Comments on: The One Who Eats The Sun and Moon

By: VampyreFerrahJingle

VampyreFerrahJingle — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:29:28 +0000

Out of all the vampire species and such I’ve heard and read of the Varcolaci is my favorite now. I ,for some wierd reason, love things that involve the eclipse and finding a type of vampire that does not drink blood is a good different. Still love the blood drinking but, ‘chomping on the heavens’ is a bit more awesome:)

By: VampiresFTW

VampiresFTW — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:52:15 +0000

People actualy belived some of that?? One day, I want to go to Romanian. Not just for the vampires, but also for the history.

By: Moonlight

Moonlight — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:06 +0000

Obviously I was being sarcastic, but as a whole the world sees Romania as the land of the vampires. It’s the stereotype, just like people think the USA is full of lazy fat people, England is full of tea drinkers with bad teeth and France is full of rude smelly people. It’s the stereotype, not necessarily true.
And if you read past posts you’ll see those other vampires have been covered as well.

By: K

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:49:23 +0000

“honestly, that’s pretty much ALL it is known for”
Meh. For the educated segment of population, Romania is also known for Mircea Eliade for example, one of the most famous historians of religions; he probably provided indirectly a lot of information found nowadays in any topic dealing with religion, supersition or beliefs. Anne Rice mentions him among her bibliografical sources, and i think somewhere in the books, if that makes it sound more interesting. Romania is also known for Eugen Ionescu, who is basically the creator of absurd theater, or Brancusi, one of the pioneers of modern sculpture..or surrealist painter Victor Brauner..or philosopher Emil Cioran..and so on.
But of course, i don’t expect these names to ring a bell for the typical “omg lolz i luv vampires & wanna be 1″ vampire fan who might be reading this.
By the way, the varcolaci are rather werevolves than vampires, or at least that’s what they became in Romanian folklore, although “werewolf” is not a perfectly accurate description. Which reminds me, they’re not so Romanian neither, i think these legends are borrowed from the Slavs. The Greeks have their vrykolakas too, but it’s likely they borrowed the word as well.
The creature closest to a vampire is a strigoi. This one is closely related to the italian strega (they have a common root in the latin word striga, a sort of demoness), but a strega is merely a witch, so the strigoi character might have been influenced by Slavic legends too.
Greetings, and excuse my English.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:20:49 +0000

Could this be the origin of the (Greek?)word “vrykolakas”?

By: Andreea

Andreea — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:21:33 +0000

Yeah sure…lots of vampires and varcolaci here in Romania, place is full of them :)))
I’m from Romania and i’ve just stumbled on this article , this extremely funny article.
Yeah, we have a rich mythological tradition , and you can hear stories about creatures like “varcolaci” , or “balauri” ( some sort of a dragon )or…vampires and so… but the only thing that you will find in the carpathian mountains are hotels , pensions , some scared bears that are eating from dump-stares and lots and lots of trash, sadly.
So…if there were to be any vampires , balauri , varcolaci or any other creatures like so ,they will probably go to another country like norway or something …i know i would .
SO STOP SAYING THERE ARE VAMPIRES IN ROMANIA !…