Death was not always the end. In the frozen nights of Eastern Europe, villagers believed the dead could rise — not as ghosts, but as hungry corpses that fed on the living. These were the first vampires: the strigoi, upir, and restless dead that haunted villages from the Balkans to the Carpathians.This episode of Myth & Magic uncovers the true origin of the vampire myth — from medieval burial rituals and vampire panics to the legends that shaped modern horror.🌙 Explore the dark folklore of Slavic and Balkan lands.⚰️ Discover why villagers staked graves and buried the dead face-down.🩸 Learn how the vampire transformed from terrifying corpse to timeless icon.Step into the old nights, where the line between life and death was never certain.

🎙️ Narrated by TotalEcho | A Chronica Arcana Original

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