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Title: RSSS 315 SEVenth Week

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RSSS 315 (SEVenth Week)

Slavic Folklore Vampires and Werewolves

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Today

Exam and papers
Discussion of werewolf stories
Next reading Rice Werewolf tales

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Daughters of Darkness

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More Versions

La notte dei diavoli (Night of the Devils) 1971
Giorgio Ferroni

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Humor

Mark of the Vampire 1935
The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967
Love at First Bite 1979

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Film Versions The Hunger (1983)
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Carmilla

Carmilla films
Dreyers Vampyr 1932
Vadims To Die With Pleasure 1960
Kumels Daughters of Darkness 1971
Tony ScottsThe Hunger 1983

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Carl Dreyers Vampyr (1932)

Famous expressionist film director (Danish
1889-1968)
Evil presence, atmosphere
Two daughters, one infected
Reassuring male presence

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Film Versions of Carmilla/Bathory The Hunger
(1983)
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Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Another cult classic
Harry Kumel
Combines Carmilla and Bathory

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Interpreting Stoker

Religious
Sociological
Psychological
Formalist

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Religious

Good vs Evil
Infectiousness of evil
Links with darkness, decay, death
Opposition to Christianity
Allegory
Example Only defense is purity of heart,
sacrificial love

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Formalist

Sources folklore and literary
Themes and motifs
Narrative technique, e.g., unreliable narrators
Gothic elements
Sources (literary and folkloric)

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Sociological (Social, Historical, Cultural)

Economic
Capital, expanding markets
Monopoly on resources
Feminist
Gender roles (Mina and Lucy, Lucy in Nosferatu)
Patriarchy (e.g., restoration of patriarchy in
the end)
Dealing the other, aliens

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Psychological (mostly psychoanalytical)

Displaced sexuality
Oedipal themes
Patricide
Matricide
Incest
Pre-Oedipal
Dealing with repressed fears (about the other,
about death)

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Psychological (Psychoanalytical) issues (Alan
Dundes)

Sucking, biting, thirsting, death and rebirth
Links with milk and blood
Oral sadism
Attraction, repulsion ambivalence
Projection revenge of the dead

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Key passages

Jonathan and the daughters
Killing of Lucy
Seduction of Mina

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Chapter 21

He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door
did not yield. We threw ourselves against it.
With a crash it burst open, and we almost fell
headlong into the room. The Professor did
actually fall, and I saw across him as he
gathered himself up from hands and knees. What I
saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like
bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart
seemed to stand still.

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The scene

The moonlight was so bright that through the
thick yellow blind the room was light enough to
see. On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan
Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as
though in a stupor. Kneeling on the near edge of
the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure
of his wife. By her side stood a tall, thin man,
clad in black. His face was turned from us, but
the instant we saw we all recognized the Count,
in every way, even to the scar on his forehead.

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Actions

With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's
hands, keeping them away with her arms at full
tension. His right hand gripped her by the back
of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom.
Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and
a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest
which was shown by his torn-open dress. The
attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to
a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of
milk to compel it to drink.

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Aftermath-1

As we burst into the room, the Count turned his
face, and the hellish look that I had heard
described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed
red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of
the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered
at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind
the full lips of the blood dripping mouth,
clamped together like those of a wild beast.

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After-2

With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon
the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned
and sprang at us. But by this time the Professor
had gained his feet, and was holding towards him
the envelope which contained the Sacred Wafer.
The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had
done outside the tomb, and cowered back. Further
and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our
crucifixes, advanced.

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After-3

The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black
cloud sailed across the sky. And when the
gaslight sprang up under Quincey's match, we saw
nothing but a faint vapor. This, as we looked,
trailed under the door, which with the recoil
from its bursting open, had swung back to its old
position.

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Mina?

Van Helsing, Art, and I moved forward to Mrs.
Harker, who by this time had drawn her breath and
with it had given a scream so wild, so
ear-piercing, so despairing that it seems to me
now that it will ring in my ears till my dying
day. For a few seconds she lay in her helpless
attitude and disarray. Her face was ghastly, with
a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which
smeared her lips and cheeks and chin. From her
throat trickled a thin stream of blood. Her eyes
were mad with terror.

