Sources & method

Sources (S1–S9) and verification notes

1. S1 · Cantemir (in the 1771 German translation). Demetrii Kantemirs historisch-geographisch- und politische Beschreibung der Moldau, 1771. The BSB scan OCR read in full; pp.317–318 checked against the scan (Striga note, ordeal, Tricolitsch). Quotations are the German original; translations are the site's own; no claim on the Latin wording.
   archive.org: 11428968bsb
2. S2 · Gerard's 1885 essay. Emily Gerard, “Transylvanian Superstitions”, The Nineteenth Century, July 1885, pp.128–144. The full Gutenberg 52165 text (60KB) read; journal pp.140/142 via the Google Books full-view scan index (vol. hUJDAQAAMAAJ), passages verified verbatim.
   gutenberg.org: 52165
3. S3 · Gerard 1888, The Land Beyond the Forest, vol. I. The full Gutenberg 57168 text read; I:319–321 checked against the scan (IA landbeyondforest01gera). Full-text comparison with the 1885 essay confirms the 1888 additions: nail, pig fat, wild rose, midwife, prikolitsch dialogue.
   archive.org: landbeyondforest01gera · gutenberg.org: 57168
4. S4 · Stratilesco 1906, From Carpathian to Pindus. Tereza Stratilesco, London: T. F. Unwin, 1906 (author and publisher after archive.org metadata). Full OCR read (825KB); pp.172–173, 188–189, 250 checked against the scan.
   archive.org: fromcarpathianto00stra
5. S5 · Murgoci's 1919 article. Agnes Murgoci, “Customs Connected with Death and Burial among the Roumanians”, Folk-Lore 30 (1919), pp.89–102. The Wikisource transcription (after the paginated Folklore1919.djvu scan) read; pp.99–100 checked against the scan. Murgoci's “S.” is Stratilesco, verified in-text (“T. Stratilesco's book, From Carpathian to Pindus, to which I shall refer as ‘S.’”), not Marian — the old error stays on record in the brief's revision history and never returns.
   en.wikisource: Folk-Lore vol.30
6. S6 · Stoker, Dracula (boundary contrast, not evidence). The full Gutenberg 345 text read: “nosferatu” twice (chs. XVI, XVIII, both Van Helsing), “strigoi” zero times. The novel enters neither the corpus nor the documentation history.
   gutenberg.org: 345
7. S7 · Ji Yun, Yuewei Caotang Biji (c.1789–1798). The zh.wikisource transcription, juan 7 and 10, read: juan 7 (drought-demon = jiangshi, dig-and-burn; Hu Gongshan's testimony), juan 10 (the two kinds of jiangshi via Dong Qujiang; Ji Yun's reservations). The source writes 僵屍.
   zh.wikisource: 閱微草堂筆記
8. S8 · The UH course text. UH Libraries Pressbooks, CHIN 3343, “Hopping Vampire – 僵尸 (jiāngshī)”: stiff corpse, hopping, Qing dress, the rigor explanation. The pinyin (jiāngshī/qízhuāng/qīngdài guānmào) comes from this page.
   uhlibraries.pressbooks.pub
9. S9 · Tertiary notes (labeled, not evidence). Wikipedia “Nosferatu (word)”, Stoker-and-Gerard section (after Wolf 1975/1997): Stoker acknowledged Gerard as his source for the term, and scholars commonly hold the 1885 essay introduced it into print — the atlas records the position without asserting the chain. Wikipedia “Jiangshi” (after Lam 2009) and the PBS Monstrum S6E9 blurb: corroboration of the modern costume only.

Removed nodes (record without text, zero assertions)

• Murgoci 1926, “The Vampire in Roumania”, Folk-Lore 37(4):320–349, doi:10.1080/0015587X.1926.9718370 (verified via Crossref; the Summers 1928 bibliography confirms the pages; reprinted in Dundes 1998, pp.12–34). Attempted: archive.org (no vol. 37), JSTOR (blocks automated access), T&F (paywalled). The node goes up when a readable text appears.
• Perkowski 1982, “The Romanian Folkloric Vampire”, East European Quarterly 16(3):311–322 (reprinted in Dundes 1998, pp.35–46, verified via Crossref). No open text; further reading, no assertions taken.

Never cited

Dated/localized specifics from clips and popularizers without sources (e.g. “1892 registers” claims); Zanne (vol. 3 checked: zero strigoi — not a strigoi corpus); invented transliterations; present-tense belief claims; how-to writing; “S. = Marian” (disproved).