Packet 6: Bonus 18

This term entered English from accounts of an 18th-century panic in Serbia, during which dead peasant Petar Blagojević returned for his shoes. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name the creatures examined in John Blair’s 2025 book Killing the Dead, which details an attempt to stab the corpse of Slobodan Milošević with a hawthorn stake.
ANSWER: vampires [accept strigoi or moroi or nosferatu; prompt on the undead, living dead, revenants, or similar]
[10m] John Blair previously studied the church among these people, who likely worshipped the goddesses Rheda and Eostre (“AY-oh-streh”). In a chronicle named for these people, they are led by Hengist and Horsa.
ANSWER: Anglo-Saxons [accept Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; prompt on Angles or Saxons or Jutes or English people]
[10h] Blair writes that before 1200 CE, Anglo-Saxons often did this action to bodies believed to be vampires. Some archaeologists believe that “threefold death” rituals were followed by this action to represent “enduring punishment” of the corpse.
ANSWER: putting the corpse in a bog [accept equivalents like throwing the body in a marsh or swamp or lake; prompt on drowning by asking “what action symbolically represents drowning the corpse?”]
<Texas, Mythology> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago ASwarthmore100010E
Columbia ARutgers100010E
Georgia Tech AHarvard0000
Illinois AJohns Hopkins1010020EM
Illinois BBruin0000
IndianaCornell1010020EM
MITNYU B100010E
PurdueGeorgia Tech B100010E
UC Berkeley ACambridge1010020EM
UC Berkeley BNYU A1010020EM
Virginia TechToronto A1010020EM
WashUGeorgetown1010020EM
WaterlooColumbia B1010020EM

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