Visum et Repertum von Flckinger

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ber die sogenannte Vampyrs oder Blutaussaugers, so zu Medwegya in Servien, an der trckischen
Grniz, den 7. Januarii 1732 geschehen.

Nachdem die Anzeig beschehen, da in dem Dorf Medvegya die sogenannte Vampyrs einige
Persohnen durch Aussaugung des Bluts umgebracht haben sollen, als bin ich auf hohe Anordnung
eines alhiesig Lblichen Obercommando, umb die Sach vollstndig zu untersuchen, nebst darzu
commandirten Herrn Officirn und 2 Unterfeldscherern dahin abgeschicket, und gegenwrtige
Inquisition in Beyseyn des der Stalater Heydukhen Capitain Gorschitz, Hadnack, Barjactar und
ltesten Heydukhen des Dorfs, folgendermassen vorgenohmen, und abgehrt worden.

Welche dan einhellig Aussaag, da vor ohngefehr 5 Jahren ein hiesiger Heydukh, nahmens Arnont
Paule, sich durch einen Fahl von einem Hewag den Hals gebrochen; dieser hat bey seinen

Lebszeiten sich fters verlauten lassen, da er bei Cossowa in dem Trckischen Servien von einem
Vampyren geplagt worden sey, dahero er von der Erden des Vampyrsgrab gegessen, und sich mit
dessen Blut geschmieret habe, umb von der erlittenen Plag entledigt zu werden. In 20 oder 30 Tg
nach seinem Todtfahl haben sich einige Leth geklaget, da sie von dem gedachten Arnont Paule
geplaget wrden; wie dan auch wrcklich 4 Persohnen von ihme umbgebracht worden.

Umb nun dieses bel einzustellen, haben sie auf Einrahten ihres Hadnacks, welcher schon vorhin
bey dergleichen Begebenheiten gewesen, diesen Arnont Paule in beyluffig 40 Tg nach seinem Todt
ausgegraben, und gefunden, da er ganz vollkommen und unverwesen seye; auch ihme das frische
Bluht zu den Augen, Nasen, Mund, und Ohren herausgeflossen, das Hemmet, bertuch, und die
Trugel ganz blutig gewesen; die alte Ngl an Hnden und Fssen, sambt der Haut abgefallen, und
dargegen andre neue gewachsen seyn. Weilen sie nun daraus ersehen, da er ein wrcklicher Vampyr
seye, so haben sie demselben nach ihrer Gewohnheit einen Pfahl durch das Herz geschlagen, worbey
er ein wohlvernehmlich Grchazen gethan, und ein huffiges Geblt von sich gelassen. Worauf sie
den Crper gleich selbig Tags zu Aschen verbrent, und solchen in das Grab geworffen. Ferners sagen
obgedachte Lethe aus, da alle diejenige, welche von denen Vampyrs geplagt, und umbgebracht
wurden, ebenfalls zu Vampyrs werden mssen. Also haben sie die obberhrte vier Persohnen auf
gleiche Arth exequirt. Deine fgen sie auch hinzu, da dieser Arnont Paule nicht allein die Lethe,
sondern auch das Vieh angegrifen, und ihnen das Blut ausgesauget habe. Weilen nun die Leth das
Fleisch von solch Vieh genutzet, so zeiget sich aufs nee, da sich wiederumben einige Vampyrs
alhier befinden; allermassen in Zeit 3er Monahten 17 jung und alte Persohnen mit Todt abgegangen,
worunter einige ohne vorhero gehabter Krankheit in zweyen oder lngstens dreyen Tag gestorben.
Darbey meldt der Heydukh Joviza, da seine Schwigertochter nahmens Stanoika vor 15 Tg frisch
und gesund sich schlafen geleget; umb Mitternacht aber ist sie mit einem entsetzlich Geschrey, Forcht
und Zittern aus dem Schlaf aufgefahren, und geklaget, da von einem vor 9 Wochen verstorbenen
Heydukhenssohn nahmens Milloe seye umb den Hals gewrget worden, worauf sie grosse
Schmertzen auf der Brust empfunden und von Stund zu Stund sich schlechter befunden, bis sie
endlich den 3ten Tag gestorben. Hierauf seynd wir denselbig Nachmittag auf den Freydhof, umb die
verdchtige Grber erffnen zu lassen, nebst denen oft gemeldeten altesten Heydukhen des Dorfs
ausgegangen, die darin sich befindlichen Crper zu visitiren, worbey nach sambentlicher Secierung
sich gezeiget:

