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" ................... Site Index Synopsis Introduction Index of People Index by Profession Extracts From The Book: Princess Marthe Bibesco Ana Blandiana Smaranda Braescu Madelene “Madi” Cancicov Nina Cassian Elena Ceausescu Ioana Celibidache Queen Elisabeth of Romania Princess Gregoire Ghica Princess Ileana of Romania Dora D’Istria Monica Lovinescu Ileana Malancioiu Queen Marie of Romania Dr. Agnes Kelly Murgoci Mabel Nandris Countess Anna de Noailles Ana Novac Oana Orlea Ana Pauker Marta Petreu Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara Sanda Stolojan Leontina Vaduva Anca Visdei Sabina Wurmbrand |
"Blouse Roumaine" - Extracts from the Book .................................................................................................. selected and introduced by Constantin Roman. Dr. Agnes Kelly Murgoci, .................................................................................................. (b. Fullarton, South Australia, 1875 – d. Isle of White,, England,1929) Scientist, Ethnographer, wife of Professor G. Murgoci, Romanian Vampire: "If the vampire is not recognized as such, and rendered innocuous [i.e.: if it is not recognized that a person dead and buried has become a vampire, and steps such as exhuming the corpse and driving a stake through its heart or cremating it are not taken], it goes on with its evil ways for seven years. First it destroys its relations, then it destroys men and animals in its village and in its country, next it passes into another country, or to where another language is spoken, and becomes a man again. He marries, and has children, and the children, after they die, all become vampires and eat the relations of their mother." "There was a time when vampires were as common as leaves of grass, or berries in a pail, and they never kept still, but wandered round at night among the people. They walked about and joined the evening gatherings in the villages, and, when their were many young people together, the vampires could carry out their habit of inspiring fear, and sucking human blood like leeches." (in : "The Vampire in Roumania", ”FOLK-LORE”, vol. xxvii, -------------------------- Biography: Agness Murgoci, née Kelly studied Zollogy at Bedford College London and subsequently at the University of Munich where she was the first woman to take a doctorate in Zoology. She met and married her future geologist husband Gheorghe Murgoci, in London and from then on Agnes Murgoci devoted her life to the research of Romanian folklore and customs. She became fascinated by the philosophy of the fairy tales and the relation between body and soul, issued from traditions embedded in very ancient and primitive pre-Christian cultures. In her quest for such tales Murgoci learned that the soul would not leave the body for fourty days after death and sometimes even years. Such phenomena were linked to the existence of vampires. The findings of Agnes Murgoci Kelly published in English are to this day a classic reference on the subject of traditions relating to vampires. Agnes Murgoci papers are deposited by her family at the Royal Holloway College, London. These contain off prints and manuscripts on Romanian Folklore and Customs, papers on Mineralogy (her husband’s field) and correspondence.. Bibliography: Murgoci, Agnes Kelly "The Vampire in Roumania", ”FOLK-LORE”, vol. xxvii, no. 5, p. 320-349,1926). |
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