@@deadlydingus1138 Well, I suppose its about the neighbours the irish had, mostly english and viking, trying to kill them, conquer them or enslave them, so why would the mythologicals be different? Also being close to to the vikings: every mythological creature tries to kill you, even the good gods want you to die, and in the end, no matter what happens, the gods themselves die in battle and the world dies. How cheerful.
@Connor Marlow I have to agree with that but I only have experienced the major corruption in Romania before I moved out to a country with a better system. Where I live is flawed and clowny sometimes but it's nothing compared with the survival of the fittest in the Romanian system. Its the jungle in there tbh.
I grew up in Transylvania, and my grandparents were oldschool peasants with a house right next to the graveyard. So many unslept nights and nightmares after hearing my grandma's tales about the pricolici and the strigoi she saw as a young girl, in the olden days before electricity and all this modernity cast away the spirits. Strigoi actually means "Caller" or "Screamer", because they would come up to your window at night and call you by your name. And if you heard them, nothing and nobody could stop you from following their call. You would fight off any family member who tried to keep you from exiting that door. The victims they chose are people who would accidentally step into tracks left by the strigoi in the fields. If you thought you stepped in a strigoi track, you would best tie yourself to the bed that night with rope. Or get so drunk that you would pass out and not hear their call. Pricolici would roam around the countryside by rolling up into wheels and spin from village to village dizzyingly fast, and when they found a lone stragler late at night on the fields or streets, they would take a giant dog's form and attack. Sometimes when they curled into wheels, you could hear metal chains clattering and they would even light up as if of fire.
I quite liked how this one was told. Didn't expect the turns it made: first a dream, then a cautionary tale, then a history of a collection of tales, then an inspiration for a later famous tale (though I did suspect that last one).
Step 1.) call the inquisition Step 2.) call a Witch Hunter Step 3.) watch as the Arch Theogenist brings battle priests Step 4.) get the f*ck away from the huge ass battle about to happen in Sylvania
Stoker was also influenced by Irish mythology, being Irish himself. The tales of Abhartach, a vampiric dwarf slain by a mythic Irish king using a wooden sword/stake, and the Castle of the Tainted Blood (Dun Dreach-Fhoula) overlooking a mountain pass in Co Kerry said to be haunted by blood-drinking shapeshifters were probably know by him. Also there is "Camilla " a story written by the Irish author Sheridan LaFanu in 1870 which was popular at the time. Vampirism is a well known mythic phenomenon across the whole world and Stoker was living at a place (London) and time (Victorian era) where he was uniquely placed to amalgamate many traditions into our modern horror genre. Only today, thanks to the internet, can we do the same. Who knows what from our modern world will be considered classics by the future
The boy was settling back into bed when next he heard the baleful knock. "Hello kid. I would like discuss domestic policy with you." With that wretched utterance, the child knew truly that things more sinister than all the ravening pricolici and strigoi with maws crimson stained walked the earth in defiance of all moral balance given thereto.
Love this! So on point! Though I don't know if Romanian superstitions are the source of the "Don't let them in" myth, it certainly was around when I was a kid at the beginning of the 90's. Before we adopted Halloween, we had St. Andrew's. It was said that on that night, the dead could roam the land of the living and the way to keep them out was by hanging cloves of garlic and smearing garlic around entry points. Legend had it that your dead loved ones would come back and tempt you with sweet words to let them in and you had to not give in, for it wasn't them anymore. A funny / cruel joke some would play on their neighbors or families was to sneak out and knock on the door, then run off. I distinctly remember visiting my grandparents in a remote village on St. Andrew's and hearing knocks at the door on when I was playing around the house and my entire family was in the kitchen. I just assumed it was the dead. Sadly, that tradition disappeared with the adoption of intercoms and changing of the generations.
It works, man. I grew up near a high-population street, and people would cut through our alley at 50+ MPH. So my mom told my brother and I that there were tigers back there, and they'd kill us if they saw us. It kept us out of the alley.
You know what's the most nuts part about this whole deal? Up until very few years ago, people in rural areas in Romania still believed in Strigoi. If a family member had dreams of their recently deceased relative, it was a sign they are strigoi. If several dreamt of that deceased relative, even more. It couldn''t possibly be the fact that they lost a relative and had them on their mind. So, anyway, they would go to the cemetery, cops and all that, get the coffin out, open it, see that the body has blood from ears, nose, eyes, mouth, and of course, it's a strigoi, not the 2nd stage of putrefaction. Thusly, one should carve the heart out, burn it to ashes, put the ashes in water or holy water and serve it to the relatives. Here is one of the tons of cases: ruclips.net/video/VQVvPQX_Ezc/видео.html Some people like crickett, some people are into digging out corpses and doing stuff to them. But when an entire village does that, no wonder we're not in the Eurozone. Still, awesome tourist attraction for those who are tired of lame horror movies and wanna experience an entire village pandemic of fear.
