EUROPE AS CULTURE |
WHAT IS CALLED VAMPIRE : | |
(texte français: cliquez ici) | A spell against vampires | |
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How to defend oneself from a vampir attack through disenchantment. How to defend oneself from a vampir attack through disenchantment |
M. D. of
Sirbi, Maramures, Rumania, explains me in 1991 : "One does it with
coal. You pour water from a bucket into a clean vase. You have drawn it
from a river like this (she makes a gest), in the sense of the running
water. You come back home. You take from the stove nine pieces of coal
that you put into the vase. One says that if somebody has the evil eye,
the coal pieces fall to the bottom, except one that remains at the surface.
It is the one that is under a spell. Then, you say the incantation while
stirring the water with a knife like this (she shows me), you turn the
knife all around. Then you say the incantation nine times while holding
the knife in its sheath (see the text of the incantation in 31 verses,
in Rumananian and French in the book cited below). While you are making
the incantation, there in the water, you trace a cross like this with
the knife and you turn around it nine times. Then you come back home with
the water, without speaking with anybody on the way (...)". |
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J.C.: Mémoire des Carpathes, La Roumanie millénaire, un regard intérieur, Paris, Plon, Terre Humaine, 2000, pp.170-171 | ||||||