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Before my father left, he said...
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""I"ll be back within five days.
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But if I should come back
after five days have passed...
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do not let me in...
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but drive a dagger
through my heart...
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because it will mean I too
have become a wurdulak.""
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Your brother used this word too,
but I don"t know what it means.
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If you had been born
in these parts...
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you would be afraid
even to say the word.
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I"ll tell you what it means.
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The wurdulak
are bloodthirsty corpses.
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They yearn for the blood of those
they loved most when they were alive.
:36:41
Sdenka, you can"t really believe
that old legend.
:36:47
You say that,
but the legend is true.
:36:49
The more they"ve loved someone,
the more they long to kill them...
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to suck their blood.
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Those killed in this way
also become wurdulak...
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until someone manages
to stab them in the heart.
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And when are the five days up?
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Tonight, at the stroke of midnight.