Notes From Zemii

October 8, 2023

Oct 08, 2023

We have expanded our narrative range in the last month and wanted to start sending out a once a week listicle of articles available for you to read. This is the first of these emails. We also want to apologize for the email sent last Monday on “Must-Eat Istanbul.” It’s not that we don’t want you to read it, we just emailed it out on accident. The topics you can expect from this newsletter moving forward include: publishing, nonprofit, travel, culture, art, food, social, and health. These will have an international focus.

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Culture

Immurement in the Balkans

Immurement is otherwise known as live entombment. It is exactly as it sounds. In these tales, women are sacrificed for various reasons and entombed alive in construction that can be found throughout this region. Countries focused on in this article include: North Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. All have similar tales, so we are including them together for comparison.

Health

Secondary Trauma

Secondary trauma is the result of being exposed to the trauma of others. This takes place through conversations, through the media, and when working with those who are experiencing trauma. Frequently referred to by clinicians as secondary trauma stress, it has recently become recognized as a form of posttraumatic stress disorder in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). (Link for the Spanish version found here).