busy life !

唉！
中三的生活说讨厌不讨厌，说喜欢也不喜欢。
只有一个字能形容：忙
要不是我懒惰，每天推三推四，我想，我早就被功课给埋了，你们哪里还能阅读我的文章？

唉，一堆堆的projects更死压死人，都快被烦死了 =O
谁来解救我啊？T.T
呜呜.. 如果世界上没有文凭这东西该有多好啊！
虽然我是懒了点，但是我只是希望能天天快乐；
这样，假使世界末日到了，我也不会有遗憾了。
世事无常，谁知道明天会发生什么事？
与其每天忙碌地追逐一些无谓的东西，倒不如快乐地过每一天=]
去做我们认为该做的事吧~ 这样将来才不会后悔 ~

好想念老朋友啊

我还记得小学还没毕业前，我们的级任刘老师曾经对我们说过一番话，我至今仍然记得。
她说：小学朋友才是最好的！因为小学朋友最单纯！等你们上中学后就会知道，中学有多么复杂
对于刘老师说过的话，我深信不疑。
真的，感觉中学生活好冷漠，连老师也如此。
老朋友，我好想念你们哪！ 
近来通过面子书找到越来越多的旧同学，好高兴哦！
大家毕竟三年没见了也`
好想念小学苯苯的我们哦 xD
想到小学时大家混在一起玩耍， 观赏打架，和老师唱反调等 .. 真的好怀念~
还有那次帮老师们庆生！ 
还有还有！
每次老师要进班时，都会有人在喊“ 终极笑班， 备战！”
现在想起来，真的是会笑去！


终极笑班哪～　答应我，一定要找一天大家一起出来 lim teh 哦 =)

又是一个星期五`

星期五下午，本来应该在家里睡午觉的-.-
但是今天比较不同啦，本来和同学说好留在学校讨论PLBS的，谁知道竟然被放飞机-.-
放学后当然是奔去找我可爱的朋友们咯~
像Jojoe, Sze Yee, Hui Ying, Bong, 还有2I 的朋友~ 超想他们滴！
见到他们，当然是和他们来个爱的抱抱咯~ 不知道几久没见了=(
然后就和Sze Yee, Tan Chi , Bong 去金湾吃午餐咯~
吃完午餐？唉。回学校。剩下我一个=[
我等啊等，等啊等，等他们其中一个下来找我，谁知道四个小时里半个人影都不见=.=
算了算了，明天还有一个更精彩的~哈哈哈！
那个大哥啊~都不知道几岁了~还那么幼稚.. 哈哈哈
其实我刚刚想说你是不是老顽童啊？
啊哈哈~  =PP

刚刚我和Chiin Jessy聊到世界末日..
Jessy : 等你过奈何桥时，如果没喝完孟婆汤， 就会记得一点点现在的事。 你会喝完吗？
我：是我，我会喝完波！
Jessy : 做么叻？
我：我不喜欢我这世
Jessy : 那我要喝完了，我生气了，我不要记得你了。
我心想“哦，原来他是有意要记得我，所以要我记得他也是”
我：Bong,谢谢你，给了我听过最好笑的笑话哈哈
*** 哈哈哈.. ***
BONG， 你好可爱哦！ xDDD

告诉我，这只是一场噩梦

这两天真的是有够衰的~
成绩一塌糊涂！看了就有想哭的冲动！
唉~ 我有史以来考过最烂的一次！
怎么有种比世界末日还有悲哀的感觉呢？
想哭啊！
我这次真的有学书..
可是怎么结果是这样？
越学越死！ 越学离我的目标越远！
天啊！那不是不要考更好？
妈妈米亚！
你要我怎样向我的母亲大人交待啊？
看来只有等死的份咯～　
谁来跟我说要怎样学才有用呀？呜呜．．T^T
暂时不说这个了
今天周会还被老师冤枉我们迟到～
结果被罚跑一圈～
然后还要走四楼的楼梯回班咯
我这么肥，根本就是折磨我嘛 ><||
算了！就当是减肥吧！　-.-

