Albanian mothers create puppets and decorate their children’s rooms with this food to ward off the evil eye and the witch Shtriga. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this food whose perception as an antibiotic in early Europe led it to be used as a vampire deterrent.
ANSWER: garlic
[10h] People of this ethnicity traditionally ate pickled garlic to deter tigers in the mountains. Myths of these people include eclipse-causing fire dogs and beautiful ghost women who eat men’s livers.
ANSWER: Koreans (The creatures are bulgae and kumiho respectively.)
[10m] Greeks placed garlic on stone pillars at these places as offerings to Hecate. Hodou stories of Papa Legba may have inspired the tale of the musician Robert Johnson selling his soul to the Devil at one of these places.
ANSWER: crossroads [prompt on roads]
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