Basically zombies mixed with vampire and poltergeists.Depends where in Romania you ask about them(since they are too a part of our folklore).Moldavians see them as poltergeists,wallachians think of them as some sort of zombie and transilvanyans see them as a vampire.But the consensous is that whatever moroi are,they come to life during the night of St Andrew(november 31st)
A "moroi" is a different name for "strigoi". The Expanatory Dictionary of Romanian language defines a "moroi" as a "ghost or a strigoi who is believed to have been born from an unbaptised child killed or buried alive or from a deceased person who has not received a proper religious service following death".2. A mean ghost who is believed to suckle on cows' blood or milk and who frightens children.
Moroi are the vengeful spirit of an infant who died unbaptised. It takes seven years for the moroi to form. The legend says that in the night of the seventh year aniversary of the child's death, a passerby through the cemetery can hear the child's cries. They will cry "cruce, cruce" meaning cross, or in other sources "botez, botez" meaning, well, bapsise (or how it is written in english). It is said that the person who hears the cries can save the infant's soul by finding their grave and reciting the incantation "se botează robul lui Dumbezeu, Ion sau Maria, în numele Tatălui, Fiului și Sfântului Spirit. Amin." After that they throw a white rag on the grave. If no one is there to save theinfant, then they will become a moroi. They become asort of vampiric creature, too weak to be a threat to an afult or teenager. It can appear as an nasty looking dog, but usually if you give it food, il will leave you alone. Just because it can't kill you, doesn't mean its bite isn't nasty. The only night in the year when a moroi can kill is at midnight at Saint Andrew's (Sfântul Andrei) night, which was fixated over an ancient dacian hollyday calked the Night of the Wolf (kinda like a Romanian Halloween). The real victim of the moroi is the cemetery's caretaker and their family, since the moroi will constantly torment then, almost haunting style, while sucking the life out and kill their animals, AND their small children, if they have any. The only way the family can escape is to move away. The moroi won't follow, it will just remain in the cemetery, awaiting a new family to move into the caretaker's house.
@@Вольныйказак-ю2й i didn't know the oficial definition.Mostly I take after the stories of my great grandparents.Nice to know that someone actually took time to make it oficial
This is a MASSIVE oversimplification and it varies according to regions in Romania, but basically: Strigoi = living evil person whose soul exits their body at night and causes harm to livestock and property. Moroi = a dead evil person who comes out of the grave to absorb life from people it knew iwhen alive, often family and friends. Pricolici = Living person with wolf head and huge claws. Eats livestock and humans, preffers livers. Your standard werewolf. Varcolac = undead werewolf.
The way he doesn't say those monsters won't harm zoey but instantly says she won't become one herself.... She must've obliterated some bird nests or something
You know what's the most nuts part about this whole deal? Up until very few years ago, people in rural areas in Romania still believed in Strigoi. If a family member had dreams of their recently deceased relative, it was a sign they are strigoi. If several dreamt of that deceased relative, even more. It couldn''t possibly be the fact that they lost a relative and had them on their mind. So, anyway, they would go to the cemetery, cops and all that, get the coffin out, open it, see that the body has blood from ears, nose, eyes, mouth, and of course, it's a strigoi, not the 2nd stage of putrefaction. Thusly, one should carve the heart out, burn it to ashes, put the ashes in water or holy water and serve it to the relatives. Here is one of the tons of cases: ruclips.net/video/VQVvPQX_Ezc/видео.html Some people like crickett, some people are into digging out corpses and doing stuff to them. But when an entire village does that, no wonder we're not in the Eurozone. Still, awesome tourist attraction for those who are tired of lame horror movies and wanna experience an entire village pandemic of fear.
for those intrested you ought to look up Vampire in lore and legend and Werewolf both by Montague Summers. he was an 19th century priest who collected the Folkloric tails of these creatures from throughout Europe over a time frame ranging from ancient Grease to his ow contemporary period
Varcolacs use to be a word for werewolf, until it is eventually came to refer to a sort of undead vampires. Pricolici an undead spirit that returns from the grave in the form of a wolf.
Yes and no ,in most translation of ,,werewolf" the word used is ,,Vârcolac " but in the romanian mythology a pricolici resembles more the idea of an werewolf ,while the vârcolacs (vârcolaci) are the spirits said to eat the sun and moon and usher in the new season
This is such a... wholesome story? I'm not sure how else to describe it but it's that level of just campy enough horror to be really fun but also human enough that it feels genuine. Your writers are lovely. Good job guys!
Oh, so just because I eat children and advocate the mass eating of all children you're not letting me give a speech at your university? This is Orwell's nightmare.