京菱！　加油加油加油！

歌词分享- 重来

重来

黄小琥 - 重来

你是否爱过
你爱他多过他爱你的人
你还记得吗
你是否爱过
他有种真命天子般的人
你还记得吗
相爱以后终于分手
分手以后又想重来
如果能重来 诚实地去对待
彼此都没疑猜
就没有理由分开
如果能重来 回忆当作尘埃
心不曾被伤害
就能无瑕疵地爱
但是重来
却不能保证爱的成功或失败
要重来多少次后才会明白

你是否爱过
让你日夜忘不了的人
你还记得吗
我们曾爱过
不同种类不同面孔的人
你记得哪个他
相爱以后终于分手
分手以后又想重来
如果能重来 诚实地去对待
彼此都没疑猜
就没有理由分开
如果能重来 回忆当作尘埃
心不曾被伤害
就能无瑕疵地爱
但是重来
却不能保证爱的成功或失败
要重来多少次后才会明白
如果能重来 诚实地去对待
彼此都没疑猜
就没有理由分开
如果能重来 回忆当作尘埃
心不曾被伤害
就能无瑕疵地爱 但是重来
却不能保证爱的成功或失败
要重来多少次后才会明白
要重来多少次后才会明白

下一个我

炎亚纶-下一个我
曲：饶善强 词：陈信延
lrc编辑：布丁小锞

听到第一个我说做人要诚恳

偏偏第二个我刚刚穿好保护色

第三个我 在干什么

静静 看著 两个我 在拔河

第四个我热血沸腾 彻夜唱著歌

第五个我却赖在床上一直瘫痪睡著

第六七个我 到哪里呢

难道背叛我了

一边笑得疯了 一边哭得累了 判若 两人

快要放弃了 快要虚脱了

下一 个我 又是 什么 角色

一边温驯爱著 一边激烈恨著 心能有几颗

我痛得快死了 可却还能活著

你说 该如何

上一个我还没修完失恋的功课

下一个我却迫不及待很想坠入爱河

同一个躯壳 不同人生

每个我都陌生

一边笑得疯了 一边哭得累了 判若 两人

快要放弃了 快要虚脱了

下一 个我 又是 什么 角色

一边温驯爱著 一边激烈恨著 心能有几颗

我痛得快死了 可却还能活著

你说 该如何

一边加速衝了 一边却在煞车 判若 两人

我不是我的 属于别人了

所以 自己 都没 资格 选择

一边极度快乐 一边心如刀割 人格分裂著

等待下一个我 挑战这一个我

你说 扯不扯

世说心语

孙燕姿 - 世说心语
作词：林怡芬、Jay Lim
作曲：Jay Lim
LRC制作：369歌词组◎星洲
每一天 镜子前 我看见 同一个脸
却听见 在耳边 呼吸声 好遥远
我想笑 我想爱
想奔跑 想拥抱
我是怎么了 像被困住了
时间满满的心却空空的
有那么一天时间停止了
才发现原来心自由才能
真的快乐 单纯快乐
每一夜 月阴缺 我学会 不完美的美
心跳声 在周围 催促我 有梦去追
我又起飞了 我是自由的
随风旋转着开心唱着歌
有那么一天时间停止了
才发现心自由才能快乐
这种感动我记得
像出发的那一刻
哪一段才是永久
太多美丽的语言
不比心语的纯洁
勇敢奔向新世界
我又起飞了 我是自由的
随风旋转着开心唱着歌
在那么一天时间停住了
我会知道我心是自由的

FISH MY STUPID DAMN HOLIDAY

annyeonghasaeyo !
This holiday definitely sucks :((
Soooo many homework and projects !
hell ! what should I do?
I'm just so not in the mood.
The pass few days, Japan had an earthquake and tsunami :[
bad news, isnt it?
haiz ! some of them say world end 2012 is coming !
but what I think is : Live happily. Even if 2012 is coming, we won't regret. God or whatever it is ( nth to offend the christians )  has the power to create us, he/she also has the power to destroy us.
Life is like that. Unpredictable. Right?

okay, let's just leave it now.
Talking about Projects freak mii out !
it's so oh-my-goodness !
u get what I mean?
Holiday ain't holiday anymore if what we do everyday is projects projects projects, homework homework homework.

