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Peter Plogojowitz

Era ayitibwa: Petar Blagojević, Петар Благојевић

Peter Plogojowitz is one of the best documented cases of a village destroying a suspected walking corpse. After a run of sudden deaths in Kisilova in 1725, the villagers forced the local Austrian administrator to witness the exhumation, staking and burning of the dead man. His report was printed in the Vienna paper Wienerisches Diarium and reprinted across Europe. Together with the Arnold Paole affair it launched the 18th-century vampire debate, and the 'signs' he described are now understood as normal decomposition.12

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
1725
Report by the Austrian Imperial Provisor Frombald, 1725
Gy'ava
Serbian
Serbia
Ekikireeta
Tekyannyonnyolwa
The villagers gave no cause; they simply identified the dead man as the source of the deaths.
Ebifo ebinafu
  • a stake through the heart
  • burning the body
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

A peasant of Kisilova, then newly under Habsburg rule, who died in 172512

2

Nine people died within eight days, each after about a day's illness, saying he had throttled them at night12

3

His widow said he had come back to ask for his shoes, and she left the village12

4

The exhumed body was undecayed, with new skin and nails, grown hair and beard and blood in the mouth12

5

When staked, fresh blood ran from the ears and mouth; the official asked his superiors not to blame him for allowing it12

Ensibuko

  1. Peter Plogojowitz - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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