罗马尼亚的“斯特里戈伊”：死后不躺着的人

In Romanian villages, there is a word called “Strigoi”, and there are two types.

One is living: children born with certain oddities, such as those born with a caul, the seventh child, or those with a slightly longer tailbone, are thought to possibly become Strigoi. While they are alive, their souls go out at night to harm people; when livestock die or crops are ruined, it is often blamed on them.

The other is the dead: after being buried, they come out of their graves in the middle of the night, return home, and suck the blood of their family members and livestock. Once someone in a village falls ill mysteriously one after another, people suspect there may be a Strigoi.

How to deal with it? Dig up the grave, check if the corpse has decayed, if the face is red, and if there is blood around the mouth. If so, drive a wooden stake into the heart, or remove the heart and burn it, mix the ashes with water, and give it to the sick person to drink.

Until the twentieth century, people in remote villages in Romania still did this. In February 2004, in a southern village called Marotinu de Sus, a family suspected that their recently deceased relative Petre was causing trouble because people in the house kept falling ill. They dug up his grave in the middle of the night, removed his heart, and burned it. The police later intervened and prosecuted several people for desecrating a corpse.

The villagers said they were not harming people, but saving them.

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