SLAVIC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sleep Paralysis, Natural Evil, Abstract And Concrete
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The soul is an is an immortal being that animates or gives life to a physical body. Without a sou body will have no life. Pregnant women have 2 souls - hers and the baby"s a. Soul leaves the body after the third day of death - death doesn"t happen unless it leaves th body a. Vampire is the body that a soul or demon came back to to reanimate it. The soul makes a long journey to the other world after it leaves the body in death. The journey takes 40 days after the burial a. b. c. 40 days and 40 nights in the arc. The souls stained with unjustfiable sins are reluctant to go to the other world. Held back by bad relations with the living, causing them to return (vampirism). Worried about family survival (vam that come back to help wives). Souls could be carried away by animals or wind.