lmo. Ein Weib Nahmens Stana, zwantzig Jahr alt, so vor 2 Monahten nach 3-tgiger Krankheit ihrer
Niederkunft gestorben, und vor ihren Todt selbsten ausgegesaget, da sie sich mit dem Blut eines
Vampyrs gestrichen htte, folglich sowohl sie, als ihr Kind (welches gleich nach der Geburth
gestorben, und durch leichtsinnige Begrbnus von denen Hunden bis auf die Helfte verzehret worden)
ebenfals Vampyren werden mssen, ware ganz vollkommen und unverwesen. Nach Erfnung des
Crpers zeigete sich in Cavitate Pectoris 13 eine Quantitt frisches extravasirtes 14 Gebleth; die
Vasa als Arteriae et Venae15 nebst denen Ventriculis Cordis16 waren nicht, wie sonst gewhnlich,
mit coagulirten Gebleth 17 impleiret; die sambtliche Viscera als Pulmo, Hepar, Stomachus, Lien et
Intestina18 waren darbey ganz frisch, gleich bey einen gesunden Menschen; der Uterus aber befand
sich ganz gro, und externe sehr inflammiret, weillen Placendam, als auch die 1,ochias bey ihr
geblieben19, dahero selbiger putredine ware. Die Haut an Hnden und an Fssen, sambt den alten
Nglen fiellen von sich selbsten herunter; herentgegen zeigeten sich nebst einer frischen und
lebhafften Haut ganz nee Ngl.

2do. Ware ein Weib Nahmens Miliza, beylufig 60 Jahr alt, welche nach 3-monahtlicher Krankheit
zestorben, und vor etlich und 90 Tg begraben worden. In der Brust befand sich villes liquides
Geblet, die brige Viscera waren gleich der vorgemelten in einem guten Stand. Es haben sich bey
der Secierung die umbstehende sambentliche Heydukhen ber ihren fetten, und vollkommenen Leib
sehr verwundert, einhellig aussagend, da sie das Weib von ihrer Jugend auf wohl gekennet, und Zeit
ihres Lebens ganz mager und ausgedrter ausgesehen, und gewesen, mit nachdrucklicher
Vermeldung, da sie in dem Grabe zu eben dieser verwunderungswrdigen Fettigkeit gelanget seye.
Auch der Uthen Aussaag nach solle sie jetziger Zeit den Anfang derer Vampyren gemacht haben,
zumahlen sie das Fleisch von denen Schafen, so von denen vorhergehenden Vampyren umbgebracht
worden, gegessen hat.

3tio. Befande sich ein achttgiges Kind, welches 90 Tag im Grab gelegen, gleichermassen im
Vampyrenstande.

4to. Wurde ein Heydukhsohn, Milloe, 16 Jahr alt, ausgegraben, so 9 Wochen in der Erden gelegen,
und nach 3 tgiger Krankheit gestorben, gleich denen andern Vampyren gefunden.

5to. Ist der Joachim, auch eines Heydukh Sohn, 17 Jahr alt, in 3 tgiger Krankheit gestorben, nachdem
er 8 Wochen und 4 Tag begraben gewesen; befand sich bey der Section gleichergestalten. 6to. Ein
Weib Nahmens Ruscha, welche nach 10 tgiger Krankheit gestorben, und vor 6 Wochen begraben
worden; bey welcher auch vill frisches Geblet, nicht allein in der Brust, sondern auch in fundo
ventriculi20 gefunden habe, gleichfals bey ihrem Kind, so 18 Tg alt ware und vor 5 Wochen
gestorben, es sich gezeiget hat.

7mo. Nicht weniger befand sich ein Mgdlein von 10 Jahren, welche vor 2 Monahten gestorben, in
obangezogenem Stande; ganz vollkommen und unverwesen, und hatte in der Brust villes frisches
Geblet.

8vo. Hat man des Hadnacks Eheweib sambt ihrem Kind ausgraben lassen, welche vor 7 Wochen, ihr
Kind aber, so 8 Wochen alt ware, und vor 21 Tg gestorben, darbey aber gefunden, da so wohl die
Mutter als das Kind vllig verweesen, obwohlen sie gleich der Erden und Grbern deren
nchstgelegenen Vampyren gewesen waren.
9no. Ein Knecht des heisigen Heydukh Corporals Nahmens Rhade, 23 Jahr alt, ist in 3-monathlicher
Krankheit gestorben, und nach 5-wochentlicher Begrbnus vllig verweesen gefunden worden.

10mo. Des hiesigen Bariactars sein Weib sambt ihrem Kind, so vor 5 Wochen gestorben, waren
gleichermassen vllig verweesen. llmo. Bey dem Staniko, ein Heydukh 60 Jahr alt, so vor 6 Wochen
gestorben, habe ich ein hufiges, gleich denen andern liquides Gebleth in der Brust und Magen
gefunden, das ganze Corpus ware in oftbenannten Vampyrenstand.

