THE MAGIC OF SUPERSTITIONS AND POPULAR BELIEFS.

Popular superstitions claim that a human-vampire automatically changes after death into a deadundead or a walking corpse, as the nowadays zombies, except when it is freed of death. In the mythical concept the dead- undead has a bigger demonic power than he had in his life. The mythology of death includes an interesting part called demonology which is the most complex one in the Romanian mythology. The explanation is mainly due to the cultural impact that the early migratory peoples had on the native settled Romanians, whose mythology was mainly demonological. As the old magic folk superstitions and beliefs make the sources of all ancient sciences, it is understandable that archaic medicine was nothing but a complex of enigmatic magic formulas. Nations were controlled by the magic of superstitions and popular beliefs which have subjected them through the power of mind. The struggle between the forces of good and evil that last for centuries of civilization made man the slave of popular legitimate or illegitimate superstitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]