Arnold Paole

Maqaa biraa: Arnont Paule, Arnaut Pavle, Arnold Paul

Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'e1500 hanga 1899

The Arnold Paole case turned a Serbian village belief into a European sensation. After two waves of deaths at Medveđa, Habsburg army surgeons led by Johann Flückinger opened the graves, catalogued the state of each corpse and signed an official report in Belgrade in January 1732. Because the witnesses were medical officers, the report was taken seriously, reprinted widely and argued over by scholars such as Augustin Calmet. It fixed the idea of undeath as something contagious that passes from corpse to victim.1 2

Lolsiisi

Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame

1732

Austrian military commission report dated 26 January 1732

Ka'umsa

Serbian

Serbiyaa

Maaltu isa fida

Kan biroo

Paole said he had been plagued by a vampire in Ottoman territory; villagers believed its victims became vampires in turn.

Akkamitti isa taata

By being plagued by a vampire; those Paole tormented were treated as vampires in their turn.

Bakkeewwan laafoo

a stake through the heart
beheading
burning the body and throwing the ashes in the river

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa durii Jaarraa Gidduugaleessaa 1500 hanga 1899 1900 hanga 1967 1968 hanga 1999 2000 hanga 2009 2010 hanga har'aa

1732

Austrian military commission report dated 26 January 1732

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

A hajduk who settled at Medveđa and died around 1726 after falling from a hay wagon1 2

He claimed to have cured himself earlier by eating earth from a vampire's grave and smearing himself with its blood1 2

Four people accused him of tormenting them and died; at forty days his body was found fresh and groaned and bled when staked1 2

In the winter of 1731-32 a new wave of deaths brought two Austrian medical investigations1 2

The surgeons recorded twelve well-preserved bodies as being 'in the vampiric condition' and had them beheaded and burned1 2

Maddoota

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Seenaa aadaa biyyoota wal fakkaatan irraa

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

Peter PlogojowitzSerbian, 1725

Bara wal fakkaataa: 1500 hanga 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

AbhartachIrish, 1870

ChurelSouth Asian, 1880

NachzehrerGerman, 1800