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Mina-2

Then she put before her face her poor crushed
hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark
of the Count's terrible grip, and from behind
them came a low desolate wail which made the
terrible scream seem only the quick expression of
an endless grief. Van Helsing stepped forward and
drew the coverlet gently over her body, whilst
Art, after looking at her face for an instant
despairingly, ran out of the room.

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Van Helsing

Van Helsing whispered to me, "Jonathan is in a
stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce.
We can do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a few
moments till she recovers herself. I must wake
him!"

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Her account 1

"Then he spoke to me mockingly, And so you, like
the others, would play your brains against mine.
You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate
me in my design! You know now, and they know in
part already, and will know in full before long,
what it is to cross my path. They should have
kept their energies for use closer to home.
Whilst they played wits against me, against me
who commanded nations, and intrigued for them,
and fought for them, hundreds of years before
they were born, I was countermining them. And
you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh
of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin, my
bountiful wine-press for a while, and shall be
later on my companion and my helper. You shall be
avenged in turn, for not one of them but shall
minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be
punished for what you have done. You have aided
in thwarting me. Now you shall come to my call.
When my brain says "Come!" to you, you shall
cross land or sea to do my bidding. And to that
end this!'

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Account 2

With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his
long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast.
When the blood began to spurt out, he took my
hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with
the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to
the wound, so that I must either suffocate or
swallow some to the . . .

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Minas Reaction

Oh, my God! My God! What have I done? What have I
done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to
walk in meekness and righteousness all my days.
God pity me! Look down on a poor soul in worse
than mortal peril. And in mercy pity those to
whom she is dear!" Then she began to rub her lips
as though to cleanse them from pollution.

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Restoration of Conventional Family

More on Little Quincey
What is his parentage?

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Werewolf Cult

English word at base
Central and Southeast Europeans had cults, but
different terms
Universal changelings, animal-human relations

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Characteristics of East European Werewolves

Changelings rusalki, samovily
Animal cults link with mysteries of universe
Cannibalism, eating flesh, drinking blood

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Pre-historic times (all before 9th AD)

ritual wearing of wolf pelts all before 9th AD

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Later

Stories of vukodlaks (and related forms) chasing
clouds, devouring sun and moon 13th 16th
centuries
Related terms (utilizing wolf as root) refer to
vampires in South and Central Europe
E.g., Dark Wolf (2003) is titled Vukodlak in
Czech
Linguistic changes in different areas many
similar terms for vampires and werewolves in
Eastern Europe, the Balkans (different language
groups)

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Vseslav of Polotsk Early Historical Werewolf?

Belarusian Prince, 1030-1101
Great Grand-Grandson of Vladimir
Werewolf-sorcerer reputation (Vseslav the
Magician-Charodei)
Could turn to a grey wolf, a clear falcon or a
deer with gold horns

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Igor Tale

In the seventh age of Troian, Vseslav cast lots
for a girl,         a maiden he desired for
himself.Sustained by cunning, he mounted a horse
and galloped to Kiev,         touched the shaft
of his spear on the gold Kievan throne.He leapt
away from them at Belgorod        like a wild
beast at midnight wrapped in a blue mist. Three
times he grasped good fortune, opened the gates
of Novgorod,        smashed the glory of
Iaroslav, and as a wolf leapt to the Nemiga. He
blew clean the threshing floor.On the Nemiga
sheaves are spread like heads         they
thresh them with damask flails.On the threshing
floor they lay down life and winnow souls from
bodies. The Nemiga's bloody banks were sown with
evil,        sown with the bones of the sons of
Rus.Prince Vseslav judged the people he ruled
the cities for the princes,         but at night
he roamed as a wolf.From Kiev, before the cock's
crow, he could lope to Tmutorokan         as a
wolf he crossed the path of great Horus.They
rang the bells for him at matins, early at St.
Sophia, in Polotsk         he heard the sound
in Kiev.And though his wizard's soul journeyed
in another body,         still he often suffered
misfortune.Of him the wizard Boian first spoke
well-devised words        "Neither the skillful
one nor the craftiest creature,        not even
the cleverest bird, will escape the Judgment of
God." 0 groan, Russian land, recalling the first
time and the first princes.