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Thursday, September 1, 2016

SLAV 2301 Perkowksi Points: First Three (Country/ Region, Name, Attributes) Jan Perkowksi

- Author of Vampire Lore - Developed the vampire class, first taught at UT Austin - Formulated structural analysis of vampire Perkowski Points 1.) Country/ Region

- East European nationalities - East, West, South Slavs - Hungarians, Romanians, Turks, Greeks - “Coterritorial” nationalities- Romani Jews - Romani means man - Slavic Countries of Eastern Europe - East Slavs: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus - West Slavs: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia - South Slavs: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bulgaria

- Slavic Minorites - Kashubs in North Poland - Sorbs in Eastern Germany - Polbians in Western Germany (no longer a distinct identity) Traditional South Slavic People

- Agrarian Society: not nomatic, settled people Coterritorial Peoples

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Thursday, September 1, 2016 - Romani

- Jews - Romani and Vampires - Originated in India but have wandered over much of the world - They can be nomadic or settled, but usually do not marry outside their culture - Often hated by “hosts” - Absorbed and expanded slavic vampire beliefs, but may have brought their own from India Jews and Vampires

- Central European Jews: Estrie- A shape-shifting demon in female form who lived among humans and sucked their blood while the victim was sleeping (belief in 1400s)

- RANDO: Folklore is not always cohesive Variation in Vampire Beliefs

- There are regional differences in vampire beliefs - Even from village to village - Also vary at different times - The major aspects of the beliefs are constant and many of the social factors that motivate the beliefs are the same 2.) Name

- The basic term upyr’- Source of vampire - Known from the Baltic Sea (Kushabs) to Greece - Found in every Slavic language but slightly different in each one Etmology - Various Explanations of the term: swollen up, bad flying thing,not burnt, names of demons Other terms - Werewolf, sorcerer (vampire after death), tenjac (shadowy one)

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Thursday, September 1, 2016 Why so many terms?

- Taboo: By saying it, you are asking it to appear - Taboo Terms - A way of mentioning it without saying it: Darn instead of damn - 3.) Attributes What does it look like?

- Vampire of Contemporary and Western Culture - Handsome, appealing, pale, fangs

- The idea of sexiness does not appear to the folkloric vampire Red-faced, Not Pale

- They were getting blood thus the red Alcohol Abuse and Vampirism

- Heavy drinkers acquire a ruddy complexion - Excessive Behavior of Anything Viewed Negatively Conformity

- Promoted harmony - Excessive individualism was not accepted - Alcoholism was a thirst that would not die Bloated, not Thin

- The corpse is puffy and swollen: Bloated with fresh blood - Serbian emigrant: How do you know it’s a vampire- bloated with blood - They say that when they find a vukodlak in a grave, he is fat, swollen, and red with human blood

- The Kosovo Romani believe a corpse will become a vampire if swelled up before burial

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- Bulgarians, Macedonians, and Serbs believe vampires have no bones in early stages of existence, sometimes without arms or legs

- Bonelessness enable a vampire to creep through holes and crevices (bones left ) - Can roll around like ball - No cartilage in nose or only one nostril Visible or Invisible?

- In the Balkans, it was sometimes said that they were invisible except to people with sensitivities like children of vampires

- Serbs and Bulgarians: Vampires can appear as shadows or be felt as puffs of wind - Ukrainians believe they have red eyes and a unibrow - Slovakians believe two curls on their foreheads symbolize two souls - Carpathian Ukrainians: a hole behind one knee from which its soul flies out - Poles: gigantic in size, big head Tails

- Russians Ukrainians, Romanis: A trait of witches and wizards, babies born with tails were thought to be future vampires

- Fangs are rarely mentioned Other Weird Stuff

- Russians during seasonal celebrations impersonated “dead men” with large teeth made from parsnips, this vampire was made to kiss young girls

- Poland believes vampires have stingers on tongue - Russia believes they puncture arms and drain blood - Fangs are only in literary vampire - Not dressed in black, dressed in good clothes (buried in) Non-human Vampires

- Pumpkins and Watermelon - Farm equipment 4...