Ep.7: Legends and Mysteries in Serbia

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that looks

like we are gonna be like fortune tellers but you're not

no it doesn't this is supposed to be a topic horror stories or like

kind of like scary stories legends yeah from serbia from serbia uh i do

have to say i don't know many of them so I'm really curious to

see what we're gonna learn today yeah I don't know

some of them by heart I just found them on the internet hoping that

you would know the details

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okay so why did we choose this first of all why

did we want to cover legends and mysteries from serbia i think initially we

were thinking of

having like a halloween episode but then the halloween was gone and we were

really busy yeah guys we didn't have an episode last week so um yeah

quite busy these weeks i think it's

going to be months so that was an initial initial thought but you also

heard a lot of or like some

stories about serbia so um yeah it was why not why not it's i

think culturally it's also really

cool to know i also went to a piazza a market and i realized

there are so many flowers and i asked the seller said it's the day

of debts that people so that's why I was like okay this is something

that I don't know maybe our followers also don't know let's talk about this

first of all legends

let's start with legends did you grow up listening to legends or reading legends

or I have to be

honest I I haven't really that much I think a lot of the the

legends or so on were mostly like about marco kraljevic of course you know

and there were some kids kind of stories where uh actually i read some

of them like where you should get some sort of

message from it and some of them are quite i mean for the kid

i mean i mean it's quite brutal

and quite scary when we were listening to them they were not they did

not sound like that that

much but now when i'm reading like whoa this is a horrible story like

animals eating people and so it's just crazy.

So, but I do have to say i'm really excited for this

episode because i don't know a lot i haven't heard a lot of horror

stories maybe my friends

were trying to protect me so yeah scary stories or whatever yeah as we

already mentioned who is

this marco marco krajevic i would think we had we talked about him in

one episode didn't we i'm not sure i think we did we was um

was the uh oh yes it was a serbian literature yeah yeah

literature and there was a lot of stories about him and he's kind of

seen as the uh hero yes

hero of serbia even though he was muslim actually if you think about it

yeah he was know that yeah

so um there's a lot of stories about him and him his heroic deeds

towards serbian people during the Ottoman Empire.

So the most famous one is Marco and the Eagle, I guess, right?

Ooh, I don't know that one.

What is it about?

I'm not sure.

I read it, but I cannot retell it.

will leave the link.

So I

It's a long story.

So it's hard to remember the details.

We can add also the

links on Patreon, right?

I think that will be a really good opportunity for them to use the

links. a bit more links then yeah yeah okay who are the other heroes

oh i see you wrote down some of the

things this is so if you guys don't know much about serbia like when

serbia started being i

think officially it still wasn't a country if i'm mistaken but it started being

governed by

certain people and one of them was stefan nemania so it's the whole nemanici

the whole family so i think yeah we even like the new statue in

front of in belgrade in front of the main

station yeah stefan emania exactly huge guy

yes yeah the huge guy actually yeah pick a statue there i guess yeah

um and also

his son is quite um famous famous respected as well sveti sala because

he was the how do you say he was important for the education in

serbia because he was the one who was spreading basically the education in Serbia

he he was a but yeah is it a monk I don't know but

yeah but he's also responsible for for some monasteries and so on and this

is exactly where

the education was happening right in monasteries mostly in churches and so on at

that time

and that this beautiful church house and Sawa in Valgrady is also a landmark

yes exactly oh yeah yeah and and just for everyone to know because monasteries

are such and and churches are such preserving our history in them

they're really a big part of our culture

and i think they can even do tours where you can go through serbia

and visit monasteries and so on

so that's a that's a maybe an interesting thing to do before we continue

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Tarlazar is also famous here because we have a neighborhood, Lazarica.

