S01E03 Blood is Life

10/26/21 • 21 min

We all know thousands of stories about most famous bloodsucking creature there is, a vampire. Pop culture embraced them in its fullness, folktales enriched them, music, art, books and even cartoons took them to a completely new level, making them maybe even less scary than they ought to be and certainly so much more romantic. It is a creature known to people from ancient times and cultures and to so many different parts of the world, but what if I told you two Slavic countries claim the first vampire ever?
Episode written, edited and hosted by Karmen
Guest appearance - Dimitrije Denic @slavic_history_mythology
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Sources:
Matthew Bunson (1993). The Vampire Encyclopedia. London: Thames & Hudson
Frombald (1725). Copia eines Schreibens aus dem Gradisker District in Ungarn
Milovan Glišić (1880). (After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic
Vinšćak, Tomo (December 2005). "Štrige", "Štriguni" and "Krsnici"
Studia ethnologica Croatica. Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Oral traditions

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S01E02 The Stroke of Noon

It seems ancient Slavs found a monster for every part of the year, month or day and you are never safe. The darkness is always there, even in the broad daylight. You just have to find it before it finds you.
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Manfred Lurker, The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons
Dixon-Kennedy, Mike - Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend
Tom McGowen. Encyclopedia of Legendary Creatures. Rand McNally
Jones, Prudence; Pennick, Nigel. A History of Pagan Europe

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S01E04 Black Queen

There once was a Queen who lived in the castle on the hill.

She was the most beautiful queen the country had ever seen. Long black hair framed her face and her white skin highlighted her aristocratic lineage, which went back a long way.

But at the very mention of their Queen, people trembled in fear.
This would certainly have been another story of kings and queens and their disputes at the court if Barbara hadn't been regarded as a witch, a heretic, an alchemist, a murderer, a torturer and lastly as a vampire..
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-Alkemijski pokusi kraljice Barbare Celjske, SNJEŽANA PAUŠEK-BAŽDAR, Antropološki centar HAZU, 2016, Zagreb

In Search of the Lesbian Vampire: Barbara von Cilli, Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and the Dragon Order, Raymond T. McNall, 2001

PP Medvednica / NP Plitvička jezera

Many thanks to my dear friend Gabrijela on sending her private notes about Black Queen.

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