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What does Lugati symbolize in Albanian mythology

2022-08-19 18:46:05Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
What does Lugati symbolize in Albanian mythology
What does Lugati symbolize in Albanian mythology

Figure of Albanian folk beliefs. The soul of the dead, whether man or woman, who was a bad person, with an evil character and heart, Lugat rises. Perhaps this is also what the part of Muji's creed means, which ends with the verse: "Zirma, earth, outside in the night of the dead!" Lugati is therefore a corpse, and has very long nails. In Kosovo, they believed that Lugat would rise even the dead who had not been put near a rifle butt, machete, sickle or any other iron, because, apparently, iron keeps away all spirits, good or bad.

Similar to Kosovo, in Northern Albania, a shovel or hoe was always brought to the grave, until the body finally rotted, so that the devil would not come around and take the dead. Because, according to popular beliefs, the devil enters the body of the dead and comes out of the grave. To prevent this, they went to Kosovo and guarded the grave of the dead for three consecutive nights, because it was thought that during these three nights the devil would come, the first night dressed in white clothes, the second in red and third with yellow. In Korça, the dead were not left alone at night, because they were afraid that if a cat ran over him, he would rise up like Lugat. Lugat revived after seven days, went to his house at night and ate some flour. If she was a woman, she would take food, pick up whatever she could find and put it in her grave.

He didn't go out on Friday, but for the next three or four nights he went and disturbed the house where you had died. When the living became aware of her, they understood that it would have been "she". In Poliçan it was believed that the Lugetërs appeared only among Muslims, while in Kurvelesh only among Christians. Lugati can take different forms: the shape of the caliku (shakulli), which sits in the kitchen, on the bed or on the mattress where the women sleep, of a large tit, of a dog, which sits at the end of the wife's bed, of a human , just as he was alive, but wrapped in a shroud. In these cases, he moves by dragging himself, of his own volition, or because the slang is taken away by the devils. In the brambles that I come across on the road, I leave pieces of the shroud everywhere.

The very snarl with a terrible voice. Lugat appears at home to his wife and living servants. Among the parables that he likes to take the most are those of kittens and cones. Lugat's jobs are many, but he rather likes to be in the pantry and mix butter, rice, sugar and flour in magic, to tear women in the face, to annoy the cattle, to overturn the soft pots. In real form, the man, as he was before he died, confesses only to his wife, with whom he enters the bed. In this way a Vampire can be born. The arrival of Lugat in the house can be understood by the barking of the dogs, which occupy the kitchen. At this time, a man from the house comes out and asks: Who are you? Lugati says his name and begs him to make his right, or the sins he has committed in his life, halal.

Until the man of the house tells him that it is halal, Lugati always comes at night and disturbs people by complaining. They say that once he fell in love with a girl, whom he visited at night and adorned her with fine clothes and necklaces. When the parents found out, they took the girl to another village, but Lugati followed her there as well. Then they called a hoxha, who sang it, banishing Lugat to another place. In another village, Lugati stayed at night in a house of this village, opened the doors and caused damage.

Then the owners of the house called the priest, who told them to make a cake, wrap it in a white cloth and hang it on the doorstep. I ordered them to hang a cane there, and to fasten all kinds of white, red, yellow, black, etc. papers to all the doors. At night, Lugati came, took the kaluchi, took the cloth and a letter and left. Since then it was not seen again. Then they took the letters and threw one at the crossroads, one in a deserted mill, another for the wild animals to eat, and another in the vineyard.

In the north of Albania, the Lugat people take possession of the moon. To eradicate Lugat, it is customary to exhume the corpse and burn it. Among the Albanians of Struga, where Lugati can also take the form of a fetus, another method of killing is used: he is scalded with boiling water. According to them, Lugat can only be spotted by dogs that have four eyes, two where all dogs have them, and two inconspicuous ones in the eyebrows.

In the south of Albania, they would go on Friday to discover his grave, put a sackcloth over him, half a barrel of paraffin under them, and then burn him. But this action was taken only when some great misfortune befell him. In Korça, they did these actions on Saturday, when it was believed that Lugati sleeps. They went and opened the grave of the one who had not reached the age of forty, and if they found him standing, they burned him, taking care not to leave any mark or mole on him, because they believed that he would come back to life. These ways of fighting Lugat have their counterparts also among the Illyrians. Thus, perhaps to protect themselves from the evil spirits of the dead, the corpses of some dead were not put in the grave in a normal position, but were placed upside down, with the head separated from the body or with half the body.

They unite the spoon with the spirit of the air. It is also called Luvgat, Lugjat, Kullunxh (Mbiudh and Maqellara-Dibër), Zhikul (Arbëresh of Greece), Shikul (Arbëresh of Greece), Labic, Vapir (Cabej), Baba (Santa Sofia d'Epiro, Kozence), Arman (B. Bilota), Arman'je (P. Camodeca: Dizionario), Avi/s-zi (Frascineto), Bobok, Bobua, Bun, Bjukull, Hje, Korrobac, Kukubin, Papacom, Pehme, Spamëndall, Stihji, Shkërba, Umbër, Facom, Kuk, Kukuban, Garramac, Duarlidhur (euf., Kuteli). It also appears in the toponym: Ara e Lugatit (Kosovo), Sylugati (village in Elbasan, mentioned in the XV century).


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