Oh! Yeah.

and there's this tower there so it's a historic nice place in in kuru

shawadz nazaritsa neighborhood i mean okay uh as you said the royal prince um

there's a we are very proud people so

we we like to you know kind of give ode to certain people but

also to we that's why also we have a lot of like saints and

celebrate them still okay you have these real uh heroes and you also have

I'm not sure real or unreal

kind of bad guys right are they bad guys or good guys

I think if you look at today's series and movies they're the good guys

you know they're heroes yeah yeah it was uh so the reason why we

talk about vampires is because it's the only serbian word

that's been used globally and why is it is that because everyone knows about

dracula right but

this is like a different thing and originated from transylvania but vampir supposedly

let's say it

originated from serbia because we we there were some stories about certain people that

were acting some

a bit weirdly and sucking blood and sleeping the whole day and stuff like

that. So this is where the vampire comes from.

And actually, there's lots of literature about that, actually.

I do have to say no one really talked to me about this.

But I did, when I was younger, I did read about it.

Because, yeah, you know, you're younger.

You got curious.

Yeah. spooky and like magic and like vampires and so on so yeah that's

very interesting when i was

growing up i had never i guess had a vampire story like local vampire

story so that feels cool

you know you know what's the worst thing that it's not really like fun

stories you know these

stories are not like fun like legend myths it the way they are told

is as as is like a documentary in a way so it's not really

like a thing you talk like tell other people or like kids or someone

it's like you're not really quite sure what happened so it's like this this

but

true story that

you don't really like want to mess with so i think the first the

first official vampire that we had

in our uh documents i also think it was also in austrian documents he

was there they were like talking about a vampire like sucking blood sucking person

Petar Blagojevic okay Petar Blagojevic

so that's a quite Serbian name quite Serbian 17 I found that he lived

around 1720s or something

like that I think the story went out in 1725 something like that and

he was from a village called I'm going to butcher the way how you

pronounce it. I don't know if it's kisilevo or kisilevo i would say kisilevo

but i'm probably wrong i don't know okay where is that

like in now in current serbia or yeah it's in current serbia oh i

i actually googled where it

was because you know uh i don't think i think that i think this

one is i think all of the stories are basically like mid-central serbia for

some reason i don't know so the story was the story was that

he died and then some people just started dying you know and then uh

they basically said

oh it's him i think it was the talk was that he got infected

somewhere in greece or something like that and then they opened his grave and

then they found that his body was intact and there was

supposedly blood on his lips so they did the very typical thing which is

take a stake run it through his heart and also they burned him okay

and i think the austrian officials were there because they needed to make sure

that it was done okay so the austrians were more afraid they wanted

to control what's going yeah they're like do it finish with it yeah okay

so he's uh he was like

a religious guy right his like possession possession his position was like a resnick

right oh you see i didn't know what you meant by this no i

didn't read that i didn't see that what did you read so resnik is

a i don't know in orthodox as urban orthodox um religion's kind of a

title man i don't know what that means i thought you would know that's

why i didn't write

resnik i'm really bad at this sorry guys just know the horror things um

yeah he was the first

vampire petash yeah and then he might not be the most known one but

the second one was one of the

most known ones which was sava savanovic he was from zarzje and i think

if i'm not mistaken that one is near baina bashta so near tara again

central serbia basically i mean central in the

sense that it's not north it's not south it's in the middle um and

he was also mentioned in the

story of milo and glisic i think that's one of the reasons why he's

the most famous one of the most famous ones and um so you

said you wrote taking a black horse to cemetery cemetery it's not about so

we will come to that it's about vampire culture ah okay okay but i

think they did something similar that they had to like bring a horse and

i think they've had this

whole ceremony the same thing all over again but he was one of the

most uh popular popular ones

uh but yeah nothing they don't really like these uh that's why it's not

really like a story they I don't really go in depth about what happened,

but they kind of just mentioned it.

They were like weird occurrences happening and people dying.

And therefore, they need to open it up and then just stab them.

Yeah. While looking at those stories, I realized this is also done by Montenegro.

Oh, yeah.