This was absolutely terrifying--as it was meant to be when told to children to keep them from wandering! I don't want to wander much either now. I love your storytelling!
pricolici are more shapeshifters than straight up werewolves, either way they usually take the form a canines but can be anything really, even formless spirits, same for strigoi moroi etc. These name are just regional words for more or less the same creature, eventually morphed into three separate entities each being attributed different traits that once were shared
This was such a good video, and as soon as you said the name Bram Stoker my jaw dropped about three meters; I'm starting Dracula and having this video tie into that was something supremely cool that I wasn't expecting. You guys knocked this out of the park!
nah, let's just watch the Hellsing anime first and then the Hellsing OVA second and then alllllll celebrate alucard. it should be all here on youtube! :D
Stand up for God in the land of the fire Bring on the madness, you're born to destroy Beyond the trail of Tartarean riders Armata strigoi Before the morning can break we retire The searing heat of the sun we avoid Await the dark proud Walachian fighters Armata strigoi
A very good episode. You outdone yourself with the voice acting and storytelling. Also, I am from Romania and I never heard about procolici. Learn something every day
It would be very interesting to cover all Balkan mythical creatures. Like karakondzula which is popular aswell as drekavac, vampire. There are many creatures in South Slavic mythology to be covered and I'm sure that many would be interested to hear about some of them.
It's pronounced more like "pree-ko-lich"; it ought to be pronounced faster, merging the syllables together rather than saying them as 3 separate sounds. The name of this creature sounds diminutive, almost comical, rather than scary to Romanian speakers
Omg thank you for refurbishing my nightmares' casting choice for the next few months (I'm locking every single window at night from now on) excellent design!!!
We used to have similar demons here in Poland. The traits of strigoi resemble slavic zmory, though the name reminds me of strzygi more. I think Ancient Greeks also had striggas, but they were more vampair-like than any of those listed here. At least for me.
It is good to hear the variant of the myths from our northern neighbors :-). On the soutehrn side of the Danube in Bulgaria our Pricolici are called vyrkolaci and are actually the souls of those who were betrayed and killed in the woods and/or far from human settlements. They hunger for revenge and hunt down their murderers and their murderer's kin. If they are prevented to exact revenge (if their murderer dies not by their doing and has no kin) they are consumed by their hunger and start hunting everything that bleeds. The hunters can spot their lair by the unnatural quiet around as all living beings have been killed. They can take the shape of the wolf but it is not mandatory and not their preferred form. They can change into anything and anyone.
Damn, that's so interesting, the Strigoi and pricolici stories are different throughout Romania. For example, where I grew up you could actually be born as a strigoi if the baby happened to swallow something I can't actually remember at birth, I think it was a piece of placenta though, and if you didn't properly take care of their body when they died (stick to the heart and a few other rituals) it was said that one of your relatives is going to die within the next year, murdered by the strigoi, they're also much more like vampires than in this story, if they catch you at night in the woods they'll suck all your blood
I'm so happy that finally, someone talked about that poor kid Some Romanians (including myself) believe the kid was schizophrenic, coupled with his grandpa telling him horror stories, I'm not surprised Dracula is Romanian
i am not easily scared in the slightest. i listen to bigfoot horror stories for fun. but god-DAMN that strigoi scared the hell out of me. like, shivers running down my spine.
The accent is in the last i of "strigoi"(strigoí not strígoi).Also there were no "strigoi" myths in Transylavnia until the XVIII century because the majority of the Transylavanian population were pretty much Hungarian and this is a Romanian myth.The Pricolici myth was borrowed by Hungarians and later by the Romanians who became majority in Translyavnia via Slavic folklore.
Southern Slavic nations (neighbours to Romanians with plenty of historic ties) have Vukodlak ("wolfhair") which is the same "evil person possibly not buried properly that comes back" original boogeyman that world folklore eventually got Werewolves and Vampires from (although the original ones are also often zombies or at least undead at the same time). In Southern Slavic regions (unsure about Romania and Bulgaria) they're part of stock phrases and folk-jokes. Like we say "povamipriti" ("to go vampire") when someone goes crazy with bloodthirst/greed/mania, or when something bad we thought we were rid of starts up again. But the best ever comes about because South-Eastern Europeans can be spookily hardy and long-lived. As long as you keep them away from alcohol, they're practically impossible to get rid of. So when someone asks about an older relatives health, "Jesi živa?" ("Are you alive?" - seriously that's how we ask someone how they're doing!) a common joke response (from the old person themselves!) is "Mala, neće to bez glogova kolca!", "Kiddo, it'll take a wooden stake (to see me off)!". And sometimes when they tell spooky stories to children, they don't say that if the kid misbehaves "a vampire" is going to come back from the dead - they say that THEY THEMSELVES will come back from the dead and scare them straight if they misbehave. Our folklore is morbid, self-depreciating and often hilarious ^^
Pricolici vs Strigoi, where is your money at?
Strigoi
Strigoi
Strigoi
Strigoi
I bet my money on Van Helsing, who can kick the butts of both monsters.
JESUS, That Strigoi was actually, honestly terrifying. Excellent artwork.
I had nightmares about that goddamn strigoi becoming a single maw that engulfed the child... CHRIST
The voice was perfect too.
It was but I honestly want more of it
I seriously agree with all of you above me but those eyes were cute
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Strigoi: "Dude, let me in. I'm a fairy."
