Vampire Peter Tom.

Vampire Peter Tom.


Authorities in Craiova (Craiova), in south-western Romania, launched an investigation against six people who dug his recently deceased relative, and claimed that he turned into a vampire and sucks their blood at night.
A few days after the funeral, who died last year at the age of 76 years, Peter Thomas (Petre Toma), who was a former teacher at the request of his family turned into a vampire, and the night came to suck their blood. People claim that they have become so weak that it could hardly move. Then they decided to dig it.
The body of Peter Tom was desecrated six weeks after his funeral. His brother was in the presence of other family members, including his widow and his granddaughter made the cut in the chest cavity to remove Tom heart. According to local custom, to protect themselves against the vampire, you need to cut and burn the heart, and then dissolve the ash in the ash and water to drink and the sick. The autopsy, which was conducted by the authorities in Craiova, confirmed that "the heart was actually cut."
Six men, alleged that after the death of Thomas they felt weak, as if they were losing a lot of blood constantly. "One night I saw him in his room, and in the morning I could not get out of bed, because I was very weak from loss of blood," said Tom granddaughter, Mirela Marinescu (Mirela Marinescu). According to her, as soon as the ritual of exorcism performed on the dead body of Peter, he would "not come and did not pursue the" family.
She also said that in many villages of the area is used, and a ritual practiced since ancient times, and is the most "effective way to fight against the vampires." "For centuries we have had to defend themselves against these creatures coming out of their graves," said 68-year-old Tito Flies (Tita Musca), a local farmer.
The story began a few days after the funeral of the deceased, in the last year at the age of 76 years Peter Thomas. That at the request of his family turned into a vampire, and night came to suck their blood. Immediately after his funeral, his family fell ill nephew unexplained illness and many people claimed to have seen Tom, who left his house before sunrise and a flock of crows flew away.
"He sucked the life out of us, that he could not continue to live," said Mirela Marinescu (Mirela Marinescu). "We all would have died, my husband and my baby. We all saw him, he came to us when we were sleeping." People claim that they have become so weak that it could hardly move. Then they decided to dig it and make an old ritual.
Together with friends brother of the late George Marinescu (Gheorghe Marinescu), went to the cemetery and broke down the door vault. Armed with pitchforks, scythes and chisel, they broke into the tomb of Peter Thomas.
"When we raised the lid of the coffin, his hands were on his chest, as we put them at the funeral, and were stretched along the body," said Marinescu. "His head was turned to the side, his lips were splattered with dried blood."
The sister of the deceased said - "When a normal person dies, his heart is also dying and blood will not flow through it two weeks after the funeral. Unless he's a vampire. Therefore it dug up and did as told in the ancient traditional stories of vampires. "
They took his body was cut from ear to ear. Pierced his chest with a wooden stake, and dragged out of his heart. "It was full of fresh blood," said Marinescu. "His body relaxed, and we heard him sigh." Then they burned the heart on the cross, collected the ashes, mixed with ash and water, and put it in a bottle. In order to give the drink a "potion" in the village of "victims" vampire (all patients), so that they feel better and they could recover their strength.
After that, Tom's daughter called the police. Investigator for the case, soon found evidence of other such rituals, there were about twenty in the last few years. The district police commissioner, George Sandu (Gheorghe Sandu), said: "I would like to say that this village is unique and a single case, but unfortunately I can not. 'Cause I know how strong the belief in vampires here."
Newspaper «The Daily Telegraph» reported that six people were jailed for desecrating the graves of Peter Thomas.
Monica Petrescu (Monica Petrescu), the reporter who first excavated the material, from Bucharest, said in his report of this shocking event, "Many Romanians believe in vampires. And for them, vampires are not a legend, and a terrible reality. The rite was performed shortly before midnight, Gheorghe Marinescu (Gheorghe Marinescu) and five of his relatives came to the cemetery small Romanian village Marotinul de Sus. They found, a crypt with a simple wooden cross with the name of Tom Petri - and quickly and quietly, dig it. Then they dragged the body and have to wait when it's midnight. This is the time needed to conduct a ritual handed down from generation to generation, in every family in this village. Marinescu began a ritual that they had planned. He cut his chest Petre Toma forks and pulled the heart. The men then sprinkled with garlic mutilated corpse, and carefully put it back into the grave. After that, they left the cemetery with a heart that they put at the end of pitchforks and rushed to the intersection where Marinescu waiting for his wife, son and daughter. There they burned it, and the ashes were dissolved in water and ash, and then gave the old woman drank the solution, which immediately felt better. He and five of his relatives - Matrix Mircea (Mitrica Mircea), Pop Stilitsa (Popa Stelica), Constantin Florea (Constantin Florea), Ion Ionescu (Ionescu Ion) and Pascu Oprea (Pascu Oprea) - were sentenced to six months in prison for illegally exhumation of the body of Tom.
While most people simply fascinating vampire legend, for many Romanians, mostly in rural areas, they are a terrible reality. All the villages of Romania, live in the 21st century, but do not part with the old beliefs that are true for many.
After the arrest, Marinescu said: "If we had not done anything, my wife, my son and my daughter died. When we got his body, I saw some things that surprised me and helped make ancient rite. When we got him out of the grave, he had blood around his mouth. We took his heart, and he sighed, when I hit him with a knife. We burned, the ashes dissolved in water and ash, the people who are sick and they drank immediately felt better. It was like, someone had taken all the pains and diseases. "

