Cultural Questions, What do you wanna know? ask them here

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MrBubbles said:

sapphi_snake said:

This thread is a great ideea. I'll think of a question and answer later. Anyone who wants to know anything about Romanian culture can ask.

y do u all like to bite people and drink their blood?

Actually, Romanians stole our vampire thunder. First story of vampires comes from Serbia, not Romania. in fact, vampire comes from Serbian vampir , so its a Serbian word. Two famous vampire cases, the first to be officially recorded, involved the corpses of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole from Serbia. Plogojowitz was reported to have died at the age of 62, but allegedly returned after his death asking his son for food. When the son refused, he was found dead the following day. Plogojowitz supposedly returned and attacked some neighbours who died from loss of blood.In the second case, Paole, an ex-soldier turned farmer who allegedly was attacked by a vampire years before, died while haying. After his death, people began to die in the surrounding area and it was widely believed that Paole had returned to prey on the neighbours.Another famous Serbian legend involving vampires concentrates around a certain Sava Savanović living in a watermill and killing and drinking blood from millers.  Both of these cases are treated as true (they are documented), unlike Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (Dracula) who has nothing to do with vampires at all