The village of Pare is a "village of vampires".

The village got its name due to the fact that once upon a time several young married couples settled across the river. That's when they started calling the place pare, and then the name stuck to the village. 

There are a lot of Polesye exotics here: charming roofs, old churches, floodplain meadows and marshes covered with alder forest, an incredible mix of Christian and pagan traditions. The village is very beautiful. The Prostyr River divides Pare into two parts. The first thing that catches your eye is the number of crosses on rural streets. They stand at every intersection and are all tied up with bright ribbons. The locals see nothing surprising in this: crosses were decorated by their ancestors, now they decorate. 

The village has repeatedly attracted the attention of historians, ufologists and adventurers. And all because at the local cemetery you can see traces of an unusual tradition - graves laid with parts of massive oaks. According to one version, in this way the locals protected themselves from representatives of evil spirits, which sometimes left their habitats and moved to the village.

A narrow road leads to the creaking gates of the wooden cemetery. Nearby stands a dilapidated shack with a thatched roof. The cemetery is small. In the very center of it are ancient wooden crosses, large and small. Almost all the old graves are filled with already rotted decks. But there are no trees in the cemetery at all. Wooden crosses are inserted into some decks, and in one of them the cross "grows" directly from the trunk. Most of the fresh burials are ordinary granite monuments. However, several fresh graves are filled with pieces of silicate blocks. Pagan traditions unconsciously live on even now. These oak decks are called log cabins.

Historians believe that these unique traditions have been preserved only in some villages of Polesye. The hypothesis about this tradition is that narub supposedly separates the world of the living from the world of the dead. Belarusians believed that not very good people could get up from the grave, come at night to scare people and mess with them. Moreover, this could be done not only by a sorcerer, but also by any person who, before his death, thought and did something bad. The tradition of crosses at intersections also goes back to paganism. According to the ancient Slavs, the crossroads is a sacred place where evil spirits gather. Interestingly, the crosses from the cemetery and crossroads are made of oak. Among the Slavs, an oak is a Perun tree.

The people in the village are kind and very friendly. They have their own way of life that has developed over the centuries: they sow, harvest, harvest hay, keep livestock, and, of course, fish. There's water all around and plenty of fish. The village would not exist without her. Without bread, this is the best bread. 

Now Pare has water supply, gas, and a well-maintained road. But at

The villagers have a dream - the construction of a new bridge, which has been in a dilapidated state for 20 years. They need a bridge because it connects the two parts of the village. They do not support stories about evil spirits and ghouls and consider them to be inventions of ubiquitous journalists. The villagers are very offended by the fact that their Couple is nicknamed the "vampire village."

There is such an interesting, original Polesye village called Pare in Belarus!