mijo, rallied a small group of local villagers,
and set out into the night, eventually hunting down your a
and attempting to stabbed him inthe chest with a branch made of
Hawthorne, it didn't work, the branch wouldn't penetrate your
skin. And in the confrontation, all
that would happen is you're a would slip away and Scurry off
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into the night, stick-wielding vigilante.
Is pissed off shaking their fists.
Wow, odd. So the next day, a new plan of
attack was made and that night ahit squad of nine men including
up beside you and the guys from the previous night who I guess
technically count as the first official vampire Hunters.
(10:08):
Set off to finish the job this time.
Like what is wild little van helsing's over there?
That's what I was gonna say. For real, hmm.
Well this time they went straight to the Town Cemetery
and dug up the coffin of Yoda Grand.
Do once open the men step back and shocked though, it had been
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16 years since his death. You're a appeared to be sleeping
peacefully grin on his face and no signs of decomposition.
Stepping forward, the priest yelled out more commands from
God and made several failed attempts to lunch.
Another steak made of Hawthorn Interiors chest, he then tried
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to do a quick exorcism on Yorubafor making even more failed
attempts with the wooden stake. Well at some point after
watching what had to have lookedlike a group of uncle's trying
to get a stuck lug nut off of a car wheel and me try it.
Hmm. Yep, God damn it.
Let me try. Nope, God damn it one, man,
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steep on Mill. Assic said let me try, he then
walked up to the coffin. Pulled out his saw and started
trying to cut off your his head Jesus.
That's not right. We're doing.
He said let me try and he just didn't go through his neck.
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So just gotta saw this fucker, everybody knows the way to a
vampire's heart is through its goddamn neck.
Yeah, well Legend has it that onthe first cut your is I shot
open any letter. An ear-splitting scream before
blood started gurgling from his mouth as stipend kept sawing
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further, and further into his neck until finally, his head was
removed after this act of desecration hearing.
Never again roamed, The Village streets, the town, finally found
peace. And from this moment on
decapitating, the hand became one of the go-to solutions for
anyone. Rised by strigoi.
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I would imagine that. That would stop anybody.
Yeah, well, go for the head. It is, it Team America World
Police or what the hell is that movie where they're like, ah,
they're powerless without their hands.
Yeah, it might have been Mars Attacks.
I don't remember there's some movie that just really isn't.
(12:46):
It's so brilliant, where they'rejust look who they're they're
powerless without their heads. That was literally Only this
moment, Joe. He's looking it up, Jimmy, keep
going. What do we got?
What do we got? He's probably watching football
right now. It's Scary Movie 3.
Fuck yes. Another genius.
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Peace and cinematic history. Hashtag winning.
It is it really is the Wayans brothers with the shit like full
of respect. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Well, other than the use of the word stroke own right, which
over in Croatia. It's Same word as strigoi its
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vampire, it's the closest damn thing.
Like in linguistic history to the word vampire was the first
use other than the use of the word.
This story solidified so much ofwhat will later become cannon in
the Legends of vampires, right? And so the more that I read
about the somewhere that it started to dawn on me, I was
like, wow, these seemingly comedic moments.
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Honestly really did just grow over the next 400 plus years.
Into What We Now. Understand as the legend of the
vampires sleeping in a coffin, during the day only coming out
at night. Never aging, or decomposing
sexual lust, even the less significant moments would go on
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to become exaggerated and evolved into having deeper roles
in vampire mythology, for instance, the reaction, you're a
had to Giorgio confronting him with a cross when it happened.
Yuri just started crying before scaring away.
This moment in the story mutatedover time, and has grown to
include a whole realm of Legendsbehind it.
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The shriek of Terror when somebody holds across to a
vampire burning them with. Holy water, that belief that a
vampire can't set foot on Hallowed Ground, like going into
a church, the archetype of a vampire hunting priest, all of
these things came from this moment, even the use of a wooden
stake it literally never worked but this part of the story has
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become a So type, I can't even count the number of times and
movies where I've seen someone break the leg off of a chair and
sharpen it before fighting a vampire.
Like, that's just a thing that always happens in vampire movie.
And if you watched Buffy at all,she literally has like a
backpack. Full of just wouldn't steaks.
It is, yeah, like this is such athing.
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But like these comical moments, grew like that, right?
