Onychomancy is a form of conjecture that uses a person's
nails to interpret his / her personality and also to provide an opinion on what
will happen to him / her in the future. The term derives from ancient Greek,
where onychos means nails and the mantle refers to bias. According to the most
common practice of oniconomy, the viewer will examine a person's nails for
color, shape, sign, and any other unusual trait, and then interpret each of
these aspects as a trace in his personality. It was also thought that signs on
the nails can spark future events. Fingers where the symbols seemed seemed to
indicate the nature of future events, while the location of symbols on the nail
allows them to give them. The higher the symbol is located on the nail, it is
believed that the events as soon as possible occur.
Peter Plogojowitz (Serbian form: Petar Blagojević/Петар Благојевић) was a Serbian peasant believed to have become a vampire after his death and to have killed nine of his fellow villagers.
Peter Plogojowitz (Serbian form: Petar Blagojević/Петар Благојевић) was a Serbian peasant believed to have become a vampire after his death and to have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was described in the report of Imperial Provisor Frombald, an official of the Austrian administration, who witnessed the exorcism via impalation by stake of Plogojowitz. Peter Plogojowitz lived in a village named Kisilova (Kisiljevo) in the part of Serbia that temporarily passed from Ottoman into Austrian hands after the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718) and was ceded back to the Ottomans with the Treaty of Belgrade (1739). Plogojowitz died in 1725. His death was followed by a spate of other sudden deaths (after very short maladies of about twenty-four hours each). Within eight days, nine persons perished. On their death-beds the victims allegedly claimed to have been throttled by Plogojowitz at night. Plogojowitz's wife stated that he had visited her and asked her for his opanci (...
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