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Dear Followers,
Should I come back? I’m considering it. But Tumblr still seems pretty negative and draining. And I am just not sure whether or not I should put my energy back into it.
-Ivan
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The Medieval Vampire Pirate Mayor of Sozopol, Bulgaria
Because of where his grave was located, Bulgarian historians believe that this man was one of the 14th century medieval mayors of Sozopol, specifically a man by the name of Krivich. He is known to have been a pirate, a thief and overall ne’er–do–well in Sozopol during the Middle Ages. As mayor, he was incompetent when it came to defending the town from a siege and as a result, the town was overrun by the Genoese.
His skeleton had an iron plowshare unceremoniously jammed into its chest. Apparently the townsfolk had had enough of him and didn’t want him returning from the dead. Iron was used to pierce the corpses of the wealthy while wood was used for common folk. People who had the potential to become a vampire were those in power positions; clerics, leaders, aristocrats and intellectuals. If they abused their power in life then the townspeople would suspect that they may rise again and take action to prevent it.
Vampires weren’t an invention of the middle ages however; they had long been known to the people of eastern Europe but by another name, the strigoi. The strigoi mythology dates back to the ancient Dacians (1st century BC). They were an Indo-European people, related to the Thracians. Ancient Dacia was located in the area in and around the Carpathian Mountains and east to the Black Sea. This area includes Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of Ukraine, Eastern Serbia, Northern Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
The strigoi were creatures of Dacian mythology, evil spirits of the dead whose actions made them unworthy of entering the kingdom of Zalmoxis. Since these stories were transmitted only by oral tradition, the legend has lost its original substance, and modern myths have transformed strigoi into the bloodthirsty vampires as we know them today.
More about the undead in general…
More about the Strigoi…
More about Dacia…
More about Dacian mythology (Paleo-Balkan mythology)…
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My favorite time travel paradox: You go back in time to 1919, and bring with you a book containing some short stories written by Hemingway in the 30s. You support yourself in the 1919 world by publishing those stories — under your own name — in some little magazine. (Of course, I know you’d never actually do such a thing, but this is a thought-experiment.) A few years later, Ernest Hemingway, at a low ebb in his life, needing money desperately, and, not drunk enough or sober enough to write, decides to plagiarize those stories, since they were published in an obscure, almost unknown magazine. So he does, and they eventually become part of the Hemingway canon. The question is: Who wrote the stories? Looks to me like no one did.
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Sudičky in Czech and Slovak | Sudjaje in Serbian | Rodzanice in Polish | Sojenice or Rojenice in Slovenian | are very similar to Greek Moirai and basically the Fates of Slavic mythology
Sudička is an old woman spinner who approaches cradles of every newborn child and foretells their fate. They come in three: the first has a big bottom lip from the continuous salivating the thread, the second has an inch-wide thumb from holding the knot and the third has a huge foot from pedalling on the spinning wheel. The child can never escape its fate - be it bad or good.
The cult of worshipping group of three woman can be traced back to the 1-5 century A. In North-Western Europe they were called “mothers” or “matronas” (a dignified older woman), depicted with Germanic and Gaul inscriptions.
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