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Drekavac (Cyrllic: дрекавац, , literally "the screamer"〔Levi, Pavle (2007) ''Disintegration in frames: aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema'' Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, (page 181 ), ISBN 978-0-8047-5368-5〕), also called ''drek'' and ''drekalo'' is a mythical creature in south Slavic mythology. The name is derived from the adjective drečati (meaning bawling). ==Original beliefs== Drekavac comes from the souls of children who have died unbaptised. The creature is not consistently described. One description is that its body is dappled, elongated and thin as a spindle, with disproportionately large head;〔 yet another is that it is some kind of bird; a modern find of supposed drekavac body looked like a dog or a fox, but with hind legs similar to those of kangaroo. It may also appear in the form of a child〔 and call for people passing near the cemetery to baptise it. The one feature everyone agrees about is its horrifying yell. Drekavac could be seen at night, especially during the twelve days of Christmas (called ''unbaptised days'' in Serbo-Croatian) and in early spring, in time where other demons appear most often.〔 In the form of the child it predicts someone's death, but in the form of the animal, it predicts cattle disease.〔 Drekavac rarely bothers its parents, as it is afraid of dogs.〔 Drekavac is often used as a child scare, in a similar way a banshee is in the West. It is probably more useful than banshees in rural areas, as children surely sometimes hear a sound of some animal and attribute it to drekavac, thus convinced it really exists; which would then probably prevent them from wandering far from home. In the cities, however, belief in it has faded, and Baba Roga, which more closely resembles western bogeyman, is much more used. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drekavac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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