To be fair, the only branches weren't sharpened So they were I
know when he was saying that they couldn't get it.
Yeah it's like there was a reason I was imagining like just
a flat on both sides piece of wood and they're like it's not
going in guys and like just they're crying.
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They're like literally like they're like holding the branch
sideways, trying to shove it into his chest a bit.
Like why won't this slapping with it?
Well, all of this stuff, the religious symbolism and like,
how that would evolve that stereotype of the priest.
That's hunting vampires. I mean, shit like what is it?
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I think it's the Lost Boys whereit's like a super soaker filled
with holy water like you know like all of these things just
compounded from this moment in the mid-1600s right and it's
just fed to me that's absolutelyfascinating like finding that
moment in history where everything evolved in spiraled
from Every Time I Think of the Lost Boys.
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I'm just like it reminds me of like they're like, oh you like
eating maggots when they got himlike white rice and then it
makes me think of what we do in the shadows where they feed
them. Spaghetti basghetti has Getty in
there like some basket there, like you like eating worms and
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then like everybody freaks out and then the new vampire tries
to do it to them with french fries.
And they're like, it does, it just works with things that are
Ready. Kind of look like, worms.
What are you doing? That's funny.
I fucking love what we do in theshadows.
Yeah, two great movies Lost Boys.
And yeah, Shadows. Well, this all brings us to the
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original, Legends surrounding the strigoi.
They have a tail covered in longhair horse.
Hooves for feet a large mouth and hairy hands.
They can transform not just intobats, but any number of animals,
including rabbits wolves, dogs, cats, owls, rats and cockroaches
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as a sorry. The first along with regular was
that that first description justsounded like A fucking horse.
Yeah, a little bit. Okay, it's like a horse.
A horse is a strigoi, but he canalso be a bunny voice course
boy. Spooky horse or spooky bunny.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless he is a
strigoi, so it's this thing likenot human like it's like Undead.
It's Undead like a zombie or a vampire kind of.
It's so and, and we're about to,like, dig into this a little bit
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when we get into the types of struggling.
Oh my God, but I think, oh yeah,no, not, there's types, A whole
fucking, there's a whole catalog.
And this is what's interesting is.
So like at least to me, was going through the types and
learning about the different types of strigoi.
I How like Bram Stoker, when he like, when he created Dracula,
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he went through and cherry-picked write the
different ways that they attack the different ways that they
appear. They'll like behavior, all these
different things he went through, and Cherry Picked all
the different types of these. These entities that existed for
hundreds and thousands of years before he wrote Dracula and he
was like and a little bit of youand a little bit of you and a
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little bit of you and put them all together.
That is a vampire. So like What we see as the
modern vampire, vampire has incredibly long complex history
of like a multiplicity of beings.
Right. It's almost like if you took all
of the Greek gods and put them into one and then said that they
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were born on Christmas and then you proceed, it have Easter
because the got resurrected 08 that's Christianity but like
it's kind of like that but with a month.
Yeah I mean you got your different types, you got your
head. Words, you got your blades, you
got your Tom Cruise is late. You know, you got all the
different kinds of vampires out there that you're kind of hits.
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You know and whether your team Tom your team Brad your team,
you know Edward you know just met water import.
Yeah. Yeah we don't support Jake.
So wait, I just want to point out.
Edward has been a vampire for like thousands of years and in
their house they have like a thing of all the high schools.
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He's Curated and I'm just saying, why the fuck would you
go to high school for a thousandyears?
Yeah, why not? Because you went to the Bronx,
you know, I mean that must be the first he explains it to
because like he's like, I'm justlike picking up under each
chicks. No, I do.
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You know what they say about howschool girls?
He's literally the guy from thatmovie.
You know, what they say about high school girls?
Atma cotton older and they stay the same age.
Yes they do. Yes, they do.
He should have said that is Edward Cullen.
I know, I know you should set upand know it was just like an
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inside joke for them. Like, I mean, what else are they
gonna do? Thousands of years to figure
that out with adults, possibly. I mean yeah, high school kids
and I mean he never liked dated anyone else like you never that
Bella was on video about the baby.
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Very careful she's saying so so he didn't date any other miners
you didn't he didn't he got her pregnant but also told her that
he wanted to eat her so it was kind of abusive and not really
safe for her. And also we know that he didn't
date anyone because he says so, but we're going to believe him.
