After WWII in Bosnia rumours
started spreading about scary apparitions which were called Prepasti. Usually
they appeared on roads, meadows or next to rivers and creeks as obscure, black
clouds, silhouette and whirlwinds that would go high into the clouds and
sometimes they would turn into scary dark figures. Those supernatural
apparitions were described by the people as distempered ghosts of dead soldiers
because the places where they usually appeared were battlefields where large
number of soldiers died during the war. Prepasti usually appeared in places
where the soldiers lost one of their body parts, and according to belief they
appeared to search for their lost limbs. Prepasti would disappear forever when
the rain completely washes their blood from the soil and when plough furrows
their bones into the ground.
