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Jure Grando

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Giure Grando, Jure Grando Alilović

Jure Grando of Kringa is often described as the first named individual recorded as a vampire in European print. The Carniolan scholar Valvasor reported how, sixteen years after Grando's death, the villagers and their priest dug him up, failed to stake him and finally cut off his head. The door-knocking that marks a household for death recurs across Balkan and Greek revenant lore. Kringa now promotes the story to visitors.12

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1672
Beheaded in 1672 according to the account published by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
Imvelaphi
Istrian (Croatian)
ICroatia
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ayizange icaciswe
The legend does not explain why he rose; he is simply called a štrigon, the local word for a sorcerer or vampire.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • decapitation
  • a hawthorn stake was tried and failed

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Beheaded in 1672 according to the account published by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

A stonemason of Kringa in Istria who died of illness in 165612

2

For sixteen years he was said to knock on doors at night, and someone in each house died soon after12

3

He was also said to assault his widow in her bed12

4

Nine villagers opened the grave and found the body intact and smiling12

5

The stake rebounded from his chest; when a villager sawed off the head the corpse screamed and bled12

Imithombo

  1. Jure Grando - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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