12mo. Miloe, ein Heydukh, 25 Jahr alt, so 6 Wochen in der Erden gelegen, befande sich gleich
angemeldtem Vampyrenstand. 13tio. Stanoicka eines Heydukh Weib, 20 Jahr alt, ist in 3 tgiger
Krankheit gestorben, und vor 18 Tg begraben worden; bey der Secierung habe ich gefunden, da sie
in dem Angesicht ganz roht, und lebhafter Farb ware, und wie oben gemeldet, sie von des Heydukhens
Sohn Nahmens Miloe sey umb Mitternacht umb den Hals gewrget worden; sich auch
augenscheinlich gezeiget, da sie rechter Seithen unter dem Ohr einen blauen mit Blueth
unterloffenen Fleck eines Fingers lang gehabt. Bey Herausnehmung ihres Grabs flosse ein Quantitt
frisches Gebleth aus der Nasen; nach der Secirung fande ich, wie schon oft gedacht, ein rechtes
balsamisches frisches Gebleth 21, nicht allein in der Hle der Brust, sondern auch in ventriculo
cordis. Die sammentliche Viscera befanden sich in vollkommenen gesunden und guthen Statu; die
untere Haut des ganzen Crpers, sambt denen frischen Nglen an Hnden und Fssen, waren
gleichsam ganz frisch.

Nach geschehener Visitation seynd denen Vampyren die Kpf durch die dasige Zigeuners herunter
geschlagen, und sambt denen Crpern verbrent, die Aschen davon in den Flu Morova

9eworfen, die verwesene Leiber aber widrumb in ihre vorgehende Grber geleget worden.Welches
hiemit sambt den mir zugegebenen 2 Unterfeldscherern bevestigen. Actum ut supra:

L.S. Johann Flckinger, Regiments Feldscherer, Lblichen Baron Frstenbuschischen Regiments zu

Fue.

L.S. Siegele, Feldscherer von Lblich Marull. Regiment.

L.S. Johann Friedrich Baumgarten, Feldscherer Lblich Obrist Baron Frstenbuschischen Regiments
zu Fue.

Wir ends Unterschribene attestiren hiemit, wie da alles dasjenige, so der Regimentsfeldscherer von
Frtenbuschlichen Lblichen Regiment sambt beyden nebenunterzeichneten Feldscherersgesellen,
hieroben denen Vampyren betreffend, in Augenschein genohmen, in allem und jedem der Wahrheit
gem, und in unser selbsteigener Gegenwarth vorgenohmen, visitiret und examiniret worden; zur
dessen Bekrftigung ist unser eigenhndige Unterschrifft und Fertigung. Belgrad den 26. Jan.
1732.L.S. Bttner, Oberlethnant Lblich Alexandrischen Regiments. L.S. J.H. von Lindenfels
Fhnrich Lblich Alexandrischen Regiments."
 Bericht des Medicus Glaser
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Bericht des Contagions-Medicus Glaser an die Jagodiner Kommandantur (nach dem 12. 12. 1732).
Nachdem die zustndigen Militrbehrden Glasers Bericht erhalten, ordnen sie die Untersuchung der
Vorflle unter Leitung des Regimentfeldschern Johann Flckinger an.

Glaser fertigt von seinem Bericht eine Kopie an, die er spter seinem Vater dem Wiener Arzt Johann
Friedrich Glaser, der auch gleichzeitig Korrespondent der Nrnberger Zeitschrift "Commercium
Litterarium" ist, zusendet. Dieser informiert seinerseits die Redaktion in Nrnberg.

