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.

She allegedly has long, disheveled hair, crooked fingers that end with sharp nails, fire-spitting mouth and hands made of iron. Samca is a female, grotesque, horror and demonic spirit that ruins underage children and pregnant women’s health. The victim either falls in bed for a long time or finds an end until dawn. Encounters with the Moroi in the middle of the night are usually fatal. If it receives food, the dog-mule does not cause damage and does not scare those who cut it off. It is said that it can leave its native land by metamorphosing into a dog. It is a nocturnal creature that manifests itself especially on New Year’s Eve. It makes the owner’s animals and children sick, who eventually have to leave the land to avoid a tragedy. The Moroi haunts the owners of the land where he was buried. If this ritual is not performed, the soul does not find peace and turns into an evil spirit, known as a Moroi. The ritual is completed by a piece of cloth that is thrown on the grave of the unbaptized baby. 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!”. 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!”. Unlike Strigoi’s, where the transformation came almost immediately after death, the Moroi’s waited seven years to rise from the pit.

According to folk tales, an unbaptized dead child is sure to turn into a Moroi. The Moroi is the dead who have to return from the pit to bring trouble to family and friends. In most parts of the country, Strigoi’s and Moroi’s are considered separate entities, but in Oltenia they are confused.

As popular as the Strigoi is the Moroi, an evil entity that comes from the spirit of an unbaptized dead child.

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