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ZAROZJE, Serbia (AP) Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose.
Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, nestled between lush green mountain slopes and spooky thick forests. They say rumors that a legendary vampire ghost has awakened are spreading fear and a potential tourist opportunity through the remote village.
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Sava Savanovic, described by the Zarozje villagers as Serbia's first vampire, reputedly drank the blood of those who came to the small shack in the dense oak tree forest to mill their grain on the clear mountain Rogatica river.
The wooden mill collapsed a few months ago allegedly angering the vampire, who is now looking for a new place to hang his cape.
Some locals claim they can hear steps cracking dry forest leaves and strange sounds coming from the rocky mountain peaks where the vampire was purportedly killed with a sharp stake that pierced his heart but managed to survive in spirit as a butterfly.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/vampire-loose-serbia
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And carrying a magic sword. Likely what they got on the lose has a more mundane, and less sexy, explanation.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)white_wolf
(6,238 posts)The paranormal fan in me is interested in these kinds of stories. Leaving aside my interest in the supernatural and looking at this from an anthropology standpoint it is fascinating that these folk beliefs still endure.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Culturally we all create our own monsters and they endure.