Vampire In Slavic Mythology

This is one recorded event from 1920’s in small village Tupanari, in present day Republika Srpska entity.

Old farmer Paja Tomić died on April 9^th this year. Just after he died his wife Cvija started complaining that her dead husband comes at night, and runs through the house. There were those who believed Cvija, there were those who didn’t, but she stayed with her story that her husband turned into vampire and that he comes every night. 

Paja’s sons Stevo and Krsto called everyone from the village for a meeting. They all agreed that vampire needs to be destroyed. They all went to the cemetery led by Paja’s sons. Some brought wood for bonfire, others  brought hawthorn stakes. They dug up the body, pierced it with the stake and threw it in bonfire. After the body was burned, they scattered the ashes, and threw remaining bones back into the grave...

REFERENCES:

Veselin Čajkanović / Mit i religija u Srba(Myth and religion within Serbs), SKZ, Beograd, 1973

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