#pricolici

[imthepunchlord]

Just found out about a creature that might serve as a very funny way to blend Vampire and Werewolf

The Pricolici.

The Pricolici is a vampire with werewolf-like attributes from Romanian folklore. They are often described as the undead souls of malicious or violent people who rise from the grave in a spectral, wolf-like form to terrify and harm the living.

Oooh.

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I like that. I want more of that in my monster horror media.

[arraunean]

Pricolici, similar to strigoi, are undead souls that have risen from the grave to harm living people. While a strigoi possesses anthropomorphic qualities similar to the ones it had before death, a pricolici always resembles a wolf. 

Working on some monster concept art for my webcomic, focusing on medieval Wallachia and the local folklore ! Here's the Pricolici, a creature the main character might encounter once in a while...And it's no good news.

[lycarael]

[multlingvulo]

Luisõ & Pricolici

PORTUGUÊS: Neste desenho, eu juntei dois monstros-lobos. O primeiro, é o Luisõ, da mitologia guarani. Ele é um lobo preto com olhos brilhantes com um cheiro ruim muito forte. Ele aparece na meia-noite de terça e sexta-feira e vai pro cemitério. Lá ele tenta tirar os corpos do túmulo pra comer. Aqui, o Luisõ encontrou o Procolici. Ele é um monstro da mitologia romena. Quando uma pessoa passa a vida só fazendo mal às pessoas, e morre sem amigos, odiada por todos, a alma dessa pessoa não vai pro inferno. Ela volta à vida e se transforma em animal, normalmente um lobo. Esse lobo sai da cova e anda na floresta, atacando as pessoas que andam sozinhas de noite.

↓ GUARANI, ROMÂNĂ, CASTELLANO, ENGLISH

GUARANI: Ko ta’angápe amoĩ ñondive mokõi jaguaru mba’eñarõ. Peteĩha ha’e Luisõ, guarani mombe’ugua’úgui. Ha’éniko peteĩ jaguaru hũ ha hesa omimbíva, ha hyakuãvaiguasu. Osẽ pyharepytépe araapy ha arapoteĩ aja, ha oho tyvytýpe ha ohekýi te’õnguekuéra tyvýgui ho’u hag̃ua. Ápe, Luisõ ohuvaitĩ Pricolici-pe. Ha’éko mba’eñarõ jeroviahágui Rumaniagua. Peteĩ tapicha oguerekovai ambuépe hekove pukúi ha omano angirũ'ỹ vove, hi’ánga nog̃uahẽmo’ãi añaretãme. Ha’éko ojey tekovépe ha oñemoambue mymbápe, ha ojechauka py’ýi jaguarúpe. Upe jaguaru osẽ tyvýgui ha oguata ka’aguýre, ohepeñávo tapichápe oguatáva iñañónte pyharépe.

ROMÂNĂ: În acest desen, am pus împreună doi monștri-lupi. Întâiul e Luisõ, din mitologia guarani. E un lup negru cu ochi strălucitoare și cu un miros rău puternic. El apare la miezul nopții de marți și vineri, și se duce la cimitir. Acolo, încearcă să ia corpurile din morminte ca să-i mănânce. Aici, Luisõ a întâlnit Pricoliciul. El e un monstru din mitologia românească. Atunci când cineva petrece viața întreagă necăjind oamenii, și moare fără prieteni, urât de toții, sufletul acestui om nu ajunge în iad. Ci revine în viața și se transformă într-un animal, de obicei un lup. Acest lup iese din mormânt și se plimbă în pădure, atacând oamenii care merg singuri noaptea.

CASTELLANO: En este dibujo, puse juntos dos mosntruos-lobos. El primer es Luisõ, de la mitología guaraní. Es un lobo negro con ojos brillantes y un mal-olor fuerte. El aparece por la medianoche de martes y viernes, y va al cementerio. Allí, trata de sacar los cuerpos de las tumbas para comérselos. Aquí, Luisõ encontró a Pricolici. Él es un monstruo de la mitología rumana. Cuánto alguien vive una vida entera maltratando a la gente y muere sin amigos, odiado por todos, el alma de esa persona no llega al infierno. Sino regresa a la vida y se transforma en un animal, a menudo un lobo. Ese lobo sale de la tumba y camina por el bosque, atacando a la gente que anda sóla por la noche.