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That is true. We should not believe men.
When they say, it's always actions and not words.
Well, anybody, so anybody when I've literally spent the past,
like, week week and a half, justlike going through and, like,
just just finding the most obscure content, online of,
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like, photocopied books that were in, like, borderline
ancient like Romanian and Austrian and Croatian, and like
using that to like, use like an optical character recognition
software to identify the letters.
Then I could run it through the Google translate, and then I
could go through and like, correct, the text and figure
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out, like, what is the fucking origin?
What is the, the fucking like birth of the goddamn modern
vampire? I want the placenta on my face,
like, show me when it fucking happened.
Like, I've been Diggin. Alright watch Twilight, right?
Yeah. Now I've been fucking in there
and then Twilight came up and I'm like, man the whole time I
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was just like, push that thoughtout of your head Gil.
That's not Going to happen. These people respect history.
But hey you know, no no it's allabout file.
I skid hey Twilight was made long enough ago.
That it is part of History. Yeah that's right.
Ask all the millennial women here, right?
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And I just found myself ashamed of History.
So deep into like even the natives, you know, like the
whole wolf thing. Dang, that's history.
Bella Where Have You Been loca loca.
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Don't know where the fuck we were, but let's get back in.
All right. So as I said they can transform
not just in the bats, right? But any number of animals?
Including rabbits wolves, dogs, cats, owls, rats cockroaches
along. With regularly targeting
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specific parts of their own family.
And this is something that separates them from the way that
we generally view vampires. A strigoi will regularly attack
members or sections or areas of its own family, almost
exclusively, right? They do this along with
tormenting towns by causing wheat, crop failures emptying
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fruit from Orchards. And I've read enough accounts of
them by now, to confirm this, Stealing the feet off of cows.
Hmm, it's their equipment. I have no clue what that means
because they have they're like oh damn how do you steal the
foot off of a cow brown cow stunning, you do like that one
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guy, didn't you take a hacksaw to it?
And you just hack off them legs because people actually they
just not at the Grand Union, no tree.
All the other stuff makes sense.So right if you're if you're
what if they're just very strong, if you're coming at and
chop it off with their hands, a blade strigoi, just comes in
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with his sword, but like, all the other stuff makes sense to
me. Because like, you know, if
you're, if you're having bad shit happened back in the 1600s
1700s, 1800s, whatever, and you're like, goddamn strigoi,
came in town and fuck shit up, you know, it's like the crops
failed, there was a drought, youknow, hail He number of things,
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you'd blame that but like how many times did the feet of
people's cows? Go missing that that became part
of the legend of what struggle is do because it's shit happens.
And people are say, people wouldsay, that's a strigoi.
If you don't believe in them, then it's like something
happens. And I must have been the strigoi
last night. We're cows feet going missing
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like what? Maybe does this need to be an
episode. I'm confused like go out to
check on the horses early in themorning and see that they're
wearing dress shoes and they're like, huh, something's wrong and
then they go and check in there.Like, where are your feet?
And their human feet instead? Whoa, I'm scared.
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Let's see. Mr. Goal is, you were gonna be
the shoe model that helped us raise up in the family and
become famous. What are we gonna do now,
forecast? How is our only cows account?
Kind of make it without these only cows?
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They are addicted to sex and cancause they're hypnotized victims
to go mad with Obsession. They avoid garlic, onions, and
incense. So they live in fear of Italian
hippies they are most active anddangerous on two specific nights
out of the year. The eve of st.
Andrew's day, which is the Romanian winter, solstice,
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November 30th and on the Spring Equinox.
And these nights, the strigoi are said to come out and gather
it. Sort of Undead Fight Club kind
of situation where they beat theshit out of each other.
It's everything from wooden batstwo swords the victor of this
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Unholy Rumble receives the honorof getting to do the most harm
to the Village. They torment hell yeah.
Another fascinating aspect of the strigoi is that there are
wide range of types. The shrieking sugoi who call out
the name of the one they want tokill.
If the person answers they will die within a few days.