SCHOOL FREAKS MII

SCHOOL PRESSURES MII

SCHOOL KILLS MY FUN-CELLS !

my babe and I studied for the exam =P

Anyway, BYE =)
LIFE IS PRETTY  !

Vampire stories =DD

However, the vampires we are familiar with today, although mutated by fiction and film, are largely based on Eastern European myths. The vampire myths of Europe originated in the Far East, and were transported from places like China, Tibet and India with the trade caravans along the silk route to the Mediterranean. Here they spread out along the Black Sea coast to Greece, the Balkans and of course the Carpathian Mountains, including Hungary and Transylvania.

Our modern concept of the vampire still retains threads, such as blood drinking, return from death, preying on humans at night, etc in common with the Eastern European myths. However many things we are familiar with; the wearing of evening clothes, capes with tall collars, turning into bats, etc are much more recent inventions.

On the other hand, many features of the old myths such as the placing of millet or poppy seeds at the gravesite in order to keep the vampire occupied all night counting seeds rather than preying on relatives, have all but disappeared from modern fiction and film.

Even among the Eastern European countries there is a large variety of vampires.

SLAVIC VAMPIRES:

The Slavic people including most east Europeans from Russia to Bulgaria, Serbia to Poland, have the richest vampire folklore and legends in the world. The Slavs came from north of the Black Sea and were closely associated with the Iranians. Prior to 8th century AD they migrated north and west to where they are now.

Christianization began almost as soon as they arrived in their new homelands. But through the 9th and 10th centuries the Eastern Orthodox Church and the western Roman Church were struggling with each other for supremacy. They formally broke in 1054 AD, with the Bulgarians, Russians, and Serbians staying Orthodox, while the Poles, Czechs, and Croatians went Roman. This split caused a big difference in the development of vampire lore - the Roman church believed incorrupt bodies were saints, while the Orthodox Church believed they were vampires.

The origin of Slavic vampire myths developed during 9th C as a result of conflict between pre-Christian paganism and Christianity. Christianity won out with the vampires and other pagan beliefs surviving in folklore.

Causes of vampirism included: being born with a caul, teeth, or tail, being conceived on certain days, irregular death, excommunication, improper burial rituals etc. Preventative measures included: placing a crucifix in the coffin, or blocks under the chin to prevent the body from eating the shroud, nailing clothes to coffin walls for the same reason, placing millet or poppy seeds in the grave because vampires had a fascination with counting, or piercing the body with thorns or stakes.

Evidence that a vampire was at work in the neighbourhood included: death of cattle, sheep, relatives, neighbours, exhumed bodies being in a lifelike state with new growth of the fingernails or hair, or if the body was swelled up like a drum, or there was blood on the mouth and if the corpse had a ruddy complexion.

Vampires could be destroyed by staking, decapitation (the Kashubs placed the head between the feet), burning, repeating the funeral service, holy water on the grave, exorcism.

ROMANIA:

Romania is surrounded by Slavic countries, so it isn't surprising that their vampires are variants of the Slavic vampire. They are called Strigoi based on the Roman term strix for screech owl which also came to mean demon or witch.

There are different types of strigoi: strigoi vii are live witches who will become vampires after death. They can send out their soul at night to meet with other witches or with Strigoi mort who are dead vampires. The strigoi morts are the reanimated bodies which return to suck the blood of family, livestock, and neighbours.

A person born with a caul, tail, born out of wedlock, or one who died an unnatural death, or died before baptism, was doomed to become a vampire. As was the seventh child of the same sex in a family, the child of a pregnant woman who didn't eat salt or was looked at by a vampire, or a witch. And naturally, being bitten by vampire meant certain condemnation to a vampiric existence after death.

The Vircolac which is sometimes mentioned in folklore was more closely related to a mythological wolf that could devour the sun and moon and later became connected with werewolves rather than vampires. The person afflicted with lycanthropy could turn into a dog, pig, or wolf.