If the Irish are to be believed you wouldn't want to let the fairy in either
@@albertolaurella9168 what is it with Irish mythology and everything trying to kill you?
@@albertolaurella9168 Some fairies are vampires too.
@@deadlydingus1138 Well, I suppose its about the neighbours the irish had, mostly english and viking, trying to kill them, conquer them or enslave them, so why would the mythologicals be different?
Also being close to to the vikings: every mythological creature tries to kill you, even the good gods want you to die, and in the end, no matter what happens, the gods themselves die in battle and the world dies.
How cheerful.
Nobody got the reference smh
Strigoi and Pricolici: The natural destiny of all politicians in Romania.
Yeah only the Political strigoi smells money instead of blood and the Pricolici is half pig
Oof. Honestly, I thought they were the Romanian equivalents of vampires and werewolves.
@Connor Marlow I have to agree with that but I only have experienced the major corruption in Romania before I moved out to a country with a better system. Where I live is flawed and clowny sometimes but it's nothing compared with the survival of the fittest in the Romanian system. Its the jungle in there tbh.
If only. I wish.
So what you're saying is politicians are already undead?
When you said something about the pricolici howling my guard dog started howling and barking
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty I think my dad is coming back from the grave
@@caveyspider Man you're lucky, mine wont even come back from the convenience store.
@@ROBOTPETER101 mine died of lung cancer
F
You're screwed! RUN!!
I grew up in Transylvania, and my grandparents were oldschool peasants with a house right next to the graveyard.
So many unslept nights and nightmares after hearing my grandma's tales about the pricolici and the strigoi she saw as a young girl, in the olden days before electricity and all this modernity cast away the spirits.
Strigoi actually means "Caller" or "Screamer", because they would come up to your window at night and call you by your name. And if you heard them, nothing and nobody could stop you from following their call. You would fight off any family member who tried to keep you from exiting that door. The victims they chose are people who would accidentally step into tracks left by the strigoi in the fields. If you thought you stepped in a strigoi track, you would best tie yourself to the bed that night with rope. Or get so drunk that you would pass out and not hear their call.
Pricolici would roam around the countryside by rolling up into wheels and spin from village to village dizzyingly fast, and when they found a lone stragler late at night on the fields or streets, they would take a giant dog's form and attack. Sometimes when they curled into wheels, you could hear metal chains clattering and they would even light up as if of fire.
Serios nu știam asta tx 😁
@@baddragon7057 sunt sigur ca variaza mult de la regiune la regiune, dar asa se povestea prin satele Salajului
Woa so cool
Therapist: The Strigoi isn't real. It can't hurt you.
The Strigoi:
friendly friend
Plans a pandemic and sabotages the American government
You afraid of PRECOLICIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII?
Ok that strigoi part with the kid legit freaked me out, and I'm watching this in broad daylight
Mhm yea it was pretty scary
Hailey Buhler im watching this at 3 am so seeing this coment I should not watching this rn
also watching this in broad daylight and turned around to check my window (despite the fact of being 33 floors above ground!)
@@codystriker9595 Spider-Strigoi! Spider-Strigoi! Clims up a 33 floor building just to look in your window!
@@menace-gamingvideos6527 NO, NO NO NO NO. DONT GIVE 2020 IDEAS
I quite liked how this one was told. Didn't expect the turns it made: first a dream, then a cautionary tale, then a history of a collection of tales, then an inspiration for a later famous tale (though I did suspect that last one).
Step 1: sell your sword
Step 2: Hire a Witcher
Remember to toss him a coin
He'll just sleep with the alluring Strigoi
@@sdmitch16 Unless the strigoi keeps on killing. Or he was paid in advance. :-p
Step 1.) call the inquisition
Step 2.) call a Witch Hunter
Step 3.) watch as the Arch Theogenist brings battle priests
Step 4.) get the f*ck away from the huge ass battle about to happen in Sylvania
*strums lute* TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER~
Omfg that strigoi. The voice acting and the animating and the writing was amazing. It scared the shit out of me
Pric-olici
Geralt: Hmmm
Strigoi
Geralt: Fuck.
He only had issue with that one strzyga becouse he had to undo curse
5:40 "Far better than your MOTHER" I'm sorry is this a custody battle?
😂🤣😂
Somethings never change
strigoi really went and was like "your MOM"
5:20
Why did I laugh at this? 😂😂😂
As a romanian, I’m wheezing so bad rn damn!!!
I am romanian too!!!
neatza
Wheezing from fear or....?
alus nova as in laughing really loud
Shout-out to Romania! My son’s special needs assistant is Romanian and she’s the absolute awesomest.
