An incredible, fictional conversation between writer Tomasz Wiśniewski and a young man who has achieved immortality. Apparently, he’s much older than biology and morality would normally allow.
Tomasz Wiśniewski: Could you briefly tell our readers how your road to immortality began?
Well, it all started—as
Why upiory don’t drink blood, though they do enjoy a nibble, a drink, or siring the occasional child. Stasia Budzisz talks to mediaevalist Łukasz Kozak.
Stasia Budzisz: Your book, Upiór. Historia Naturalna [The Upiór: A Natural History], is an iconoclastic work – you claim there’s no such thing as Slavic mythology, and that the creature known as the upiór doesn’t belong to demonology but to folk anthropology. That’s rather an individual approach, isn’t it?