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von der Dorffschafft Metwett an der Morawa, welche sich beklagten eines Sterbes, darauf ich als
Physicus Contumaciae Caesareae 5 zu Parakin dahin gegangen, selbiges,Dorff von Hau zu Hau
wol und genau durchsuchte und examinirete, den 12. Decembris 1731; allein darinnen keine einzige
ansteckende Kranckheit oder cantagiose Zustnde gefunden ' al Tertian-, und Quartanfieber ,
Seithenstechen, und Brustbeschwhrnussen, welche alle von gehabten Depouchen 8 vor ihrer
Rzischen Fasten herrhren. Da ich aber weithers inquirirete, warumben sie sich dann also
beschwhren, da durch 6 Wochen 13 Persohnen gestorben seyen, und in was sie sich beklagten,
bevor sie seynd abgeschieden, meldten sie imgleichen, das Seithenstechen und
Brustbeschwhrnussen, auch lang gehabten Fiebern, und Glieder-Reissen, von welchen Zustnden
aber sie vermeinen, die allzu geschwinde Begrbnussen, nacheinander nicht mglich seyn kann,
herzurhren, wohl aber weill die genannten Vambyres, oder Bluthseiger, verhanden seynd. Darauf
ich, al auch ihre eigene Officiers, nach aller Mglichkeit ihnen es au dem Sinn zu bringen, im
Beyseyn des Fhrers von Kragobaz al Corporalen von Stallada, redten und explicireten; allein nicht
mglich, ihre Opinion zu benehmen ware. Und sageten, ehe sie sich lassen dergestalten umbringen,
wollen sie sich lieber auf ein anderes Orth sezen; wie auch 2, 3 Huser nchtlicher Zeit zusamben
gehen, theils schlaffen, die andere wachen, es werde auch nicht ehender aufhren zu sterben, bi nicht
von einer lblichen Obrigkeit nach selbstaigener Resolution eine Execution9 denen benannten
Vampyres angeschaffet, und angethann werde. Dann bey Lebszeiten waren in dem Dorff zwey
Weiber, welche sich haben vervampyret, und nach ihren Todt werden sie ingleichen Vampyres, die
sie widerumb andere werden vervampyren, gesprochen. Solche also seynd vor 7 Wochen gestorben,
und pertinaciter die Leut darauf beharren, obsonderlich auf jenes altes Weib, dannenhero habe ich 10
Grber erffnen lassen, umb grndliche Warheit zu berichtigen. Und zwar erstlichen jenes alte Weib,
auf welches sie sich steifen, den Anfang gemacht zu haben, mit Nahmen Miliza. Vampyer met 50
Jahr, liegt 7 Wochen, ist vor 6 Jahren von trckischer Seitten herber gekommen, und hat sich zu
Metwett gesezet, allezeit nachbahrlich gelebet, niemahls wissend ob sie etwas habe Diabolisches
geglaubet, oder geknstlet; drhgerichter Constitutionlo whrende Lebszeit; aber gegen denen
Nachbahren erzehlet, sie habe 2 Schaff zezessen in dem Trckischen, welche die Vampyres
umgebracht, dannenhero, wann sie sterben werde, ingleichen ein Vampyer seyn wird, auf welche
Reden der gemeine Pevel ihre Opinion vestiglich gegrndet. Solche Persohn ich auch wrcklichen
gesehen; und weillen selbe sollte vorhin einer drhgerichten Constitution des Leibs seyn gewesen,
alt von Jahren, 7 Wochen lang gelegen, in keiner Truchen, sondern blossen feichten Erden, wre
notwendig halbs schon verweesen zu seyn; allein sie ware annoch das Maul offen habend, das helle
frische Bluth au Nasen und Maul herau gefloen, der Leib hoch aufgeblasen, und mit Bluth
unterloffen, welches mir selbst suspect vorkommet; und denen Leutten nicht unrecht geben kan, nach
entirezener Erfnung einiger Grber, welche waren jnger von Jahren, fetter Constitution bey
Lebenszeit, kurz vor augestandener Kranckheitszeit, und zwar geringer Kranckheit, al solche Alte,
seynd also verwesen, wie sich es auf einen rechtmssigen Leichnamb gehret. Das andere Weib, al
Vampyr mit Nahmen Stanno, ein Weib in Gebhren gestorben, das Kind auf die Welt gebracht, aber
auch gleich gestorben, ware alt 20 Jahr, liegt begrabener 1 Monath, bekennete, und erzehlete gegen
denen Nachbahren bey Lebenszeit, da sie, da sie noch in den Trckischen ware, allwo die Vampyres
auch sehr starck regireten, umb sie vor solche zu beschzen, schmrbetell sie sich einstens mit eines
Vampyres Bluth, wo sie auch nach ihrem Todt ein Vampyr wird werden, gesprochen. Welche also
beschaffen ware, wie die erstere, ingleichen das unmundige Kind. Und weillen dises Kind die Tauff
noch nicht hat empfangen, haben sie es nicht in den Freydhoff geleget, sondern hinter einen Zauhn,
alwo die Mutter hat gewohnet; welches ich auch gesehen habe. Ingleichen waren die andere
beschaffen, und kurz nacheinander darauf gestorben, welche sich mit vervampyret haben, nach denen
Leuten ihrer Opinion: Al Vampyr: Milloi, ein Kerl von 14 Jahren, liegt 5 Wochen; Joachim, ein Kerl
von 15 Jahren, liegt 5 Wochen; seyn ein Tag voneinander gestorben, al vorgehabter Depouchen ihrer
Fasten bey einem Nahmenstag eines Dorffheyducken, seynd ingleichen wie die anderen also
beschaffen. Ruschiza, ein Weib von 40 Jahren, liegt 15 tag, ist halb suspect. Petter, ein Kind von 15
tag alt, liegt 5 wochen, ist sehr suspect. Nunmehro, weillen jezige vor jngeren Jahren waren, krzer
von Kranckheitsaffliction, und zwar sehr schlechterner, auch krzerer Zeit im Grab liegen, gnzlich,
wie sich es gehret, verweesen seyn, sagen die Metwezer, warumb dise, und die andere nicht, da sie
viel strcker corpulenter, jnger und frischer waren, al die anderen, dannoch schon gnzlich
verwesen seyn. Welche Raison nicht uneben scheinet, und seyn jenige, al Milosowa von Heyducken
seine Frau, ware alt 30 Jahr, liegt 3 Wochen, ist vor dise Zeit zimblich verwesen, wie es sich gehret,
auch jenige, wie folgen: Radi, ein Kerl von 24 Jahren, liegt 3 Wochen. Wutschiza, ein Jung von 9
Jahren, liegt 1 Monath.

Dannenhero bitten sie unterthnig, es mchte doch von einer Lblichen Obrigkeit eine Execution
nach Guttachten, dises Malum abzuwenden, ergehen, woselbst ich vor gut halte, umb selbe
Unterthanen zu befridigen, dieweilen es ein zimbliches grosses Dorff ist; dann in re ipsa befindet es
sich also."