The vampire was usually first noticed when it attacked family and livestock, or threw things around in the house. Vampires, along with witches, were believed to be most active on the Eve of St George's Day (April 22 Julian, May 4 Gregorian calendar), the night when all forms of evil were supposed to be abroad. St Georges Day is still celebrated in Europe.

A vampire in the grave could be told by holes in the earth, an undecomposed corpse with a red face, or having one foot in the corner of the coffin. Living vampires were found by distributing garlic in church and seeing who didn't eat it.

Graves were often opened three years after death of a child, five years after the death of a young person, or seven years after the death of an adult to check for vampirism.

Measures to prevent a person becoming a vampire included, removing the caul from a newborn and destroying it before the baby could eat any of it, careful preparation of dead bodies, including preventing animals from passing over the corpse, placing a thorny branch of wild rose in the grave, and placing garlic on windows and rubbing it on cattle, especially on St George's & St Andrew's days.

To destroy a vampire, a stake was driven through the body followed by decapitation and placing garlic in the mouth. By the 19th century people were shooting a bullet through the coffin. For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and given to family members as a cure.

GYPSIES AND VAMPIRES:

Even today, Gypsies frequently feature in vampire fiction and film, no doubt influenced by Bram Stoker's book "Dracula" in which the Szgany gypsies served Dracula, carrying his boxes of earth and guarding him.

In reality, Gypsies originated as nomadic tribes in northern India, but got their name from the early belief that they came from Egypt. By 1000 AD they started spreading westward and settled in Turkey for a time, incorporating many Turkish words into their Romany language.

By the 14th century they were all through the Balkans and within two more centuries had spread all across Europe. Gypsies arrived in Romania a short time before Vlad Dracula was born in 1431.

Their religion is complex and varies between tribes, but they have a god called O Del, as well as the concept of Good and Evil forces and a strong relationship and loyalty to dead relatives. They believed the dead soul entered a world similar to ours except that there is no death. The soul stayed around the body and sometimes wanted to come back. The Gypsy myths of the living dead added to and enriched the vampire myths of Hungary, Romania, and Slavic lands.

The ancient home of the Gypsies, India has many mythical vampire figures. The Bhuta is the soul of a man who died an untimely death. It wandered around animating dead bodies at night and attacked the living like a ghoul. In northern India could be found the brahmaparusha, a vampire-like creature with a head encircled by intestines and a skull from which it drank blood.

The most famous Indian vampire is Kali who had fangs, wore a garland of corpses or skulls and had four arms. Her temples were near the cremation grounds. She and the goddess Durga battled the demon Raktabija who could reproduce himself from each drop of blood spilled. Kali drank all his blood so none was spilled, thereby winning the battle and killing Raktabija.

Sara or the Black Goddess is the form in which Kali survived among Gypsies. Gypsies have a belief that the three Marys from the New Testament went to France and baptised a Gypsy called Sara. They still hold a ceremony each May 24th in the French village where this is supposed to have occurred.

One Gypsy vampire was called a mullo (one who is dead). This vampire was believed to return and do malicious things and/or suck the blood of a person (usually a relative who had caused their death, or not properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying them as was proper.)

Female vampires could return, lead a normal life and even marry but would exhaust the husband. Anyone who had a hideous appearance, was missing a finger, or had animal appendages, etc. was believed to be a vampire.

Even plants or dogs, cats, or farm animals could become vampires. Pumpkins or melons kept in the house too long would start to move, make noises or show blood.

To get rid of a vampire people would hire a dhampire (the son of a vampire and his widow) to detect the vampire. To ward off vampires, gypsies drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial. They also placed hawthorn in the corpse's sock or drove a hawthorn stake through the legs. Further measures included driving stakes into the grave, pouring boiling water over it, decapitating the corpse, or burning it.

In spite of the disruption of Gypsy lives by the various eastern European communist regimes, they still retain much of their culture. In 1992 a new king of the Gypsies was chosen in Bistritz, Romania.

