"Bogey"

Characters of Albanian folk beliefs. The soul of the dead, man or woman, who was a bad man, with wickedness and wicked heart, rose up the valleys. Perhaps this also means that part of the truce of Mujit, ending with the verse: "Zirma, the earth, outside the night of the worm!" Lugati is a corpse, and has very long nails. In Kosovo they believed that the Lugs were raised by a dead man who was not near the rifle, masha, dragonfly or any other iron, because apparently the iron keeps away all the souls, good or bad they are.
Convincingly to Kosovo, in northern Albania, a shovel or hoe always came to the sepulcher until the body eventually collapsed, 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, in Kosovo they went and kept 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 robes, the second with red and the third with yellow. In Korca, the dead did not leave the night alone, for they feared that if a cat crossed, he would rise like the Lugat. Lugati resumed after seven days, went to his house at night and ate a little flour. If she were a woman, she took food, plucked what she found and put her in her tomb.

On Friday he did not go out, but the next three or four nights went and tumbled into the house where he had died. When the living became aware of it, they realized that it would have been "she". In Poliçan it was believed that the Lugars appeared only among the Muslims, while in Kurvelesh alone among the Christians. Lugati can take different shapes: the calico (shakulli), sitting in the kitchen, on the bed or on the shelter where the host is sleeping, of a large swallow, of a dog, standing at the bottom of his or her bed, , as it has been alive but shrouded. In such cases, it moves by dragging it, by its will, or because it dries away the devil. In the bushing that runs along the path leaves scattered shots.
It itself cries out with a terrible sound. Lugati appeared in her own home to the woman and the servants of her life. The most liked images are those of kittens and cones. Lugat's work is numerous, but he loves widows in the pantry and mixes butter, rice, sugar, and flour in the spell, stroking women in the face, bothering the cattle, overturning the bottles and vats. In real form, the man, just as he was before dying, confesses only to his wife, to whom he is going to bed. This way a Vampire can be born. The arrival of the Lugata at home can be understood by the dog's barking, which catches quail. At this time a man comes out of the house and asks: Who are you? Lugati says his name and begs to make halal the right, or the blame he has made alive.
As long as the man of the house tells him that he makes halal, Lugati comes at all times in the night and worries people by complaining. Show that once she was in love with a girl she went to night and dressed in good clothes and chains. When his parents heard him, they took the girl to another village, but Lugati followed him. Then they called a hoxha, who sang him, exhaling Lugat to another place. In another village, Lugati came to the house in this village, opened the doors and damaged.
Then the master of the house summoned the priest, who made them stick a coin, wrapped him in a white cloth and hanged him to the doorstep. The porosity to hang a stick on it, and to grip all kinds of white, red, yellow, black and white papers on all doors. Lugati came to the night, took the kalucin, put the cloth back and forth. Since then it did not look anymore. Then they took the papers and one threw him at the intersection, one in a deserted mill, another to be eaten by the beasts, and another into the vineyard.

In the north of Albania, Lugat was the subject of moonlighting: The valleys eat the moon and therefore the mountaineers shoot with a rifle in the direction of it when it crushes. To eradicate Lugat, it is customary to get the corpse out of the tomb and burn it. Among the Albanians of Struga, where Lugati can take the form of an appendage, another way of killing is used: it burns with valves. According to them, Lugat can only look at dogs that have four eyes, two where they have all dogs, and two imperceptible in the eyebrows.
In southern Albania, they went on Friday to find the grave, put a scarlet pile, half an okey paraffin under them, and then burned it. But this action only took place when it posed a great calamity. In Korca these actions were done on Saturday, when Lugati was believed to sleep. They went and opened the grave of the one who had not reached the forty, and the pot was found standing and burning, making sure that they did not leave a sign or a mole, that they believed it was alive again. These ways of fighting Lugat have their own values ​​even among the Illyrians. So perhaps to protect themselves from the evil spirits of the dead, the corpses of some of the dead did not put them in the grave in a normal position, but placed them inverted, with their heads separated from the body or half-body. Lugat unite with the spirit of air. It is called Luvgat, Lugjat, Kullunxh, Gjikul (Greek arbëreshes), Shikul (Greek arbëreshes), Labic, Vapir (Cabej), Babe (Santa Sofia) (Bombotteto), Bobok, Bobua, Bun, Bjukull, Hje, Korrobac, Kukubin, Papacom, Soft, Spam, Shiloh, Shkruba, Umbra, Facom, Kuk, Kukuban, Garramac, Hard-bound (euf., Kuteli). It also comes to the place name: Ara of Lugat (Kosovo), Sylugati (Elbasan village, mentioned in the XV century).