"We had a ritual that is hundreds of years. We had no idea that he was committing a crime. Contrary, we believe that we are doing everything right and all is good, because the spirit of Peter would have pursued and would have killed many. He came back from the dead, and we could be the same as he is. "
When Marinescu was arrested, he told police that Tom, was a respected and a good teacher, he was loved and respected in the village. He was buried on Christmas Day in 2003. But soon after, he began to come to a family member Marinescu as a vampire. Although he did not see him, he noticed that his family become weak and sick. They told him that Tom comes to them as a vampire, whose spirit has returned from the dead.
He, like the rest of his family, believe in vampires. They knew how to fight with the vampires from the parents who attended and shared their knowledge, in turn, from their parents, and they are on their own. He said that he had to act quickly to save his family.
Paula Diaconu (Paula Diaconu), who lives in Marotinul de Sus for decades, approved the holding of a ritual that made Marinescu and his relatives. "All he did the right thing, we had to cut out the heart of the deceased, as the people were in danger. Villagers in Romania know about the exorcism rituals of the Dead" - he said.
One of the rural women, interviews with confidence told a reporter, "We, of course, pulled out the heart of the deceased, or so many people would die. Some people say it's a lie, but the truth can not be hidden. Vampires exist, and they definitely need to pull out of the heart, so that they could not eat other people. " On the question of what could happen if I pulled Tom's heart - "Then people would have died. So many people are sick of it. "
Another man from the village of Dumitru Moines (Dumitru Moineasa), who believes in the ritual, and once drank a solution, which contained the ashes of the heart of his uncle, said - "My uncle died in 1992, a few days after we buried him, I felt very bad. doctor did not know what to do and what happened to me. Once aunt brought me a glass of water. I drank it and immediately felt better. I only found out later that this is the ashes of my heart, the dead uncle. "
His friend, Domnica Brancusi (Domnica Brancusi), said that such a ritual was performed with the late more than once in their villages, and many who drank a solution, feel better and recovered. "In our villages, there were dozens of dead men, who turned into a vampire after death, and persecuted us," he said. "But, as a rule, the family of the deceased, who was wandering among the people, committed ritual over him. They just do not talk about it to others. They held secret ritual and trying not to attract attention, that someone did not know about it."
Local police have filed charges against six people, only after the daughter of the late Peter Tom Floeri Kotoran (Floarea Cotoran), approached them with a request to the desecration of the grave. She told them what had happened to the body of her father, and about the ritual.
At the police station admitted that they were aware of the commission of similar rituals that were held in these regions. One of the officers, who control the territory of the village Marotinul de Sus, asked not to be named, said that the police know about this for a long time. "We know of the commission of such rituals for many years. We never did and when not to press charges for the desecration of graves, as someone in the village did not complain about it."
Marotinul de Sus in the south-west of Romania, this is not the only village that believes and perceives a threat to vampires seriously. In many villages across the country, the belief in vampires is a widespread superstition and often regulate people's lives. "Fear and big problems that were encountered on the way people in life, forced them to perform such ceremonies, and believe in all kinds of superstitions. Their set of rules built over many generations, which were hardening time", says Sabine Ispas (Sabina Ispas), anthropologist at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Bucharest. "Rural Romanians perfectly preserved the system of rites and beliefs."
Maria Tedeschi (Maria Tedescu), 21-year-old law student in Bucharest, said: "Each of us superstitious. Many believe in omens. But as vampires, they are different. They can not be taken lightly. I know it sounds stupid , and I can not explain it to you in full, but I think that they exist. I always wear a crucifix ... just in case. "