Arnold Paole
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Arnold Paole (Arnont Paule in the original documents; an early German rendition of a Serbian name
or nickname, perhaps , Arnaut Pavle; died c. 1726) was a Serbian hajduk who was
believed to have become a vampire after his death, initiating an epidemic of supposed vampirism that
killed at least 16 people in his native village of Meduegna (also rendered as Metwett; likely a German
rendition of Serbian "Medvea)", located at the West Morava river in Trstenik, Serbia.[1][2][3][4]
Paole's case, similar to that of Petar Blagojevich, became famous because of the direct involvement
of the Austrian authorities and the documentation by Austrian physicians and officers, who confirmed
the reality of vampires. Their report of the case was distributed in Western Europe and contributed to
the spread of vampire belief among educated Europeans. The report and its significance for the
subsequent eighteenth century vampire controversy are nowadays explained with the poor
understanding of the process of corpse decomposition at the time.[5]
Knowledge of the case is based mostly on the reports of two Austrian military doctors, Glaser and
Flckinger, who were successively sent to investigate the case.[6][7][8] Scholars have suggested that
Paole's case has influenced the depiction of vampires in popular culture texts.[5][9]
Contents
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1Background
2The first outbreak
 3The second outbreak
4The investigation
5See also
6Notes
7Sources
Background
With the Treaty of Passarowitz (Poarevac, 1718), the Habsburg Monarchy annexed most
of Serbia and the northern part of Bosnia, territories which had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
These remained in Austrian control until the Treaty of Belgrade (1739), when the Austrians were
forced to cede them back to the Turks. During this 20-year period, these newly conquered boundary
districts were subject to direct military rule from Vienna for strategic, fiscal and other reasons. As a
result of the devastation brought about by previous Austrian-Ottoman wars, these areas were in poor
condition, with a scarce and partly nomadic population, little agriculture and an emphasis on cattle-
breeding. The Austrian authorities sought to further economic development and to attract German-
speaking Serbian settlers to the new territories. Many of the Serbs, especially those who had
immigrated from Ottoman-held areas, were recruited as militiamen (hajduks) for the peacetime
protection of the borders and for regular military service at war, in exchange for unalienable lots of
land. It was in these communities that the earliest well-documented alleged vampire attacks were
attested.
The first outbreak
This outbreak is only known from Flckinger's report about the second epidemic and its prehistory.
According to the account of the Medvea locals as retold there, Arnold Paole was a hajduk who had
moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. He reportedly often mentioned that
he had been plagued by a vampire at a location named Gossowa (perhaps Kosovo), but that he had
cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. About
1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four
persons complained that they had been plagued by him. These people all died shortly thereafter. It
was then remembered that Arnold had often related in the environs of Cassanovia, and on the Turkish
Servia, he had often been tormented by a Turkish vampire. He also relayed that he attempted to cure
himself by eating earth of the grave of the vampire, and smearing himself with his blood.[A 1] Ten
days later, and forty days after Arnold's death, the villagers, advised by their hadnack (a
military/administrative title) who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. They saw that
the corpse was undecomposed with all the indications of a arch-vampire. His veins were replete with
fluid-blood "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the
covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with
the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Further, "his body was red, his hair, nails and
beard had all grown again. Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through
his heart, to which he reacted by frightful shriek as if he were alive, groaning and bleeding, and burned
the body. That done, they cut off his head and burnt the whole body. They then disinterred Paole's
four supposed victims and performed the same procedure, to prevent them from becoming vampires
as well.[5][A 2]
The second outbreak
About five years later, in the winter of 1731, a new epidemic occurred, with more than ten people
dying within several weeks, some of them in just two or three days without any previous illness and
others after 3 days of languishing. The numbers and the age of the deceased vary somewhat between
the two main sources.
Glaser's report on the case states that by 12 December, 13 people had died in the course of six weeks.
Glaser names the following victims (here rearranged chronologically): Miliza (Serbian Milica, a 50-
year-old woman); Milloi (Serbian Miloje, a 14-year-old boy); Joachim (a 15-year-old boy); Peter
(Serbian Petar, a 15-day-old boy); Stanno (Serbian Stana, a 20-year-old woman) as well as her
newborn child, which Glaser notes was buried "behind a fence, where the mother had lived" due to
