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Peter Plogojowitz

Ibuye libizwe: Petar Blagojević, Петар Благојевић
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafi1500 kuya ku-1899

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

Lwa nayo
Kuqoshwe kuqala
1725
Report by the Austrian Imperial Provisor Frombald, 1725
Imvelaphi
Serbian
I-Serbia
Okuyibangela
Akuchazwanga
The villagers gave no cause; they simply identified the dead man as the source of the deaths.
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • a stake through the heart
  • burning the body

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Izwe lasenduloEzikhathini Eziphakathi1500 kuya ku-18991900 kuya ku-19671968 kuya ku-19992000 kuya ku-20092010 kuya namuhla1725

Report by the Austrian Imperial Provisor Frombald, 1725

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Imithombo

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

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Amasiko avela emazweni afanayo

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

Inkathi efanayo: 1500 kuya ku-1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870ChurelSouth Asian, 1880NachzehrerGerman, 1800
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