Stoker was also influenced by Irish mythology, being Irish himself. The tales of Abhartach, a vampiric dwarf slain by a mythic Irish king using a wooden sword/stake, and the Castle of the Tainted Blood (Dun Dreach-Fhoula) overlooking a mountain pass in Co Kerry said to be haunted by blood-drinking shapeshifters were probably know by him. Also there is "Camilla " a story written by the Irish author Sheridan LaFanu in 1870 which was popular at the time. Vampirism is a well known mythic phenomenon across the whole world and Stoker was living at a place (London) and time (Victorian era) where he was uniquely placed to amalgamate many traditions into our modern horror genre. Only today, thanks to the internet, can we do the same. Who knows what from our modern world will be considered classics by the future
Ayoo he was Irish! Sweet
What if you're more evil than what would be classified as a Strigoi or Pricolici
What would you become next?
*Politicians?*
You would become the most evil of evil demonetization
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The boy was settling back into bed when next he heard the baleful knock. "Hello kid. I would like discuss domestic policy with you." With that wretched utterance, the child knew truly that things more sinister than all the ravening pricolici and strigoi with maws crimson stained walked the earth in defiance of all moral balance given thereto.
Does that mean politicians are undead people? 🤔🤢
4:29 : when it seems like the story is alright and has a good ending, but there's still half a video left
oh man, the strigoi part was so good, I felt my body shivering in waves.
When I read the title I ( a Romanian) was like :
It can't be THAT Strigoi.
RUclips: your getting demonetized
extra credits:nooooo
*Wakes up*
Extra credits:oh, it's just a bad dream
*COPPA, scratching at the window:*
I heard your screams
It's not wise to ignore the voice of COPPA!
@@eeeee7934 And then we saw something reflecting of the light... dead youtube channels their jobs destroyed.
Love this! So on point! Though I don't know if Romanian superstitions are the source of the "Don't let them in" myth, it certainly was around when I was a kid at the beginning of the 90's. Before we adopted Halloween, we had St. Andrew's. It was said that on that night, the dead could roam the land of the living and the way to keep them out was by hanging cloves of garlic and smearing garlic around entry points. Legend had it that your dead loved ones would come back and tempt you with sweet words to let them in and you had to not give in, for it wasn't them anymore. A funny / cruel joke some would play on their neighbors or families was to sneak out and knock on the door, then run off. I distinctly remember visiting my grandparents in a remote village on St. Andrew's and hearing knocks at the door on when I was playing around the house and my entire family was in the kitchen. I just assumed it was the dead. Sadly, that tradition disappeared with the adoption of intercoms and changing of the generations.
5:00 I think we found the where Pennywise got his scare tactics from.
Wow i think that's as visually scary as these myths have gotten. Bar has been raised.
The voice acting in this episode is so good, both the strigoi and the demons ! That strigoi was actually scary.
Oh romanian story
Also the words are spoken on point
isn't it "pricolich"?
@@iuriepripa3171 Ba da, ca nu e "Pricolicii".
So Romanian uses the "chee" sound for ci like in Italian?
@@johnsupergeil7098 actually no, it has to be double "i"s for that; single "i" is "ch"
@@johnsupergeil7098 yes
Of course all these "terrifying" stories were always told to children!
Got to teach them to stay away from graves and woods especially after dark, otherwise they might get lost and hurt
@@SMon42 you've got a fair point
These tales should come with something to make them believe the house is safe though, to discourage nightmares 😅
It works, man. I grew up near a high-population street, and people would cut through our alley at 50+ MPH. So my mom told my brother and I that there were tigers back there, and they'd kill us if they saw us. It kept us out of the alley.
You know what's the most nuts part about this whole deal? Up until very few years ago, people in rural areas in Romania still believed in Strigoi. If a family member had dreams of their recently deceased relative, it was a sign they are strigoi. If several dreamt of that deceased relative, even more. It couldn''t possibly be the fact that they lost a relative and had them on their mind. So, anyway, they would go to the cemetery, cops and all that, get the coffin out, open it, see that the body has blood from ears, nose, eyes, mouth, and of course, it's a strigoi, not the 2nd stage of putrefaction. Thusly, one should carve the heart out, burn it to ashes, put the ashes in water or holy water and serve it to the relatives.
Here is one of the tons of cases: ruclips.net/video/VQVvPQX_Ezc/видео.html
Some people like crickett, some people are into digging out corpses and doing stuff to them. But when an entire village does that, no wonder we're not in the Eurozone. Still, awesome tourist attraction for those who are tired of lame horror movies and wanna experience an entire village pandemic of fear.
Any Eastern Europeans here wanna explain about the Moroi? I've heard of them from various media but it's never consistent.
Basically zombies mixed with vampire and poltergeists.Depends where in Romania you ask about them(since they are too a part of our folklore).Moldavians see them as poltergeists,wallachians think of them as some sort of zombie and transilvanyans see them as a vampire.But the consensous is that whatever moroi are,they come to life during the night of St Andrew(november 31st)
A "moroi" is a different name for "strigoi". The Expanatory Dictionary of Romanian language defines a "moroi" as a "ghost or a strigoi who is believed to have been born from an unbaptised child killed or buried alive or from a deceased person who has not received a proper religious service following death".2. A mean ghost who is believed to suckle on cows' blood or milk and who frightens children.