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A common belief about these types of strigoi is that they
can only yell out there would bevictim's name once which has led
to it becoming common practice, even to this day that somebody
else your name. You should never answer the
first time. Go the knocking, strigoi. they
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can only knock once, if someone responds by asking, say who's
there or opens the door then that person will die within the
next few days, the famish degruywho like a serial, killer with a
victim type, craves eating a certain type of person, such as
say, little girls, young men, Etc, The burden struggle I found
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in the forest or near the edge of a river.
They live trapped in a specific area until they are able to
climb onto someone's back and get carried out.
Once they are free, the one who carried them will soon die and
the stroke oil then wreak havoc on the town, it was taken to the
nightmare. Strigoi attacks people in their
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sleep by the ripping out their stomach, crushing them or
suffocating them. Famous version of this involves
children who have died who, if they come back a strigoi will
sit on top of the chest of theirparents, trying to suffocate
them in their sleep. That's normal I guess.
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Yeah. I imagine that the the knockings
to grow would be really shitty. Knock knock joke.
Tellers. Because they just feel like
knock. And the person would just be
waiting the whole time just being like Knock-Knock.
Waiting for the knock knock Lariat.
So yeah. No one's going to say, who's
there? Yeah, they're just waiting
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unless they're just, you know, the Romanians are just terrible
and jokes and they're just like,knock, who's there?
Oh, dang it. Not again.
Yeah. Can we go back to the fact that
they are addicted to? X.
Because how can they be addictedto sex if they're basically
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dead? And the fact that they don't
have feelings rigor? Mortis?
Well, yeah, well, it's like a supernatural being so like
they're able to walk around as if they're alive and stuff like
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that and just like that story that we heard.
Heard about that guy. That terrorizes town for 16
years, like he raped his wife regularly when he was, you know,
above ground, you know, being a strigoi.
Yeah. Like, it doesn't have anything
to do with like feelings or anything like that, and like, if
you meant like physical feelingsthan I think they are able to
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have physical feelings, because when that guy cut off his head,
he opened his eyes, he realized something was going on So yeah I
hope that answers your question.Thank you Selina.
And I know that that's like it. That is a really good question
because it kind of brings me to something that like I've been
having a very hard time understanding but honestly I
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found is like one of the most fascinating things, researching
this case which is that in Eastern Europe for a long long
time before Christianity kind oflike came in and was like Hey
fuck all your pagan holidays. This is the New shit.
We're just going to move it a day ahead or a day behind and
relabel it as something that involves a saint right.
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It used to be common belief and large areas of Eastern Europe,
where, where Romania is, we're Transylvania is the home of
Dracula, right? That people had two Souls, And
that to me is like it's so it's so underwhelming when you first
hear it. But then, when you stop to think
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about it, at least for me, it was just endlessly, fascinating,
right? The mechanics behind having two
Souls. I've never come across any
beliefs, any cultures, write anyreligious systems where they
actually believe a human being has two separate.
Souls 2, distinct Souls existingwithin their body.
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It's always one. Every single time.
It's always you have one Soul that's just with you, you die
and it goes on to whatever form of afterlife or non afterlife or
gets reincarnated or something like that.
But it's always one. I've never come across the
belief system where it has to hmm and from what I've been able
to understand and I don't, you know, make the claim to have an
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understanding of an entire systems intricacy, right?
Is that in the Waking Life? You have a soul that's
completely independent from you,that's not your personality.
It's a completely separate life that leaves when you go to sleep
at night and has its own goddamnlife.
Like literally you have a soul that leaves when you go to sleep
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and has its own experience, has its own life.
And then when you die, There's aseparate Soul, not that first
one, that then goes on to whatever afterlife.
And I do want to make a distinction here to and feel
like Selena might have been thrown up a finger on this.
There is two spirit belief, right in many of the First
Nations belief systems in the United States, this is
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completely separate like this isnot saying that you embody
whatever a culture might view asmasculine and feminine right?
In terms of traditional roles and Yada yada yada around
genders. This is no, literally, two
separate Souls doing two, separate things that exist
within your body. And so, Four stroke or EV right
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for the living strigoi. That is the dream version of
somebody that can be controlled and sent off into the world when
somebody transforms into a strigoi.
But for the strigoi mort, right?That is when somebody dies and
they become a strigoi, that is the strigoi.
That is the undead that's almostlike a zombie, right?
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And that is the spirit that comes about or exist when you
die that is supposed to go on toan afterlife.
