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Riga 17:
:''As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person. Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju (dragon) he becomes henceforward the devil’s aide-de-camp, and assists him in "making the weather," that is to say, preparing the thunderbolts.<br>A small lake, immeasurably deep, lying high up among the mountains to the south of Hermanstadt, is supposed to be the cauldron where is brewed the thunder, and in fair weather the dragon sleeps beneath the waters. Roumenian peasants anxiously warn the traveller to beware of throwing a stone into this lake lest it should wake the dragon and provoke a thunderstorm. It is, however, no mere superstition that in summer there occur almost daily thunderstorms at this spot, about the hour of midday, and numerous cairns of stones round the shores attest the fact that many people have here found their death by lightning. On this account the place is shunned, and no Roumenians will venture to rest here at the hour of noon.''
 
*Decisamente più maligno, però, è il [[vampiro]], o ''nosferatu'', in cui ogni contadino rumeno crede fermamente quanto in paradiso o inferno. Ci sono due tipi di vampiri — viventi e morti. Il vampiro vivente è in genere la prole illegittima di due persone illegittime, ma anche un pedigree immacolato non è una garanzia contro l'intrusione d'un vampiro nella propria cripta di famiglia, siccome ogni persona uccisa da un ''nosferatu'' diventa a sua volta un vampiro dopo la morte, continuerà a succhiare il sangue di altre persone innocenti affinché lo spirito non venga esorcizzato, o aprendo la tomba della persona sospettata e conficcando un palo nel cadavere, o sparando la bara con una pistola. In casi molto ostinati viene inoltre consigliato di tagliare la testa e rimetterla nella bara con la bocca riempita di aglio, o di estrarre il cuore e bruciarlo, spargendo le ceneri sopra la tomba.
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:''More decidedly evil, however, is the vampire, or'' nosferatu, ''in whom every Roumenian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell. There are two sorts of vampires—living and dead. The living vampire is in general the illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons, but even a flawless pedigree will not ensure anyone against the intrusion of a vampire into his family vault, since every person killed by a'' nosferatu ''becomes likewise a vampire after death, and will continue to suck the blood of other innocent people till the spirit has been exorcised, either by opening the grave of the person suspected and driving a stake through the corpse, or firing a pistol shot into the coffin. In very obstinate cases it is further recommended to cut off the head and replace it in the coffin with the mouth filled with garlic, or to extract the heart and burn it, strewing the ashes over the grave.''