In Bosnia vampires are called
lampir, lapir, lampijer, vukodlak or vukozlačina. It was believed that if a cat
crosses over a deceased man that he will become a lampir. Of course the effect
would be cancelled out if the cat returns the same way it came. Because people
were afraid that this would happen they would place a knife on dead man's chest
or they would spike a knife next to his head. There was also a custom where
people would place a bowl of wheat or only three grains of wheat where the dead
person was lying before he was buried, after the burial the wheat was given to a
pauper. There were a lot of lampiers but the most famous ones were Meho from
Glamoč, Pajo Tomić and a certain Korkut from Nevesinje.
Bosnian witches were able to call forth the deadly power of the vukodlak by going to a graveyard and repeating the formula: Adali Ada to protect me" and then they would sit next to a grave keeping their eyes closed, and they would grab a handful of dirt and they would take it home. They would hold on to that dirt until one of their enemies would die and they would plant the dirt under the threshold of his house while the deceased is carried out of it. They did this because they wanted someone else dead from that household.
Bosnian witches were able to call forth the deadly power of the vukodlak by going to a graveyard and repeating the formula: Adali Ada to protect me" and then they would sit next to a grave keeping their eyes closed, and they would grab a handful of dirt and they would take it home. They would hold on to that dirt until one of their enemies would die and they would plant the dirt under the threshold of his house while the deceased is carried out of it. They did this because they wanted someone else dead from that household.
