SLAVIC 2230 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Taboo, Witchcraft, Soul
30 Mar 2019
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The monster responds to what the culture needs/creates. Vampires diaries vs noserfertus > attractive vs ugly. Image of nosferatu has passed and now we want to be with the vampires. The desired monster, not new appeared in the 60s (sexual revolution), but the idea of there being new necessary evil in the vampire is new. X vampires (people/things that secretly drain away x) Borrowed from german vampyr, itself borrowed from serbian vampir or cognate words in other slavic languages (where it was inherited from proto- Rooted in peasant folklore - low social class working for land lord subsistence farmers. In the czech republic, dug up corpse they believed to be a vampire. Fear was strong enough to make them act. Body was buried face down and the adjacent graves had people buried facing up. Vampire is a body possessed by either its corrupted soul after death or by a demons. Found two corpses with wooded stakes through heart.