BATS AND COFFINS:

The truth about vampires turning into a bat, well, there is no truth at all. Vampires can't turn into a bat. Along with the coffin thing, they don't sleep at all. If you think I'm saying this because of Stephanie Meyar's Twilight, youre wrong. I did research on the the myths, and, 'vampire experts' say, that vampires DO NOT turn into bats, sleep in coffins, and they aren't afraid of garlic, it's just that their noses are sensitive and simply don't like the smell, it does nothing to repell them. (And the cross and holy water thing is a MYTH too.)

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VAMPIRE CONTROVERSY:

Today everyone is familiar with vampires, but in Britain very little was known of vampires prior to the 18th century. What brought the vampire to the attention of the general public? During the 18th century there was a major vampire scare in Eastern Europe. Even government officials frequently got dragged into the hunting and staking of vampires.

This controversy was directly responsible for England's current vampire myths. In fact, the word Vampire only came into English language in 1732 via an English translation of a German report of the much publicized Arnold Paole vampire staking in Serbia.

Western scholars seriously considered the existence of vampires for the first time rather than just brushing them off as superstition. It all started with an outbreak of vampire attacks in East Prussia in 1721 and in the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1725-1734.

Two famous cases involved Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole. Plogojowitz died at the age of 62, but came back a couple of times after his death asking his son for food. When the son refused, he was found dead the next day. Soon Plogojowitz returned and attacked some neighbours who died from loss of blood.

In the other famous case Arnold Paole, an ex-soldier turned farmer who had been attacked by a vampire years before, died while haying. After death people began to die and it was believed by everyone that Paole had returned to prey on the neighbours.

These two incidents were extremely well documented. Government officials examined the cases and the bodies, wrote them up in reports, and books were published afterwards of the Paole case and distributed around Europe. The controversy raged for a generation. The problem was exacerbated by rural people having an epidemic of vampire attacks and digging up bodies all over the place. Many scholars said vampires didn't exist - they attributed reports to premature burial, or rabies which causes thirst.

However, Dom Augustine Calmet, a well respected French theologian and scholar, put together a carefully thought out treatise in 1746 which said vampires did exist. This had considerable influence on other scholars at the time.

Eventually, Austrian Empress Marie Theresa sent her personal physician to investigate. He said vampires didn't exist and the Empress passed laws prohibiting the opening of graves and desecration of bodies. This was the end of the vampire epidemics. But by then everyone knew about vampires and it was only a matter of time before authors would preserve and mould the vampire into something new and much more accessible to the general public.

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10 What types of vampires are in existence?

This is a sampler of vampire legends from around the world.

- Asasabonsam: W. African. Folklore of the Ashanti people. Asasabonsam
are human looking vampires except that they have hooks instead of feet
and iron teeth. The Asasabonsam are tree dwelling vampires that live
deep in the forest. They sit in the tops of trees with their legs
dangling down which enables them to catch their victims with their
hooked feet. They tend to bite their victims on the thumb.

- Baital: Indian. These vampires natural form is that of a half-man,
half-bat creature roughly four feet tall. They are otherwise
unremarkable.

- Bajang: Malaysian. The bajang normally take the form of polecats.
Sorcerers could enslave and force them to kill his enemies, and some
families were believed to be hereditarily stalked by the bajang.

- Baobhan Sith: Scottish. The baobhan sith (pronounced buh-van she) are
evil fairies who appear as beautiful young women and will dance with
men they find until the men are exhausted and then feed on them. The
baobhan sith can be harmed and destroyed by cold iron.

