How to pronounce Vandes?

Vahn-dessi

Vaan-dES

First name

Latin

Vandess or Vandees

An instrument played with two feet and blown into like a fiddle OR a word used in a chant to make the spirits of animals rise.

The name Vandes comes from a famous latin chant: porcos animulas a lillage, vandesso! This means: Pigs from the village, rise. You see, there was this small but pretty well-know village that would sacrifice a volunteer every few years. They would chant this specifically, because they believed pigs were more intelligent than others, and if their blood was mixed with the sacrifice's, the pig's spirit would transcend into the sacrifice's body and take over. However, it was seen as a good thing, and most begged to be chosen. After the pig had taken over, the people were said to have been locked up in a fancy tower until death. Then the cycle would continue, until the earthquake of 1923 destroyed them completely.