ENGLISH: In this drawing, I put together two wolf-monsters. The first one is Luisõ, from Guarani mythology. It's a black wolf with shining eyes and strong stink. It comes out at midnight on Tuesday and Friday, and goes to the cemetery to take the bodies off the graves to eat them. Here, Luisõ met Pricolici. It's a monster from Romanian mythology. When someone mistreats people their whole lives and dies without friends, hated by everyone, their soul doesn't get to hell. They come back to life as an animal, usually transformed into a wolf. That wolf goes to the forest and attacks people who walk alone in the night.

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[onp4012]

Romanian monsters and myths

I’ve seen that some of you want to hear more about those monsters and myths, so I am ready to spoil them.

Moroi

As popular as the Strigoi is the Moroi, an evil entity that comes from the spirit of an unbaptized dead child. In most parts of the country, Strigoi’s and Moroi’s are considered separate entities, but in Oltenia they are confused. The Moroi is the dead who have to return from the pit to bring trouble to family and friends. According to folk tales, an unbaptized dead child is sure to turn into a Moroi. Unlike Strigoi’s, where the transformation came almost immediately after death, the Moroi’s waited seven years to rise from the pit. When seven years have passed since his death(because number 7 is considered a magic number), the soul asks to be received in the kingdom of heaven and cries out "Baptism, Baptism!" or according to other sources "Cross, cross!". If anyone hears him then he can save him by giving him baptism: "The son or daughter of God, John or Mary, is baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen!". The ritual is completed by a piece of cloth that is thrown on the grave of the unbaptized baby. If this ritual is not performed, the soul does not find peace and turns into an evil spirit, known as a Moroi. The Moroi haunts the owners of the land where he was buried. It makes the owner's animals and children sick, who eventually have to leave the land to avoid a tragedy. It is a nocturnal creature that manifests itself especially on New Year's Eve. It is said that it can leave its native land by metamorphosing into a dog. If it receives food, the dog-mule does not cause damage and does not scare those who cut it off. Encounters with the Moroi in the middle of the night are usually fatal. The victim either falls in bed for a long time or finds an end until dawn.

Pricolici

Is a werewolf/vampire fusion in the Romanian folklore. Pricolici, similar to Strigoi, are undead souls that have risen from the grave to harm living people. While a Strigoi possesses anthropomorphic qualities similar to the ones it had before death, a pricolici always resembles a wolf. Malicious, violent men are often said to become Pricolici after death, in order to continue harming other humans. Even as recently as modern times, many people living in rural areas of Romania have claimed to have been viciously attacked by abnormally large and fierce wolves. Apparently, these wolves attack silently, unexpectedly and only solitary targets. Victims of such attacks often claim that their aggressor wasn't an ordinary wolf, but a Pricolici who has come back to life to continue wreaking havoc.

Samca

Samca is a female, grotesque, horror and demonic spirit that ruins underage children and pregnant women’s health. She allegedly has long, disheveled hair, crooked fingers that end with sharp nails, fire-spitting mouth and hands made of iron. Legend has it, she’ll turn up at the end of each month in front of a young child or a pregnant woman and either kill the poor soul or leave him/ her crippled for life. According to the myth, the spirit has not one, but nine different names. Samca enjoys torturing women in labor, sometimes killing them. She also either kills their their children, or blesses them with a disease bearing her name. A children suffering from Samca will have seizures, cry all the time, sigh a lot and eventually die. If one writes all of her names inside his house, Samca will not be allowed to enter. She is thought to be the wing of Satan, and she is said to have tried to kill baby Jesus, but was stopped by Michael ( the archangel, not Jackson). She can also change appearance, in order to deceive mortals.

Pâca (Pafa)

Pâca, also known as Pafa, is, according to Romanian mythology, the spirit of tobacco and smoking. Romanians have imagined her as a woman as old at the world itself, ugly and black, having horns on her head and a big, long nose, swollen eyes, tusks and talons, a tail and a pipe in her mouth. Flames and black smoke come out of her throat and she reeks of tobacco. When Pâca came out from the depths of Hell, death spreading smoke came out with her. Then her sons, the demons (dracii), gave birth to a seed which they sowed. The plant sprung from that seed is called buruiana dracului ( the Devil’s weed) or tămâia dracului (the Devil’s incense). As you may have guessed, this plant is what we call tobacco. Then some other demons invented the pipe, for people to worship Pafa by inhaling the smoke made by the plant the devils had sowed in her name. Pâca‘s children also invented snuff tobacco. The funny part is that God, upon seeing what the people were doing, took their tobacco leaves and instead of destroying them (since he’s almighty according to christians, right?), mixed them with basil (so they could smell nicer?) and gave them back to people, teaching them how to use the new product. (Good job, God)