- Callicantzaros (also spelled as Kallikantzaros): Medieval and Modern
Greece. According to Christian Greek folk belief, a child born during
the time from the beginning of Christmas to New Year's Day (or, in
some versions, to Epiphany, Jan. 6) will become a callicantzaros. It
is also during this period of the year that the callicantzaroi become
a threat to normal humans. Then they roam the countryside, sleeping in
caves during the day and entering villages at night. They can appear
half-human, half-animal shapes. At the end of this period, they travel
down caverns or other tunnels to Hades where they remain until the
next Christmas. While on the world's surface, a male Callicantzaros is
apt to kidnap a mortal woman to return with him to the underworld as
his bride and to bear his children who also become callicantzaroi. To
To prevent an infant of two mortal parents born during the Yuletide
season from becoming a callicantzaros, the infant was sometimes held
feet down over a fire until the toenails were singed. It was said that
the first victims of a callicantzaros whose parents were both mortal
were often his own brothers and sisters, whom he was apt to bite and
devour. The callicantzoroi are actually closer to werewolves than to
vampires--there is no direct connection with blood drinking--but they
are frequently described in nonfictional books about vampires.
(s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Ch'ing Shih: Chinese. Ch'ing shih appear livid and may kill with
poisonous breath in addition to draining blood. If a Ch'ing Shih
encounters a pile of rice, it must count the grains before it can pass
the pile. They can be harmed and destroyed by normal weapons and by
sunlight. Their immaterial form is a glowing sphere of light, much
like a will-o'-the-wisp.

- Civateteo: Mexican. These vampire-witches held Sabbaths at
crossroads and were believed to attack young children and to mate with
human men, producing children who were also vampires. They were
believed to be linked to the god Tezcatlipoca.

- Dearg-due: Irish. The dearg-due is a standard European vampire,
except that it cannot shapeshift and may be defeated by building a
cairn of stones over its grave.

- Empusa: Ancient Greece and Rome. Empusas appear as either beautiful
women or ancient hags. They are strongly related to the incubi and
succubi (q.v).

- Ekimmu: Assyrian. Montague Summers described the ekimmu as vampires,
but recent re-interpretations of "The Gilgamesh Epic" seem to refute
this conclusion. The ekimmu are simply the souls of those who died
without proper burial and so they wander the Netherworld looking for
peace, not blood.

- Hanh Saburo: Indian. These creatures live in forests and can control
dogs. They will attempt to lure or drive travelers into the forest to
attack them.

- Incubus: European. Incubi (plural of incubus) are sexual vampires.
They are spirit vampires of a demonic nature. The general way they
feed is by having sexual relations with the victim, exhausting them,
and feeding on the energy released during sex. They may enter homes
uninvited and can take on the appearance of other persons. They will
often visit the same victim repeatedly. A victim of an incubus will
experience the visits as dreams. The female version of an incubus is a
succubus. Closely related to the incubi/sucubi are the Slavic mora,
the German mahr, and the Scandinavian mara, from which the word
"nightmare" is derived.

- Jararaca: Brazilian. Normally appearing as snakes, jararaca are said
to drink the milk, as well as the blood, of sleeping women.

- Krvopijac: Bulgarian. Krvopijacs (also known as obours) look like
normal vampires except that they have only one nostril. They can be
immobilized by placing wild roses around their graves. One way to
destroy a krvopijac is for a magician to order its spirit into a
bottle, which must then be thrown into a fire.

- Lamia: Ancient Greece and Rome. Lamias are exclusively female
vampires. They often appear in half-human, half-animal forms and eat
the flesh of their victims in addition to drinking their blood. Lamias
can be attacked and killed with normal weapons.

- Loogaro: West Indies. Appearing as old women, these vampires go
abroad at night as blobs of light, much like the will-o'-the-wisp.

- Mulo: Gypsy. Gypsies all over Europe generally believed that the mulo
was the spirit of a dead person which left its corpse in its grave at
night and returned to the corpse at dawn. The mulo was generally
invisible but could be visible to certain people, in which case it
usually appeared in the original form of the dead person.

Some Gypsy clans believed that their muli were too loyal to their clan
to trouble them. But in the cases of clans who believed otherwise, esp.
in Balkan countries such as Kosova, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia, the
mulo often played the role of the vampire. The vampiric mulo mostly
preyed on sheep and cattle, but there are tales of entire households
being victimized by a mulo. In the Balkan countries, the adult male
mulo typically came at night to visit his widow or perhaps a woman he
had loved during his lifetime. In some versions of the story, he acted
kindly towards her, helping her with household tasks and regaining her
favor. Or, he might make demands on her for good tasting food, always
rejecting what she offered. While visible to his wife, he might at the
same time be invisible to other family members, behaving much like a
poltergeist. In a third version, the mulo is invisible even to his
wife--but he lies upon her and rapes her while she feels paralyzed and
is unable to cry out for help. In these chases, the widow may become
sick with terror, refuse food and drink, and eventually die.