not having lived long enough to be baptized; Wutschiza (Serbian Vuica, a nine-year-old boy),
Milosova (Serbian Milosava, a 30-year-old wife of a hajduk), Radi (Serbian Rade, a 24-year-old
man), and Ruschiza (Serbian Ruica, a 40-year-old woman). The sick had complained of stabs in the
sides and pain in the chest, prolonged fever and jerks of the limbs. Glaser reports that the locals
considered Milica and Stana to have started the vampirism epidemic. According to his retelling,
Milica had come to the village from Ottoman-controlled territories six years before. The locals'
testimony indicated that she had always been a good neighbour and that, to the best of their
knowledge, she had never "believed or practiced something diabolic". However, she had once
mentioned to them that, while still in Ottoman lands, she had eaten two sheep that had been killed by
vampires. Stana, on the other hand, had admitted that when she was in Ottoman-controlled lands, she
had smeared herself with vampire blood as a protection against vampires (as these had been very
active there). According to local belief, both things would cause the women to become vampires after
death.
According to Flckinger's report, by the 7th of January, 17 people had died within a period of three
months (the last two of these apparently after Glaser's visit). He mentions Miliza (Milica, a 69-year-
old woman, died after a three-month illness); an unnamed 8 year-old child; Milloe (Miloje, a 16-year-
old boy, died after a three-day illness); Stana (a 20-year-old woman, died in childbirth after a three-
day illness, reportedly said that she had smeared herself with vampire blood) as well as her stillborn
child (as Flckinger observes, "half-eaten by the dogs due to a slovenly burial"); an unnamed 10-
year-old girl; Joachim (a 17-year-old, died after a three-day illness); the hadnack 's unnamed wife;
Ruscha (Rua variant of Ruica a woman, died after a ten-day illness); Staniko (Stanjko, a 60-
year-old man); Miloe (Miloje, the second victim of that name; a 25-year-old man); Rua's child (18
days old); Rhade (Rade, a 21-year-old servant of the local hajduk corporal, died after a three-month-
long illness); the local standard-bearer's (bajraktar 's) unnamed wife, apparently identical to Miloova
in the other report along with her child; the eight week-old child of the hadnack; Stanoicka (Stanojka,
a 20-year-old woman, the wife of a hajduk, died after a three-day illness). According to her father-in-
law Joviza (Jovica), Stanojka had gone to bed healthy 15 days previous, but had woken up at midnight
in terrible fear and cried that she had been throttled by the late Miloje. Flckinger states that the locals
explain the new epidemic with the fact that Milica, the first to die, had eaten the meat of sheep that
the "previous vampires" (i.e. Paole and his victims from five years prior) had killed. He also mentions,
in passing, the claims that Stana, before her death, had admitted having smeared herself with blood
to protect herself from vampires and would therefore become a vampire herself, as would her child.
According to Augustin Calmet's analysis of the case, "a girl named Stanoska, daughter of the Heyducq
Jotiutzo, who went to bed in perfect health, awoke in the middle of the night in a tremble, uttering
terrible shrieks, and saying that the son of Heyducq Millo who had been dead nine weeks, had nearly
strangled her in her sleep. She fell into a languid state from that moment, and at the end of three days
she died. What this girl had said of Millo's son made him known at once to be a vampire: he was
exhumed and found to be such. The principle people of the place, with the doctors and surgeons,
examined how vampirism could have sprung up again after the precautions they had taken years
before."[A 3]
The investigation
The villagers complained of the new deaths to oberstleutnant Schnezzer, the Austrian military
commander in charge of the administration. The latter, fearing an epidemic of pestilence, sent for
Imperial Contagions-Medicus (roughly, Infectious Disease Specialist) Glaser stationed in the nearby
town of Parain. On 12 December 1731, Glaser examined the villagers and their houses. He failed to
find any signs of a contagious malady and blamed the deaths on the malnutrition common in the
region as well as the unhealthy effects of the severe Eastern Orthodox fasting. However, the villagers
insisted that the illnesses were caused by vampires. At the moment, two or three households were
gathering together at night, with some asleep and others on the watch. They were convinced that the
deaths wouldn't stop unless the vampires were executed by the authorities, and threatened to abandon
the village in order to save their lives if that wasn't done. Failing Glaser consented to the exhumation
of some of the deceased. To his surprise, he found that most of them were not decomposed and many
were swollen and had blood in their mouths, while several others who had died more recently (namely
Vuica, Miloova, and Rade) were rather decomposed. Glaser outlined his findings in a report to
the Jagodina commandant's office, recommending that the authorities should pacify the population
by fulfilling its request to "execute" the vampires. Schnezzer furthered Glaser's report to the Supreme
Command in Belgrade (the city was then held by Austrian forces). The vice-commandant, Botta
d'Adorno, sent a second commission to investigate the case.