Moroi are the vengeful spirit of an infant who died unbaptised. It takes seven years for the moroi to form. The legend says that in the night of the seventh year aniversary of the child's death, a passerby through the cemetery can hear the child's cries. They will cry "cruce, cruce" meaning cross, or in other sources "botez, botez" meaning, well, bapsise (or how it is written in english).
It is said that the person who hears the cries can save the infant's soul by finding their grave and reciting the incantation "se botează robul lui Dumbezeu, Ion sau Maria, în numele Tatălui, Fiului și Sfântului Spirit. Amin." After that they throw a white rag on the grave.
If no one is there to save theinfant, then they will become a moroi. They become asort of vampiric creature, too weak to be a threat to an afult or teenager. It can appear as an nasty looking dog, but usually if you give it food, il will leave you alone. Just because it can't kill you, doesn't mean its bite isn't nasty.
The only night in the year when a moroi can kill is at midnight at Saint Andrew's (Sfântul Andrei) night, which was fixated over an ancient dacian hollyday calked the Night of the Wolf (kinda like a Romanian Halloween).
The real victim of the moroi is the cemetery's caretaker and their family, since the moroi will constantly torment then, almost haunting style, while sucking the life out and kill their animals, AND their small children, if they have any. The only way the family can escape is to move away. The moroi won't follow, it will just remain in the cemetery, awaiting a new family to move into the caretaker's house.
@@Вольныйказак-ю2й i didn't know the oficial definition.Mostly I take after the stories of my great grandparents.Nice to know that someone actually took time to make it oficial
This is a MASSIVE oversimplification and it varies according to regions in Romania, but basically:
Strigoi = living evil person whose soul exits their body at night and causes harm to livestock and property.
Moroi = a dead evil person who comes out of the grave to absorb life from people it knew iwhen alive, often family and friends.
Pricolici = Living person with wolf head and huge claws. Eats livestock and humans, preffers livers. Your standard werewolf.
Varcolac = undead werewolf.
"evil man return as strigoi but the espicely ones return as sonthing even worse". to what? " a furry"
@@Rustikreign
Demon: "Send him back...Pricolici!"
Soul: "Oh no!"
Demon: "No, wait...send him back...a FURRY!"
Soul: "THAT'S EVEN WORSE!"
A fate worst than death lol
@@gabrielaubry1334 UwU what's this?!
Cyrus d'Vulture owo hewwo friend!! uwu hi everyone!!!
I'm a furry. And I can say...pricolices are kinda cute...
The way he doesn't say those monsters won't harm zoey but instantly says she won't become one herself.... She must've obliterated some bird nests or something
They would never harm Zoey, she's the one all Strigoi are afraid of when they look through the window.
So you guys were COMPLETELY OKAY with illustrating this episode but you wouldn't illustrate that dentistry one?!
And the Aztec ones...
Oh god no don't say that
Best voice work Ive ever seen in this channel. Props!
You know what's the most nuts part about this whole deal? Up until very few years ago, people in rural areas in Romania still believed in Strigoi. If a family member had dreams of their recently deceased relative, it was a sign they are strigoi. If several dreamt of that deceased relative, even more. It couldn''t possibly be the fact that they lost a relative and had them on their mind. So, anyway, they would go to the cemetery, cops and all that, get the coffin out, open it, see that the body has blood from ears, nose, eyes, mouth, and of course, it's a strigoi, not the 2nd stage of putrefaction. Thusly, one should carve the heart out, burn it to ashes, put the ashes in water or holy water and serve it to the relatives.
Here is one of the tons of cases: ruclips.net/video/VQVvPQX_Ezc/видео.html
Some people like crickett, some people are into digging out corpses and doing stuff to them. But when an entire village does that, no wonder we're not in the Eurozone. Still, awesome tourist attraction for those who are tired of lame horror movies and wanna experience an entire village pandemic of fear.
The Strigoi scared the living **** out of me!
The Strigoi...that gave me literal chills. Great work!
Strigoi: "Lemme in."
"Oh good, its one of those monsters that can only enter houses if they're invited."
*window unlatches*
"Ah fuck."
for those intrested you ought to look up Vampire in lore and legend and Werewolf both by Montague Summers. he was an 19th century priest who collected the Folkloric tails of these creatures from throughout Europe over a time frame ranging from ancient Grease to his ow contemporary period
I've never heard of a werewolf being called a "Pricolici", I've always heard it called "Vârcolac".
Must be a different type.
Varcolacs use to be a word for werewolf, until it is eventually came to refer to a sort of undead vampires. Pricolici an undead spirit that returns from the grave in the form of a wolf.
Well, they're different creatures. A vârcolac is just a werewolf, a pricolici is a vampire werewolf.
