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Night and blackness,silence and creepy vibes - in such conditions govern these terrible demons.Ruthless bloodsuckers.Sharp canines and hungry for blood.Vampires...The dark is their empire!

Perhaps this is so in Hollywood movies,but not in Serbia! So forget the handsome vampires who sparkle in the sun - welcome to Serbia, the homeland of the word vampire and home to the monsters that dring human blood.

If you're not scared and you want to embark on a search for the undead,it's best to do so in the morning about 10 AM,when the day is still being born.According to a popular belief there is a legendary city of vampires located in Vojvodina,Serbia - Selena.

Legend says that in a seemingly quiet Vojvodina,northwest of Belgrade,there is a creepy castle ruled by vampires.An audacious traveler who wants to disturb the peace of vampires will find Selena easily.Start from Zemun and follow the old Austro-Hungarian military road along the Danube which leads to Petrovaradin.After passing about three quarters of the road,the landscape will change abruptly.Nerium,ferns and even wheat will begin to fade.Soil...initially green and soft will become dull and dark,as if it had rained ashes.

When the traveler feels nausea,dizziness and weight on his chest,he will hear the distant bell ticking 23 times,Selena will be near.At it's center the passer may see a larger circular castle on whose facade mixes different styles - the ancient Assyrian motifs,Chinese fantasies and intricate Indian patterns - which together resemble the Babylonian tower,built of pale porphyry known as the "green water".

At high pillars that surround this building there are variety of statues including 24 statues of women who show a mysterious emotion of fear towards the unknown enemy.These pillars spread further in the street which divides the city into districts,filled with countless castles and mausoleums, with names of vampire clans inscribed on them.At the end of each street there are six high pillars on which there is a statue of a great animal...Snake,bat,vulture hawk or leeches.

If the unwary traveler wakes up one of the vampires,comfortably placed in his mausoleum,the bell will ring and all the doors will open and men and women with pale yellowish eyes and dark lips will run out.Then the traveler must run back to Zemun as fast as possible avoid vampires and now alive statues.Good map on this occasion would be of valuable assistance.

This is just one of the Serbian stories about vampires.You may heard of the undead Sava Savanovic who chased people around Bajina Basta and sucked their blood. 