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Romanian werewolves warning

Tuesday 30 November 1993 00:02 GMT
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Rural Romanians were yesterday urged to get out the garlic to fend off evil spirits stalking the countryside, AP reports from Bucharest. Evenimentul Ziliei, a large daily read mostly in rural areas, told its readers to smear garlic over their doors and windows by nightfall to ward off werewolves and other malevolent spirits on St Andrew's Day - when superstition has it that ghosts and werewolves roam.

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