Pricolici e un fel de werewolf amestecat cu vampir și care se mai poate și transforma
Yes and no ,in most translation of ,,werewolf" the word used is ,,Vârcolac " but in the romanian mythology a pricolici resembles more the idea of an werewolf ,while the vârcolacs (vârcolaci) are the spirits said to eat the sun and moon and usher in the new season
Honestly, this episode scared the piss out of me!
i was genuinely scared
i now havs a new favourite ep
This is such a... wholesome story? I'm not sure how else to describe it but it's that level of just campy enough horror to be really fun but also human enough that it feels genuine. Your writers are lovely. Good job guys!
4:45 - "Dude let me in. Fascism is a legitimate political ideology. Don't you believe in free speech?"
Oh, so just because I eat children and advocate the mass eating of all children you're not letting me give a speech at your university? This is Orwell's nightmare.
Bigly Legit SARCASM :)
'MOM! PewDiePie was in my window!'
This was absolutely terrifying--as it was meant to be when told to children to keep them from wandering! I don't want to wander much either now. I love your storytelling!
pricolici are more shapeshifters than straight up werewolves, either way they usually take the form a canines but can be anything really, even formless spirits, same for strigoi moroi etc. These name are just regional words for more or less the same creature, eventually morphed into three separate entities each being attributed different traits that once were shared
That voice you used for the Strigoi gave me chills! Awesome job!
Toss a coin to your witcher, and STAT!!
*(Tosses coin after coin at the screen)*
I DON'T NEED A COIN, I NEED A FREAKING BANK
A witcher? screw that Im calling THE witcher.
This was such a good video, and as soon as you said the name Bram Stoker my jaw dropped about three meters; I'm starting Dracula and having this video tie into that was something supremely cool that I wasn't expecting. You guys knocked this out of the park!
Man I'm so happy that this great channel made a video about Legends in my country.
Let us now see the legendary monster hunter VAN HELSING!!!
nah, let's just watch the Hellsing anime first and then the Hellsing OVA second and then alllllll celebrate alucard. it should be all here on youtube! :D
van Helsing in the actual Dracula story is just a superstitious Dutch doctor with a funny accent.
And his trademark Van Helsing SERIOUS FACE!
@@Dichtsau Or better yet, Hellsing Abridged
And his trusty sidekick, Lil Hellrap.
Stand up for God in the land of the fire
Bring on the madness, you're born to destroy
Beyond the trail of Tartarean riders
Armata strigoi
Before the morning can break we retire
The searing heat of the sun we avoid
Await the dark proud Walachian fighters
Armata strigoi
We are the stormbound, the avatar
We are the sons of God and sorrow
We are the ones who see no tomorrow
Suck up! Armata de strigoi
@@EtienneFirsching *guitar/organ solo*
We hail the cross
And we kill
By the bible
For seven sins
Are defined to deploy
Along the front
Of Moldavian strikers
Armata strigoi
You beat me to it. You should try their new board game. It's pretty good!
Can somebody please explain what this is about
Even though I love all the Extra Mythology videos, I think this is the best one, so far!
Great writing, great storytelling and great art!!
All these extra myths are nice to watch but this was an especially good episode.
Nicely done gang.
The writing on this episode was amazing. Thank you Steven Van Patten. I think you just became my new fave horror writer.
Nobody:
Strigoi: let me in! Let me iiiiIINNN!!!
his reading of the strigoi was incredible! well done!
Good audio effects on the Strigoi. Nice work.
A very good episode. You outdone yourself with the voice acting and storytelling.
Also, I am from Romania and I never heard about procolici. Learn something every day
"A meet-cute"?
the strigoi was being serious about just watning to be his friend
@@seelcudoom1
Strigoi: I just want to be friends
Me, holding a cross: STAY BACK, I'M AN INTROVERT!
i love the animations so much!!! amazing way of drawing the traditional clothing! ❤️
That was friggin’ terrifying
I haven’t been so terrified in a while. Well done, Matt and everyone at Extra Credits!!
This video actually scared me lmao
These are really well produced loved it
My god, this episode was terrifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this channel, keeping my mind busy during quarantine!
It would be very interesting to cover all Balkan mythical creatures. Like karakondzula which is popular aswell as drekavac, vampire. There are many creatures in South Slavic mythology to be covered and I'm sure that many would be interested to hear about some of them.
Plot twist:
The strigoi was friendly and protected the child from the first monster; the blood on his mouth was theirs.
When I was but a boy / I dreamed of Strigoi,
But never of Pricolici.
In my adult bedroom / My dreams turned to Hume.
But never to Friedrich Nietzsche
I just LOVE those monster monologs! They are so good and spooky!
I am from Romania . Yeyyy .
finally you guys cover this , I have been asking you for so long
I'm so happy you finally made an episode about something romanian. Mad props to the extra mythology team!
It's pronounced more like "pree-ko-lich"; it ought to be pronounced faster, merging the syllables together rather than saying them as 3 separate sounds. The name of this creature sounds diminutive, almost comical, rather than scary to Romanian speakers
Omg thank you for refurbishing my nightmares' casting choice for the next few months (I'm locking every single window at night from now on) excellent design!!!
