Leptirica is set in a small rural village in Serbia, in which the people rely on an old fashioned mill to grind flour for bread. The millers are turning up dead, and the community is faced with starvation. Thankfully, a new miller is found when a young bachelor with nothing to lose agrees to do the job.
The monster in this story is a werewolf/vampire creature who attacks the mill at night. The young bachelor survives his encounter with the monster by chance and I think he was able to identify who the creature used to be before becoming the werewolf. So the men of the village find the grave of the person they believe to be the creature and plunge a stake through its heart, which should end the curse. Except in this legend, when the stake is driven in, a moth is released. This part wasn't really explained, but it seemed important for them to catch the moth. It gets away, and because the men anger a fellow villager by stealing his daughter away to be married, he uses the moth to get revenge. Again, I am not sure of the details of what we are supposed to assume how the moth was used or what it represented, but it lead to an amazing climax.
SPOILER: the young bachelor and the daughter run away and plan to marry. The other men celebrate and drink until they pass out. While everyone sleeps, the man sneaks into his fiancé's room (which was guarded by another woman to prevent anything from happening until the wedding). Just as it looks like they are going to get intimate, the girl turns into another one of the creatures. It looked like she killed her fiancé, or maybe they killed each other. It was very memorable scene either way. As I say, I am still not sure exactly how everything happened, as I am not familiar with the legend, but it was very well done and I enjoyed it all the way through.
The monster in this story is a werewolf/vampire creature who attacks the mill at night. The young bachelor survives his encounter with the monster by chance and I think he was able to identify who the creature used to be before becoming the werewolf. So the men of the village find the grave of the person they believe to be the creature and plunge a stake through its heart, which should end the curse. Except in this legend, when the stake is driven in, a moth is released. This part wasn't really explained, but it seemed important for them to catch the moth. It gets away, and because the men anger a fellow villager by stealing his daughter away to be married, he uses the moth to get revenge. Again, I am not sure of the details of what we are supposed to assume how the moth was used or what it represented, but it lead to an amazing climax.
SPOILER: the young bachelor and the daughter run away and plan to marry. The other men celebrate and drink until they pass out. While everyone sleeps, the man sneaks into his fiancé's room (which was guarded by another woman to prevent anything from happening until the wedding). Just as it looks like they are going to get intimate, the girl turns into another one of the creatures. It looked like she killed her fiancé, or maybe they killed each other. It was very memorable scene either way. As I say, I am still not sure exactly how everything happened, as I am not familiar with the legend, but it was very well done and I enjoyed it all the way through.