The legend of Brodka, the Polish witch who became a "vampire"

Witches, vampires, werewolves, goblins...anything served in preterite times to explain all those misfortunes that our ancestors found incomprehensible.It was not only apparently uncultured people who believed in those beings, but theologians , preachers and priests contributed to weave their legends .For a long time in a small town in Poland they were frightened by the legend of Brodka, the beautiful Polish witch who became a "vampire" , and not in a normal vampire..., in a "chewer".

The legend of Brodka, the Polish witch

In 1751 a French theologian named Dom Agustin Calmet wrote a book about vampires and apparitions.In his work he spoke of a special type of vampire: the chewers. Calmet believed that these vampires entered a strange hunger that made them devour the fabrics of their mo rtajas.He was not the first to speak of these beings. The legend of Brodka was woven in the fourteenth century.

The legend of Brodka, the Polish witch who became a

Hajek of Libotschan picked up in her Bohemian Chronicle the case of a chewing vampire told by the abbot Neplach Opatowitz in the year 1370 .The story that became a legend goes like this:

In 1345 a potter married to Lewin lived in Lewin a woman who was known as a witch named Brodka .One day Brodka appeared dead in her house, brutally murdered.The villagers and the husband believed that the woman had invoked some kind of spirit Evil and they had killed her.As they did not want to bury her in sacred ground they buried her at a crossroads .

Terror took hold of the villagers when some shepherds affirmed h to see her in the field taking the form of various animals and hunting her flocks.On other occasions she showed the same way she had in life and appeared in her people and in the surrounding areas, getting to talk to the neighbors and causing a great death every time he did.These, terrified, decided to exhume his body to see if it really was missing from his grave.his body was horrified that had devoured half the veil that covered his head.He was completely removed from his throat bloodstained .

The legend of Brodka, the Polish witch who became a

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