Extra Mythology about my country?????? omg
Iurie Pripa How i felt wen they made my contery
Salut, bă.
@@bogdanserban3792 salut şi ție
salut și vouă
I am so happy that they made a story about the strigoi
We used to have similar demons here in Poland. The traits of strigoi resemble slavic zmory, though the name reminds me of strzygi more.
I think Ancient Greeks also had striggas, but they were more vampair-like than any of those listed here. At least for me.
What about "zmeu"?
Nicely done imagery on this one. For an art style that isn't scary.... this one actually got a bit frightening. Nice work, guys!
5:55 You did an awesome job
6:05-6:06 I’m sorry, but that shout always gets an unintentional chuckle out of me.
Sweet Cheeses. So glad I watched this at night :/
It is good to hear the variant of the myths from our northern neighbors :-). On the soutehrn side of the Danube in Bulgaria our Pricolici are called vyrkolaci and are actually the souls of those who were betrayed and killed in the woods and/or far from human settlements. They hunger for revenge and hunt down their murderers and their murderer's kin. If they are prevented to exact revenge (if their murderer dies not by their doing and has no kin) they are consumed by their hunger and start hunting everything that bleeds. The hunters can spot their lair by the unnatural quiet around as all living beings have been killed. They can take the shape of the wolf but it is not mandatory and not their preferred form. They can change into anything and anyone.
This is the literal "Man too angry to die"
Damn, that's so interesting, the Strigoi and pricolici stories are different throughout Romania. For example, where I grew up you could actually be born as a strigoi if the baby happened to swallow something I can't actually remember at birth, I think it was a piece of placenta though, and if you didn't properly take care of their body when they died (stick to the heart and a few other rituals) it was said that one of your relatives is going to die within the next year, murdered by the strigoi, they're also much more like vampires than in this story, if they catch you at night in the woods they'll suck all your blood
I would love to hear about Revenants. Undead beings that are the spirits of people literally too angry to die.
This is easily some of the best art I've seen on this channel
Well, best get tossing coins to your Witcher...
Informative and retraumatising. The REtraumatising part is important.
...I wasn't terrified of the strigoi, there was another emotion rising within me.
Arousal?
@@AViewCado69420 MY MAN!
Amazing video ! Thank you for selecting this old folk tale.
Christ. And just before bed....
I’m going to need a palette cleanser.
I don't know who had more fun this episode, the artist for drawing the monsters or our narrator for busting out the creepy effects.
Thnx from a Romanian. I am really glad as a myth from my nation. Long live Romania.
I'm so happy that finally, someone talked about that poor kid
Some Romanians (including myself) believe the kid was schizophrenic, coupled with his grandpa telling him horror stories, I'm not surprised Dracula is Romanian
Um can you tell me what happened to the boy after that in the story?
i was doing just fine but then at the end. He said *romanian* and now i'm scared
i am not easily scared in the slightest. i listen to bigfoot horror stories for fun. but god-DAMN that strigoi scared the hell out of me. like, shivers running down my spine.
Hey, Extra Credits! How about the iele? Same romanian culture and quite a lot more stories about them as well.
I'm a grown woman and the strigoi scared me! 😱
Christ success on most horrifying voiceacting present in EC
2 years later and this video still freaks me out.
Strigoi: The Ancient Succubus
More like Vampire. Succubi were not a thing in Eastern Europe.
The accent is in the last i of "strigoi"(strigoí not strígoi).Also there were no "strigoi" myths in Transylavnia until the XVIII century because the majority of the Transylavanian population were pretty much Hungarian and this is a Romanian myth.The Pricolici myth was borrowed by Hungarians and later by the Romanians who became majority in Translyavnia via Slavic folklore.
The pricolici sound like the result of sleep paralysis.
Or at least in this version of the story it would.
Southern Slavic nations (neighbours to Romanians with plenty of historic ties) have Vukodlak ("wolfhair") which is the same "evil person possibly not buried properly that comes back" original boogeyman that world folklore eventually got Werewolves and Vampires from (although the original ones are also often zombies or at least undead at the same time). In Southern Slavic regions (unsure about Romania and Bulgaria) they're part of stock phrases and folk-jokes. Like we say "povamipriti" ("to go vampire") when someone goes crazy with bloodthirst/greed/mania, or when something bad we thought we were rid of starts up again.
But the best ever comes about because South-Eastern Europeans can be spookily hardy and long-lived. As long as you keep them away from alcohol, they're practically impossible to get rid of. So when someone asks about an older relatives health, "Jesi živa?" ("Are you alive?" - seriously that's how we ask someone how they're doing!) a common joke response (from the old person themselves!) is "Mala, neće to bez glogova kolca!", "Kiddo, it'll take a wooden stake (to see me off)!". And sometimes when they tell spooky stories to children, they don't say that if the kid misbehaves "a vampire" is going to come back from the dead - they say that THEY THEMSELVES will come back from the dead and scare them straight if they misbehave.
Our folklore is morbid, self-depreciating and often hilarious ^^