I don't know the mechanics behind And this are fucking
insane and they're so foreign tomy understanding of how the
world is supposed to work in life and afterlife.
But if anybody listening to thisknows anything about this, this
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duality of souls, right? This system behind it.
Seriously, hit us up contact at Black Cat dot report or hit us
up on Instagram at Black Cat report.
Super easy to find us but I am incredibly fascinated.
And I have not had enough time to dig into it.
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Well, but that said enough aboutall that, let's get to another
tale. This one a little more recent
and to be honest in my opinion deserving of its own episode.
You see, we dig into and research these cases up to the
moment, we record each one like a weekly Obsession.
And in this case I discovered old books, photocopied, and
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published online. That I've been running through
Google translate. Now maybe I'm just geeking out
here, but what I'm about to tellyou, Tell you is fucking crazy
and I want to know, do you want us to do an episode about it?
If so stick around to the end and I'll tell you how to vote in
a secret poll, okay? Now let's Dive In so unlike your
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a, a strigoi mort who became transformed after his death, our
next case involves a young girl from Romania, twelve-year-old,
Eleonora Zoo gun, Well, Eleanor,it does not fit the typical
description of a modern vampire.She does fall squarely into the
profile of a circle review. One who is gifted with Stricker
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Powers by the devil and transforms while still alive.
Now, what's interesting about Eleanor's story is not only when
and happened that but how well documented it was as Legend goes
in 1925. The Romanian Village of talpa,
had a bit of a situation on their hands.
A child from the village Eleonora suddenly had two
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objects floating around her, butthis wasn't just a one-off
event, though, it kept happeningand would ultimately lead to the
villagers labeling. Her a quote tool of the devil in
response. They locked her in a shed,
sentencing her to starve to death alone.
But by the time, the sentence was served word of the, young
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girl died already spread to other towns.
And in reach the ear of one was to look OC rosicki.
An Austrian Countess who just happened to have been traveling
through the area. The Countess who had a Love of
All Things, a cult in paranormalquickly, traveled to the village
and made a deal with the people.If they released Eleonora, she
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would adopt her and take her back to Vienna.
It's the relief of literally everyone involved.
They agreed and almost Disney like kind of movie scenario.
Eleonora started a new life in Vienna as an official member of
Austrian royalty. The shit's fucking in st.
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Well, it would be here under thecurious and caring, watch of
Countess wasel that ghosts are tacky that both paranormal
investigators and scientist would study the claim.
Ames surrounding Eleonora. This brings us now to the
accounts of Harry price. A ghost hunter from England, who
made the trip to Austria, just to investigate the young girls
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Powers. He wouldn't be disappointed
during his first visit with Eleonora Harry watched as the
toy. He brought her as a gift, broke
itself in front of everyone, while no one was touching it.
Then before the shock of this wore off Witnesses, watched as A
knife levitated off of a table. And then darted through the room
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narrowly passing Harry's head before lodging itself, into a
wood, door behind him. After that seemingly random
objects, both big and small began lifting off of the ground,
moving around the room and smashing into the walls.
That's crazy. This is fucking nuts.
I'm sorry. This is fucking that's like an
evil Matilda. Hmm, I know, right?
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Until they could have used her powers for evil.
Well clearing up any doubt. He may have had this first
meeting with Eleanor would end with Harry making an arrangement
with the Countess and short timeHarry would be in charge of
regularly testing and studying the young girls powers in the
countess's official Laboratory. Again, she was all about this
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shit, you know. Before this happened, she found
or she heard about the girl and quickly like rush to the Village
to see what was up. Saw the way they were treating
her arms like no. No, like she's special.
I'll straight up adopter. I will adopt her and take her
away from you and all the villagers are like, please.
We technically don't want to kill a little girl, but she's
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evil is fuck. Please take her away.
And the little girl just like straight up, went from a
situation of like, what's all this shit floating around me,
20. I'm being locked into a shed to
tie two, I guess I'm basically aprincess.
Now, the crazy, this is, I like to imagine this is over the
course of like 12 hours. This is the most Disney
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situation you can imagine. If that happened to me, I would
be so scared that, like I had actually died and that I was
like, this was like not real. Yeah, this your dream like just
some beautiful. Ian like royalty woman just like
I'd come here, sweetie. I'm taking you away from all
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this, I'd be like, oh shit, I die.
