Case: GG-2026-171
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: A
Location: Kisiljevo, Braničevo District, Serbia
The Petar Blagojević Vampire Case is one of the earliest extensively documented vampire incidents in European history. In 1725, following the death of Petar Blagojević in the Serbian village of Kisiljevo, nine villagers reportedly died after brief illnesses and were said to have claimed before death that Blagojević had attacked them during the night. Austrian administrator Ernst Frombald attended the subsequent exhumation and recorded observations of the corpse that local residents interpreted as signs of vampirism. Villagers then staked and burned the body, while Frombald's written account wa…
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