Let's talk #vampires.
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Let's talk #vampires. Mine are based on Russian/Central Asian mythology. My MMC is blond with double lidded eyes for racial ambiguity.
Vampires were huge in #slavic literature. For example, there is the ubir in #Turkish folklore which shapeshifts and consumes life and blood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upi%C3%B3r
The oldest vampire myth is of the Stirix which later becomes the Strigoi. My vampires are linguistically similar to the Strigoi, but functionally like the Ubir and Stirix.
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Let's talk #vampires. Mine are based on Russian/Central Asian mythology. My MMC is blond with double lidded eyes for racial ambiguity.
Vampires were huge in #slavic literature. For example, there is the ubir in #Turkish folklore which shapeshifts and consumes life and blood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upi%C3%B3r
The oldest vampire myth is of the Stirix which later becomes the Strigoi. My vampires are linguistically similar to the Strigoi, but functionally like the Ubir and Stirix.
@mariam_al_masri_author @bookstodon
In German folklore, vampires mostly show up in the eastern regions where there are remnants of Slavic influence. Here is a sample:
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@mariam_al_masri_author @bookstodon
In German folklore, vampires mostly show up in the eastern regions where there are remnants of Slavic influence. Here is a sample:
@juergen_hubert @bookstodon That's so interesting, I've been seeing that vampires are most prominent in former Ottoman Empire regions so I wonder if those regions also had some Ottoman influence.
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@juergen_hubert @bookstodon That's so interesting, I've been seeing that vampires are most prominent in former Ottoman Empire regions so I wonder if those regions also had some Ottoman influence.
@mariam_al_masri_author @bookstodon
Those regions were very far from Ottoman influence.
From a German-language folklore perspective, the regions closest to the Ottoman Empire were the eastern regions of Austria, where there are quite a few folk tales of the Turkish invasions. But I haven't found any vampire tales yet (though I haven't read many collections from there, either).
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@mariam_al_masri_author @bookstodon
Those regions were very far from Ottoman influence.
From a German-language folklore perspective, the regions closest to the Ottoman Empire were the eastern regions of Austria, where there are quite a few folk tales of the Turkish invasions. But I haven't found any vampire tales yet (though I haven't read many collections from there, either).
@juergen_hubert @bookstodon Interesting, but is in line with the records I've seen of priests bemoaning how villagers would desecrate corpses they thought weren't dead enough in more Slavic influenced regions.
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@juergen_hubert @bookstodon Interesting, but is in line with the records I've seen of priests bemoaning how villagers would desecrate corpses they thought weren't dead enough in more Slavic influenced regions.
Yeah, that's a common theme. I've translated a few other vampire tales from Germany, and I will see if I can put a few more of them on the wiki over the weekend.