Some Gypsies in Kosova believed that twin brothers and sisters born on
a Saturday could see a vampiric mulo if they wore their underwear and
shirts inside out. The mulo would flee as soon as it was seen by the
twins. A Gypsy practice in Moravia, now the eastern province of the
Czech Republic, was to use a hen's egg to bait and ambush an invisible
mulo. When the egg suddenly disappeared, the men would fire their guns
at the spot. (s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Nachzerer: German. These are ghosts of the recently dead that return
to kill their families.

- Rakshasa: Indian. The Rakshasas are powerful vampires of the spirit
variety. They usually appear as humans with animal features (claws,
fangs, slitted eyes, etc.) or as animals with human features
(flattened noses, hands, etc.). They often appear as tigers. In any
form, rakshasas are powerful magicians. They eat the flesh of their
victims in addition to drinking blood. Burning, sunlight, or exorcism
may destroy Rakshasas.

- Shtriga: Medieval and Modern Albanian. The Albanian Shtriga, like
the ancient Roman Stryx, is a witch who preys upon infants by drinking
their blood at night. But instead of transforming into an owl when she
goes for her midnight snack, she is more apt to take the form of a
flying insect. As recently as the early 20th century, many Albanians
regarded the Shtriga to be the most common cause of infant deaths.
(See also Veshtitza.) (s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Strigoi: Medieval and Modern Romania, including Transylvania. The
feminine form of the name is Strigoiaca. The terms derive from the name
of the blood-sucking, shape-changing, ancient Roman 'Stryx' [which see].
They apply to either a person who is already an undead vampire (Strigoi
Mort) or to one who is still living (Strigoi Viu) but predestined to
become a Strigoi Mort. In most ways, the Strigoi Morti resemble the
undead vampires found in other Eastern European countries. They can be
destroyed by such typical means as impaling with a stake or by cremating
them. They were often blamed as the cause of death in cases of epidemics
--with the dead victims frequently becoming Strigoi Morti, too.

The Strigoi Vii are more unusual. According to old Romanian folklore,
a person who is born with a caul (a veil of fetal membrane still
attached to the head), a small tail, or other peculiar circumstances
is a Strigoi Viu. While living, the Strigoi Viu is not a blood drinker,
but his powers include what could be called psychic vampirism--he can
steal the vitality of his neighbors' crops and animals to enhance his
own. Also, he can leave his body at night and travel in the form of an
animal or a small spark of light. Sometimes it was said that a Strigoi
Viu took animal form by stealing the form from the animal. The Strigoi
Vii join together in covens and meet with the Strigoi Morti on special
nights such as the Eve of St. George (April 22)--the same auspicious
night when Jonathan Harker meets Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel.
(s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Stryx: Ancient Roman. Stryx [plur: striges] literally means "screech
"owl" but the ancient Romans also applied the term to witches who
transformed into owls at night in order to prey upon infants, drinking
their blood and sometimes eating their internal organs. In modern
Italian, "striga" has become a general word for "witch". Ovid, in his
book _Fasti_, tells a story about an infant who was attacked each night
by a flock of striges. The demigoddess Crane is called upon to ward away
the striges by sprinklng the doorway with "drugged" water and placing a
branch of hawthorn in the window. In later European lore, hawthorn is
often as effective as garlic for warding away or confining vampires and
is the best material for stakes to pound through their hearts. [See also
Shtriga, Strigoi, and Veshtitza] (s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Vampir: Serbian. The vampir is naturally invisible but can be seen by
animals or by a dhampir [q.v], the living offspring of a vampir. The
Serbian vampir cannot shapeshift.

