“My children”, Gorcha intimate before take his leave of absence, “wait for my tax return for six years. After these six years, if I don’ t tax return, declaim a supplication in my memory, as it will intend that I die in battle… But if I should re-emerge - may God protect you! – after the six years, I enjoin you to bar the door and deny me entry, whatever I say or do. For by so, I will be none other than a Vourdalak, a blasted one.”