Crasnicul

Crasnicul, or Crâsnicul, is the child born out of a woman’s union with a demon. Apparently, he looks like a cross between a piglet and a normal kid. However, as opposed to the latter, the first thing this demon spawn does after birth is not crying, but running around the house screaming. I bet it sounds similar to Dani Filth’s work with Cradle. Somehow, my intuition tells me their similarities go beyond sound, and we could also link the two aesthetically. In some areas, people thought you should trap the thing in a stove and burn it alive. Other believe that the Crasnic is born after an eleven months gestation period. It is also said that the Crasnic has a hellish desire to bite and kill the people around, immediately after birth. After he’s done with them, he (it?) will try to go back to where he came from. To prevent all this, the midwife will wrap him in a cloth and call the mother’s relatives to bludgeon him to death. Imagine how many malformed children have been bludgeoned to death just because people thought they were the result of the mother’s union with the Devil. Sad. But a great Horror image, nonetheless. ;-; (Ain’t very proud).

Muma Pădurii (Mother Forest)

Is an ugly and mischievous or mad old woman living in the forest (in the heart of the virgin forests, in a hut/cabin or an old tree). She is the opposite of fairies such as a "Fairy" Zână. She is also the protector of the animals and plants, brewing potions and helping injured animals. She cures the forest if it's dying, and she keeps the unwanted trespassers away driving them mad and scaring them to flee. She can be associated with witches (like the witch from the story of "Hansel and Gretel"), but she's a neutral "creature", harming only those who harm the forest. (She’s my favorite “horror one”, I really respect her.)

Iele

Ieles, evil fairies in Romanian mythology are the most mysterious and fascinating creatures that Romanian legends have been talking about for hundreds of years. Sources of inspiration for poets and writers, who turned them into literary characters, the ieles are also the subject of folk studies in which the authors tried to explain both the origin and the meaning of the creatures. Supernatural female creatures appearing in groups on the plains or in the woods, singing and dancing in steamy or undressed clothes, leaving behind signs of circles of fire. It’s said that they are the result of an incestuous relationship between the Sun and the Moon, so they were cursed to send their daughters on earth. This is the portrait of the ieleles, described by folklorists and folk tales over time. Legends about iele, which differ from region to region, say that the creatures appear in groups of three, five or seven. The stories depict the evil fairies in Romanian mythology as very beautiful, dressed in steamy clothes or simply naked. In the story they appear at night, in the fields and in the forests, far from the eyes of the world. Legends also say that the iels burn crazy and cheerful choruses that the eyes of ordinary mortals should not see. Behind them are signs of circles of fire in the burning grass. (In my region, it’s said that they are wives of unfaithful husbands that cheated on them, at which, the woman committed suicide in a river or was simply killed by her husband.)

[howtobangyourmonster]

Hi, i would like a Monster Match please! I'm 24, bi woman with no real preference for gender. i really like to play video games, watch cartoons or horror movies in my spare time. I personally really love the super tall and buff type of monsters that could easily hurt a person, but are so sweet and caring that they wouldn't even consider it. Above all i really want something that encourages me to be my best self, very affectionate to their partner, and super cuddly and fluffy to boot. Thank you!

You have been matched with Ylenia, a PRICOLICI. She is quite tall and broad, with a wolfish face and wolf-like traits. Unlike werewolves, she never assumes a human form, so this big buff wolflady is all yours, all the time. Another trait that distinguishes her from werewolves is that she feeds on human blood, though she won't kill you for it. More than capable of annihilating fragile humans, she's actually quite shy and a bit awkward, and she tends to bump into things and knock things over quite a bit. She's like the pup that grew into a huge wolfhound but still thinks she can fit on your lap. Having struggled with her need for human blood, Ylenia knows how hard it can be to overcome your own worst impulses. She supports you in your dreams and endeavors, and is always ready with a hug or encouraging word when you stumble.

[lpbestiary]

The Pricolici is a hybrid of vampire and werewolf in Romanian folklore. Unquiet souls who rise from the grave to attack living people, they will sometimes resemble the person they were in life, but always possess wolf-like characteristics.

Some believe a Pricolici will be born when a particularly hateful or violent man dies. Others say that they rise from werewolves who have died. Belief in Pricolici exists to this day, with some rural Romanian villages reporting wolf attacks that are blamed on the undead creatures.

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[laer-si-atnas]

Should I just give up and just dive into monster pictures? Because that's the direction my art seems to be going.