- Veshtitza: Medieval and modern Montenegro and Serbia. A blood drinking
witch similar to the Roman Stryx and the Albanian Shtriga [q.v.]. The.
soul of a Veshtitza leaves her body at night and enters the body of a
hen or black moth. In this body, the veshtitza flies about until she
finds a home where there are infants or young children. She drinks their
blood and eats their hearts. Veshtitze may join together to form covens,
the members of which flock together in the branches of trees at midnight
on certain nights to hold a meeting while they snack upon what they have
gathered earlier. Since it was commonly believed that witches become
vampires after they die, it seems unlikely that the natural death of a
veshtitza ends her drinking habit. (s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Vrykolakas: 17th - early 20th Century Greece. The term derives from the
Southern Slavic name Vorkudlak which can either mean an undead vampire
or a werewolf. The name Vrykolakas (plur: Vrykolakes) has variants such
as Vourkalakas and Vrukolakas. On the isle of Crete, the name is often
replaced by 'Kathakano". In some moutain regions on the mainland, the
term Vrykolakis could also apply to a shepherd who is compelled by the
full moon to go about biting and eating both man and beast. But most
generally it was applied to dead people who return from their graves,
bringing death to the living. When a dead person was suspected of being
a Vrykolakas, his corpse was exhumed to see if it had resisted decay.
Also, there was a religious practice of exhuming all corpses after three
years from their original burial. Typically, an exhumed corpse appeared
bloated and ruddy. This was interpreted as evidence that the body had
become a Vrykolakas and had gorged itself on the blood of its victims.

A person could become a Vrykolakas after death by having been
excommunicated, by having committed a serious crime or by having led a
sinful life. Those conceived or born on a holy day were predestined to
become Vrykolakes. Even if a person died without these taints, he was
apt to become a Vrykolakas if a cat jumped over his corpse before burial.
Though Vrykolakes were most active at night, they could also go about
during daylight. They were only obliged to be in their graves on each
Saturday. According to one report from the 17th century, revenant
Vrykolakes prowl at night, knocking on doors and calling out the names
of the inhabitants. Anyone who answered was doomed, but those who
resisted were spared. Perhaps this is the origin of the modern literary
tradition that a vampire cannot enter a home unless invited? Vrykolakes
can be destroyed by exorcism or burning. Yet another recourse was to
rebury the corpse on a desert island. This was done in belief that a
Vrykolakas could not cross sea water (s/b Patrick Johnson)

- Wampir: Polish and Russian. Wampiri appear exactly as normal humans
and have a "sting" under their tongue rather than fangs. They are active
from noon until midnight. A vampir may only be destroyed by burning.
When burned, the wampir's body will burst, releasing hundreds of small,
disgusting maggots, rats, etc. If any of these escape, the wampir's
"spirit" will escape as well and will later return to seek revenge.
Wampiri may also be called vieszcy and upierczi.

Of course, this list is not exhaustive. Some other regional variants
on the vampire are: Austrian dracul, Amer. Indian kwakiytl, Bohemian
ogolgen, Brazilian lobishomen, African otgiruru, African owenga,
Romanian avarcolac, Babylonian sharabisu, Greek brucolacas, Tibetan
khadro, Singhalese kattakhanes, and Hindu kalika.

thursday the third

3/3/2011

hi bloggie =)
I'm studying Sejarah right now but I decided to spend sometime blogging :P
dammit ! Sejarah is so hard :(
I din't even study finish one subject..
and the test starts on this Saturday D:
I think I'm going to send my com to repair this week. I can't stand it anymore !!
hey.. I was spending my night time reading Eclipse and once again, without surprise, I fall in love with Edward cullen again :P
I was very crazy about Edward the last time and I think it nearly creep my friends xDD
Edward is just so attractive and gorgeous !
He is fair-skinned, golden eyes, perfect face .. everything !
Jacob isn't bad too ! young, russet-colored skin , strong and warm :)
There is a large contrast between Edward and Jacob, see?
I think I would choose Edward in this case. He is more towards my type of Dream Prince =PP
My advice - falling in love with ur imaginary boy is so much better than reality =D
Everything is perfect and pretty .
Okay. This may be the last time I ONLINE before Gerak Gempur test !
see ya soon !
all the best guys, for the test X))
Lurbbe Edward Cullen the vampire