Re: [tied] Re: Vampire

-og7 is a suffix like in ostrog7. The stem *rar- with a different suffix can
be seen in Croatian rarov "a kind of eagle". *rar7 is made with the suffix
*-r7 like in dar7 and pir7 from dati and piti, and the very stem *ra- is
most likely onomatopoeic origin.

Mate

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vampire


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> > In Poland, a
> > <strzyga> was a feminine blood-sucking or flesh-eating night demon,
> > transforming herself into an owl to fly from place to place. An
> > unbaptised baby who died could turn into one (especially if born
> with
> > teeth). Strigas were eliminated like vampires -- by burning, or by
> > driving stakes or blessed nails through their bodies. The masculine
> > counterpart <strzygon'> is to all practical purposes a synonym of
> the
> > vampire.
>
> (The reflexes of) Proto-Slavic *rarogU 'falcon' also seem to mean
> some supernatural being (another Balcanism?). BTW, is anybody aware
> of the word's etymology?
>
> Sergei
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