Chapter 4

''Thesis about the appearance of angels, demons and ghosts, as well as the appearance of vampires in Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (1746)''

Chapter 4

Corpses Hungarian, sucks the blood from living

Now we are going to cite one case of 1732, published in the 18 th issue of the journal''Glaner.''
In certain countries of Hungary, which lies on the other side of the Tisza, that is, between this recommended., Irrigating blessed Tokayerbetsirk and Zebenbyurgenom, live people, known by the name of soldiers. These people believe that the known dead, whom they call vampires suck blood from living people, which they apparently lose weight, while the corpses of vampires before filled with blood, it seeps from their bodies. This view is a very short time many of the facts, the truth of which, apparently, can not be doubted, if we take into account the nature of those who pass them. We intend to bring out these facts only the most remarkable. Nearly five years before these things, which the soldier from the village of Arnold Paola Medoezua in Serbia, which said that during his life he was deeply tormented vampire, died (broken neck) and twenty or thirty days after that he killed four people who witnessed it unfortunate death. Forty days after the burial of his corpse dug up and found a vampire, as found that corruption does not touch his body, mouth, eyes and nose was quite fresh blood, so that all his clothes were covered with blood, and body and nails formed A layer of blood. As usual, he pierced his heart with a stake, while he issued a very distinct groan and blood flowed strongly through a hole, then the corpse was burned. Signs of vampirism, also found in the corpses of those four people who were killed him, because all those who vampire tortured and murdered, themselves become vampires. Arnold Paolo attacked not only people but also for livestock, and people who eat the meat of these animals, too, turned into vampires, yet in the course of three months, seventeen people died. Among the dead was also known Stanoska, daughter chasseur Iotuytso. This girl went to bed perfectly healthy, but at midnight, woke up with a terrible cry, and complained that the deceased before this week's son chasseur - Millo strangling her throat after she felt a sharp pain in the chest and died eight days later.

We went to the cemetery and dug among the thirteen bodies ten were vampires and only three corpses who died from other diseases, were rotten. Between the vampires were Stanoska and Millo, who made her a vampire. On the neck girl sex right ear, a place for which, according to her, strangled her Millo, really got the blood stain blue length of a finger. At the opening of the coffin of her nose poured blood, and Flekinger, regimental surgeon, with Anatomy of the corpse found in the heart and the thoracic cavity, as he put it, very balsamic blood. Clothes on it does not rotted, skin and nails are perfectly fresh. For everyone who is recognized by vampires, according to the custom of this country, were decapitated and the bodies burned. All of these studies we have made over the vampires throughout the legal form and witnessed by many officers who were in these cases, the regimental surgeon and the best people from local residents. Protocol drawn up on the case, was sent to the royal council of war, where was outfitted military commission to study all these facts.