The new commission included a military surgeon, Johann Flckinger, two officers, lieutenant colonel
Bttner and J. H. von Lindenfels, along with two other military surgeons, Siegele and Johann
Friedrich Baumgarten. On the 7th of January, together with the village elders and some local Gypsies,
they opened the graves of the deceased. Their findings were similar to Glaser's, although their report
contains much more anatomical detail. The commission established that, while five of the corpses
(the hadnack 's wife and child, Rade, and the standard-bearer's wife and child) were decomposed, the
remaining twelve were "quite complete and undecayed" and exhibited the traits that were commonly
associated with vampirism. Their chests and in some cases other organs were filled with fresh (rather
than coagulated) blood; the viscera were estimated to be "in good condition"; various corpses looked
plump and their skin had a "red and vivid" (rather than pale) colour; and in several cases, "the skin
on ... hands and feet, along with the old nails, fell away on their own, but on the other hand completely
new nails were evident, along with a fresh and vivid skin". In the case of Milica, the hajduks who
witnessed the dissection were very surprised at her plumpness, stating that they had known her well,
from her youth, and that she had always been very "lean and dried-up"; it was only in the grave she
had attained this plumpness. The surgeons summarized all these phenomena by stating that the bodies
were in "vampiric condition" (Vampyrenstand). After the examination had been completed, the
Gypsies cut off the heads of the supposed vampires and burned both their heads and their bodies, the
ashes being thrown in the Morava river. The decomposed bodies were laid back into their graves. The
report is dated 26 January 1732, Belgrade, and bears the signatures of the five officers involved.
On the 13th of February, Glaser's father, Viennese doctor Johann Friedrich Glaser, who was also a
correspondent of the Nuremberg journal Commercium Litterarium, sent its editors a letter describing
the entire case as his son had written to him about it already on the 18th of January. The story aroused
great interest. After that, both reports (especially Flckinger's more detailed version) and the letter
were reprinted in a number of articles and treatises.
Calmet notes: "They discovered at last, after much search, that the defunct Arnold Paul had killed not
only the four persons of whom we have spoken, but also several oxen, of which the new vampires
had eaten, and amongst others the son of Millo. Upon these indications they resolved to disinter all
those who had died within a certain time, etc. Amongst forty, seventeen were found with all the most
evident signs of vampirism; so they transfixed their hearts and cut off their heads also, then cast their
ashes into the river. All the information and executions we have just mentioned were made judicial,
in proper form, and attested by several officers who were garrisoned in the country, by the chief
surgeons of the regiments, and by the principal inhabitants of the place. The verbal process of it was
sent towards the end of last January to the Imperial Counsel of War at Vienna, which had established
a military commission to examine into the truth of all these circumstances. Such was the declaration
of the Hadnagi Barriarar and the ancient Heyducqs; and it was signed by Battuer, first lieutenant of
the regiment of Alexander of Wurtemburg, Clickstenger, surgeon-in-chief of the regiment of
Frustemburch, three other surgeons of the company and Guoichitz, captain at Stallach."[A 4]
See also
Petar Blagojevich
Mercy Brown vampire incident
Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
Notes
1. Djordjevic, Tihomir (1953). Vampir i druga bica u nasem narodnom verovanju i
predanju. Belgrade: SAN. p. 7.
2. Dragoljub Pavlovic, Austrijska vladavina u severnoj Srbiji (1718-1739), Drzavna
stamparija Kraljevine Srbije, Beograd 1901, pages 162-164
 3. Pavlovic, Dragoljub (1901). Austrijska vladavina u severnoj Srbiji (1718-1739).
Beograd: Drzavna stamparija Kraljevine Srbije. pp. 162164.
4. Adam, Stosic (1996). Pod nebom Krusevca. Beograd: Prosveta.
5. Jn, A. Asbjrn (2003). "Vampire Evolution". mETAphor (3): 20. Retrieved 25
November 2015.
6. "Glaser's report in the original German". Retrieved 2006-06-13.
7. "A translation of Flckinger's report". Archived from the original on 2006-03-15.
Retrieved 2006-07-06.
8. "Flckinger's report in the original German". Retrieved 2006-06-13.
9. Jn, A. Asbjrn (2001). "From Nosteratu to Von Carstein: shifts in the portrayal of
vampires". Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies. University of
New England. 16: 97106. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
Calmet, Augustin (1751). Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or
Revenants: of Hungary, Moravia, et al. The Complete Volumes I & II. 2015. ISBN 1-5331-
4568-7.
1. p. 333-334.
2. p. 334.
3. p. 334.
4. p. 334-335.
Sources
Glaser's report in the original German
Johann Friedrich Glaser's letter to the editors of Commercium Litterarium (also in German)
Flckinger's report in the original German
Nowosadtko, Jutta. 2004. Der "Vampyrus Serviensis" und sein Habitat: Impressionen von der
sterreichischen Militrgrnze. In: Militr und Gesellschaft in der Frhen Neuzeit. 8 (2004).
Heft 2. Universittsverlag Potsdam. [1]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arnold_Paole&oldid=750794741"