It's this technically how all the Christmas Story?
Start the Christmas. Hallmark movies.
Start. Yeah.
No that's why. I'll this is I've the documents
I found after writing this portion of the script like she
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adopts an official royal title and she straight up
historically, does become a partof Austrian Royal Tang.
This is real and like I found parapsychological like
magazines. Like the early 1900's on
arxiv.org and a number of other websites where the folks that
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I'm talking about here are writing reports back to England
and saying this is what happenedthis week.
This is what we tested, this is what we still like there was so
much behind Eleonora, right thisthis fucking happen and this is
I don't know. This is a rabbit hole that I was
like I don't have time to go down but holy shit.
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The sounds insane. Yeah.
Yeah, it definitely needs its own episode.
It does it does. In my opinion, it does.
Well during this research, it would be documented that Elinor
was not only gifted with Advanced abilities in the realm
of telekinesis. But also regularly covered in
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strange red marks, and B, that would seemingly just appear out
of thin air when asked where themarks came from, Eleanor would
reply, quote Note, the B saw thework of the devil.
And that was it, I mean straightup like on point.
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She's like 12 and she's just like the ask her and she's just
like it's the devil. It is what it is, is what it is,
is nuts, that's crazy. Wild devil, It's the devil.
Anyways block, block, block train, train train, he just
playing. Now, as promised.
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Well that said let's move on to our last case.
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This one involving a subject that no tail of a would be
complete without and that is strictly Hunters.
Mmm, as to be expected for as long as there have been strict,
Boyd, terrorizing communities. There is also been those who
rise up and fight back some evenmaking it a profession.
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This brings us now to the well-publicized case of a body
being being desecrated in Romania.
Only 19 years ago. Hmm, you see in late 2003.
A 76 year old man by the name ofPete.
Ray Toma was riding home on his horse drawn, carriage through
rule Romania. After what Witnesses described
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as a long night of drinking, At some point on his journey home.
The intoxicated man fell off hisseat and was crushed by the
Hooves and wheels of his horse drawn.
Carriage after a short period oftime, he teratomas laid to rest
in a local Cemetery, or at least.
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That's what locals had first thought so soon.
After Petrus, passing his sisterbegan, experiencing Extreme
Weight Loss from an unknown disease as well as An intense
series of Night. Terrors regularly screaming out,
quote. He's on top of me.
He's eating me. He's killing me.
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Her symptoms grew so extreme andso detrimental that her husband
Peter has brother-in-law reachedout to a sheep herder who lived
on the edge of town. A 67 year old man named Erica
Patricia. Sorry, y'all doing my best.
I can doing the best again. America was well known in the
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area for being skilled. In the old ways educated in the
methods of dealing with the types of phenomenon.
The family had grown to suspect,a strigoi, by the time of his
arrival at their home. It was early 2004 and The
Afflicted woman's condition, hadonly been growing worse, it was
obvious to all those present thetime to act was now.
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So after a long night of drinking the men of the
household took off towards the local Cemetery.
Once they arrived, they dug up the grave of betray Toma, open
the casket and discovered a body.
Not only showing few, if any signs of decomposition, but a
small trail of blood dripping from the edge of his mouth.
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At the sight of this anomaly Miracle, lifted a pitchfork and
struck into the chest of the corpse cutting through the rib
cage and revealing, The still-beating heart of P3, he
then proceeded to cut the heart loose from the body, fill the
coffin with cloves, of garlic, and bring the heart, to the
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nearest Cross Roads in town where he burned it until it was
just a pile of Ash. After this, he took the ash back
to the family's house, mixed it with water, and gave it to the
second woman to drink. She did and within days, her
illness was gone and the family finally settled thing piece is
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that Exactly said that's disgusting.
Yeah it's literally like a hard Ash T that's that's what
happening Russians. And people are sick of the
Kardashians. Well, the story doesn't end
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there after a close family. Member received news of Peter
days, body being dug up and tornapart.
She contacted the town's local authorities.
Once they arrived, they quickly confirmed her worst fears.
He threw his body was completelydecapitated.