When they are suspicious of the existence of a vampire,

they take a black horse to the cemetery and then

they find the vampire i guess during the day they do that yeah because

they're sleeping during the

day right but the horses feel them that's fine especially black horses according to

the belief

well i read something about horses not about black horses but i'm guessing that

some sort of superstition with like black cats black horses black there is

another tradition is garlic necklaces so if people want to perfect themselves they make

necklaces out of garlics thank god we love garlic in serbia thank god so

we have a lot

that's how you survive as a nation i mean actually if you think about

it that's really

like a really good strategy just to keep like having garlic and eating garlic

because it's a good what is it antibiotic right is that how it's called

yeah antiseptic as well there you go so

garlic does wonders hey it it how do you it fights the vampire plus

also the the cold and the

diseases so no wonder it's it's been on a pedestal um i'm gonna also

check the pictures why he is

called the most beautiful vampire i was surprising i've never heard that

what's beautiful are you checking now no not now okay i will i will

prepare uh posts with that

if i really find him handsome well guys we want your spooky stories if

you know if you know more

spooky stories in serbia about serbia in serbia we want to know i read

some stories about these legends and also like horror stories and there

is one he whom god helps no one can harm have you ever heard

of this story

no uh it has three parts a very long story in each

part there is a different you know

action different drama and in one i am not sure which one there's a

fight with vampires so he has to kill the vampires the youngest good brother

to prove that he deserves to marry the queen like the

princess it's like is it is so typical like i feel like all of

these stories like there's always

three brothers there's always the youngest one who's the most humble one and then

he needs to

kill someone to get the girl you know like it's so weird and the

girl loves him too so he just wants to prove that their love is

real and stuff so that's a fun to read story

um that actually uh now that you mentioned that maybe we should go to

the the legends

uh first because you wrote something about the pavilion neither in the sky nor

on the earth

yeah i cannot retell that story again it's a very long one but do

you know that yes and i'm not gonna retell it either because i think

it this how can you say it's not that long

but it's very eventful and you really need like have there's a lot of

information but

basically there's a lot of death there's a lot of betrayal there's the brothers

three brothers

again of course and uh it's just it's just weird like this some of

these stories like morals i just can't uh yeah but it's about a as

far as i know it's about a uh dragon that kidnaps a girl actually

he's been a dragon has been kidnapping girls and eating them

and every week i think or so one has to die from a village

and it's just this whole thing

but yeah this is and there should be some sort of message in there

i don't know message i'm pretty sure there is some good message but i

just and that when i was

reading i remember i was just shocked so yeah let's hope that some hero

realizes this unfair situation and then kills the dragon maybe um

we will link by the way these stories in serbia and

i know i have some links in serbia so you can actually read it

and then you can tell us uh

what you think about them yeah what do you think the message is this

story yeah and did you hear

about pepe liuga i know there's a different story from the disney one right

but man i can't remember now it is cinderella right it is cinderella but

it's it's a different version than what we have in

disney right hmm i'm not sure i thought it's the kind of the same

i think there was no happy ending

or something like that maybe maybe the ending is so it's about the beautiful

girl who lost her parents and stepmother ugly half sisters always ugly sisters it's

always ugly the bad people are

always ugly yeah right pepe yuga uh pepe yuga derives from pepe which

is ash ashes

okay because she's always dirty like ashy right because she's cleaning and there's like

yeah and then somehow she goes to a party prince falls in love with

yeah

her i guess it's the same But it's going to be interesting for Serbian

learners to read this story because

they already know the basics of this story so it's going to be easy

to read and unfollow it maybe

yeah yeah yeah always go whenever you're reading something in a new language always

go from

somewhere something that you already have read or at least know the plot and

much easier to follow it and predict yeah definitely and read that story not then it's going to be

only once a couple of times so that you remember the verbs better by

the way just not to forget vampires

that's how we say it plural singular vampire yeah yeah

that's true and blood is yes yeah it's

this weird little curvy uh yeah

yeah curvy yeah okay that's that's good good Mikey good yeah

and the final part is witches of course I love that one because

because I was so I when I was a teenager I used to watch

Charmed if you remember oh I was so into it and I think I

was always drawn

to like kind of not really witchcraft but like magic more and now when

I think about it I think

I mean there are certain fantasy world that I loved about it of course