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Riga 20:
:''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.''
 
*Gli zingari assumono una posizione diversa di quella dei rumeni e dei sassoni in quanto la superstizione, siccome potrebbero ben essere considerati le cause dirette e i moventi principali di superstizione piuttosto che vittime stesse della credulità. Non si può aspettare che lo zigano, la cui religione è di una natura talmente superficiale che raramente crede in qualcosa di complicato come l'immortalità dell'anima, possa conferire maggior peso al soprannaturale; e se evita per istinto tali posti come i cimiteri, i patiboli, ecc., i suoi sentimenti sono più quelli di un bambino che si sottrae dall'essere rammentato di qualsiasi cosa di così sgradevole come la morte e la sepoltura.
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:''The gipsies take up a different position as regards superstition from either Roumenian or Saxon, since they may be rather considered to be direct causes and mainsprings of superstition, than victims of credulity themselves. The Tzigane, whose religion is of such an extremely superficial nature that he rarely believes in anything as complicated as the immortality of the soul, can hardly be supposed to lay much weight upon the supernatural; and if he instinctively avoids such places as churchyards, gallow-trees, &c., his feelings are rather those of a child who shirks being reminded of anything so unpleasant as death or burial.''