His chest was torn open and the entire coffin was filled with
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garlic. The school case quickly went to
trial in the parties involved were charged with up to six
months in prison for the desecration of the body during
trial. Something happened, not only did
everyone involved completely ownup to their actions stating that
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they wouldn't hesitate to do theexact same thing again, if
needed. But citizens of the Town spoke
up stating that they also witnessed the torment caused by
the strigoi and that they to supported the actions of the men
on trial. By the time, the case was over
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the defendants were released with no jail time, just a small
fine and renewed a tradition, which would take hold all
throughout the area to stake theheart of everyone.
Laid to rest on the day of theirfuneral that's messed up.
And this is now the current practice, the current tradition,
(48:29):
the current reality for sectionsof Romania, who deal with the
strigoi, It's up to you to decide if this is folklore.
But for me, I'm a little bit on the fence.
These folks 100% believe it, I've watched hours of babushkas.
(48:53):
Just talking about what they've been dealing with since they
were kids and I kind of always have a hard time like looking at
somebody in their eyes when it'sperson after person and they
just say like this is what I experienced.
This is what I went through and that's the only kind of like Off
the Wall thing that they would say to you, you know, I don't
(49:13):
know, let us know. But It's just as legit as
anything else. Yeah, I just got the image.
Once you said that like it's common practice now to do that
to everybody. Just imagine like at that open
casket. They're like all right say
goodbye to Grandma is steak steak to the heart.
(49:40):
Hey you ever coming back now? And then bonjour, you gave
garlic. A bad name, Brown around to
predators. Yeah, pretty much it.
(50:02):
This is trippy though because like we have to picture that
like part of the world like a fair section of the global
population. Straight up believes, right?
That they deal with this on a regular basis that this is 100%
reality changing changing their life changing the way they react
(50:26):
to their own name. The way they answered their
door, the way, like everything around it is just like no, no,
no, don't do that. No, no don't do that down to
burial rituals which are a majorpart of straw real or like so
much of stir. Corey Moore is basically like
the person was in Buried properly.
Properly. Right?
I wasn't going to get into the very very long and convoluted
(50:48):
details of like burial traditionbecause in any culture it's very
long and very convoluted. But in Romania if you fuck up at
any point basically you got a vampire on your hands.
You have a strigoi coming back to town being like you fucked
up, homie? Time to kill some motherfuckers,
right? And so now in modern times, and
(51:09):
the areas of Romania where they still believe in, Goalie or deal
with strigoi. However, you want to view it.
It's become common practice oncethe modern world has mixed with
the old beliefs to just ceremoniously like maybe drive a
stake through their heart on theday of their burial.
(51:29):
So that you don't have to go back and dig a motherfucker up
and do it. And piss off the whole family
that like, their body has been like a dog up and left out in
the cemetery. It's just like, no, no.
It's gonna Final Touch here and Tink Tink Tink.
All right. Cool, put him down in the
ground, right? That's how strong it is.
(51:52):
And so I guess I got asked the question is like at what point
when a large enough number of people believe and take actions
towards something, Is there likely something?
Maybe not exactly what they believe, but something there, I
don't know. I don't know.
First of interesting, it's interesting.
(52:14):
First thought that comes to mindis racism and I'm like, no,
there's nothing there. Yeah.
Do it's literally just Romanianstalking about Romanians.
I mean, I don't know. It's nothing.
I meant the idea. Like if so many people you said,
if so many people have this belief like, you know, yeah.
How can we say that? There's nothing there but like
(52:36):
in racism, a lot of that's perfect the same beliefs but
there really isn't anything there.
Yeah totally. That's that's 100%. 100% legit,
right? That's 100% legit.
But It does build the topic. It does build a question, it
does build something that becomes a conversation
(52:57):
regardless of what side you fallon.
It's like well this is somethingthat we're dealing with at this
point, right. And like the fact that you know,
there's been so many accounts back to biblical days some
proverbs 30 15. Where like if you look at modern
translations of the Bible, it's straight-up references of
(53:19):
vampire. Higher right.
I don't know, I don't know. Maybe, maybe there's a gang of
ninety-year-old babushkas that are totally saving us from Hell
flowing over. Who knows I'm saying is shits
wild, and thank you to that entire culture in that entire
(53:40):
history for giving us Dracula and vampires, which we all know
are the cats of the Paranormal world, Peace, please.
Thank you for listening to the black cat report in our episode
on this trip boy has please likereview and follow us wherever
(54:02):
you get your podcasts Gil. And I are working on a new show
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