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Vjesci

Poznat i kao: wupji, opji, Kashubian vampire, Vampyr of Kashubia

The vjesci is the vampire of the Kashubians of Pomerania, a person marked for undeath by being born with a caul. After burial the corpse chews its own shroud and limbs, then kills its family in order of kinship and at last the whole parish by tolling the bell. Kashubian households tried to prevent it at birth by feeding the powdered caul to the child. It combines the shroud-eating of German lore with the walking, feeding corpse of the Slavic vampire.1

⚔️ Bori se protiv njega
Podrijetlo
Kashubian (northern Poland)
Poljska
Što ga uzrokuje
Ostalo
A destiny fixed at birth: a child born with a caul will rise after death unless the caul is dealt with.
Kako postaješ jedan od njih
Being born with a membrane like a little cap on the head and never having consumed it.
Inteligencija
Malo inteligencije
Slabe točke
  • prevention: the caul is dried, burned to powder and given to the child in milk
  • digging up the body and cutting off the head with a graveyard spade
terenske bilješke

Što kažu izvori

1

It first eats its own shroud and the flesh of its hands and feet1

2

It then devours the living, beginning with its closest kin and working outwards1

3

When no relatives are left it rings the church bells at night, and everyone within earshot dies1

4

Beheading with a sexton's spade stops the deaths1

5

The self-devouring in the grave links it to the German Nachzehrer1

Izvori

  1. The Vampyrs in Kashubia (from Temme, Die Volkssagen von Pommern und Rügen) - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles

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