Re: [tied] Re: Vampire, i Dorogaya

Andy Howey wrote:

> I would have to question how Slavic "drag"/"dorog" (dear/expensive)
> could come to be equated with any semblance of (devil). It seems
> rather far-fetched to me, especially considering how extreme Dark Age
> "christians" <<lower case intentional>> were; ie. the Inquisitions.
> It seems to me that anyone who would make any sort of such demonic
> equations would be putting his/her life on the line. Perhaps the
> Orthodox Church didn't honor the Roman Catholic call to expose and
> punish (burn) so-called heretics (I don't know -- did they or did
> they not?), but making such an equation would still have been
> extremely perilous.
>
> Andy Howey

So far I know the Orthodox Church did not persecuted in that way the
heretics as we know it from the Catolic Churc (inquisition & stuff). I
am aware about the problems in the VI-VIII century in the so-called
"iconoclasts" persecutions but that was before the Church split took
place and it seems there have been not specialy punishments against
"heretics" but more , a way (and wars) for imposing a certain rule of
how the Christianity has to be lead out.
As for Slavic "drag", I would like to see too the root it does derive
from and which is the relationship/derivatives within the Slavic family.

Alex