Petar Blagojevich
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petar Blagojevich (Serbian form: Petar Blagojevi/ , German : Peter Plogojovitz;
died 1725) was a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and to
have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was one of the earliest, most sensational and most
well documented cases of vampire hysteria. It was described in the report of Imperial Provisor
Frombald, an official of the Austrian administration, who witnessed the staking of Blagojevich.[1]
Scholars have noted the influence of Blagojevich's case upon the development of the image of the
modern vampire in Western popular culture.[1][2]
Contents
[hide]
1The case
1.1Commentary
2"Kisiljevo revisited"
3See also
4Sources
5References
The case
Petar Blagojevich lived in a village named Kisilova (possibly the modern-day town of Kisiljevo), in
the part of Serbia that temporarily passed from Ottoman into Austrian hands after the Treaty of
Passarowitz (1718) and was ceded back to the Ottomans with the Treaty of Belgrade (1739)
(see Arnold Paole - Background for more details on the historical context). Blagojevich died in 1725,
and his death was followed by a spate of other sudden deaths (after very short maladies, reportedly
of about 24 hours each). Within eight days, nine persons perished. On their death-beds, the victims
allegedly claimed to have been throttled by Blagojevich at night. Furthermore, Blagojevich's wife
stated that he had visited her and asked her for his opanci (shoes); she then moved to another village
for safety reasons. In other legends, it is said that Blagojevich came back to his house demanding
food from his son and, when the son refused, Blagojevich brutally murdered him, probably via biting
and drinking his blood. The villagers decided to disinter the body and examine it for signs of
vampirism, such as growing hair, beard and nails, and the absence of decomposition.
The inhabitants of Kisilova demanded that Kameralprovisor Frombald, along with the local priest,
should be present at the procedure as a representative of the administration. Frombald tried to
convince them that permission from the Austrian authorities in Belgrade should be sought first. The
locals declined because they feared that by the time the permission came, the whole community could
be exterminated by the vampire, which they claimed had already happened "in Turkish times" (i.e.
when the village was still in the Ottoman-controlled part of Serbia). They demanded that Frombald
himself should immediately permit the procedure or else they would abandon the village to save their
lives. Frombald was forced to consent.
Together with the Veliko Gradite priest, he viewed the already exhumed body and was astonished
to find that the characteristics associated with vampires in local belief were indeed present. The body
was undecomposed, the hair and beard were grown, there were "new skin and nails" (while the old
ones had peeled away), and blood could be seen in the mouth.[1] After that, the people, who "grew
more outraged than distressed", proceeded to stake the body through the heart, which caused a great
amount of "completely fresh" blood to flow through the ears and mouth of the corpse. Finally, the
body was burned. Frombald concludes his report on the case with the request that, in case these
actions were found to be wrong, he should not be blamed for them, as the villagers were "beside
themselves with fear". The authorities apparently did not consider it necessary to take any measures
regarding the incident.
The report on this event was among the first documented testimonies about vampire beliefs in Eastern
Europe. It was published by Wienerisches Diarium, a Viennese newspaper, today known
as Die Wiener Zeitung. Along with the report of the very similar Arnold Paole case of 1726-1732, it
was widely translated West and North, contributing to the vampire craze of the eighteenth century
in Germany, France and England. The strange phenomena or appearances that the Austrian officials
witnessed are now known to accompany the natural process of the decomposition of the body.[3]
Commentary
In De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis (1725), Michal Ranft attempted to explain folk beliefs in
vampires.[4] He writes that, in the event of the death of every villager, some other person or people
most likely a person related to the first deadwho saw or touched the corpse, would eventually die
either of some disease related to exposure to the corpse or of a frenetic delirium caused by the panic
of merely seeing the corpse. These dying people would say that the dead man had appeared to them
and tortured them in many ways. The other people in the village would exhume the corpse to see what
it had been doing. He gives the following explanation when talking about the case of Petar
Blagojevich:
This brave man perished by a sudden or violent death. This death, whatever it is, can provoke in the
survivors the visions they had after his death. Sudden death gives rise to inquietude in the familiar
circle. Inquietude has sorrow as a companion. Sorrow brings melancholy. Melancholy engenders
restless nights and tormenting dreams. These dreams enfeeble body and spirit until illness overcomes
and, eventually, death.
"Kisiljevo revisited"
Recently, the story has sparked some interest in the village of Kisiljevo among some Serbian
journalists. According to Belgrade newspaper Glas javnosti, which cites local official Bogii, the
villagers are unable to identify Blagojevich's grave and don't know whether the local family that bears
that surname is related to him. One person recalled stories of a certain female vampire by the name
of Rua Vlajna, who was believed to haunt the village in more recent times, in the lifetime of her
grandfather. She would make her presence felt by hitting pots hanging from roofs and was seen
walking on the surface of the Danube, but it is unknown whether she was ever staked.[5]
See also
Arnold Paole
Michael Ranft
Treatise on the apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
Mercy Brown vampire incident
Sources
Bunson, Matthew (1993). The Vampire Encyclopedia. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-
500-27748-6.
Frombald (1725). Copia eines Schreibens aus dem Gradisker District in Ungarn. (the original
report in German), Kayserliche Hof-Buchdruckerey (a private english translation of the
report)
Nowosadtko, Jutta (2004). Der "Vampyrus Serviensis" und sein Habitat: Impressionen von
der sterreichischen Militrgrnze. In: Militr und Gesellschaft in der Frhen Neuzeit. 8
(2004). Heft 2. Universittsverlag Potsdam. [1]
Ranft, Michael (1728). De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis (aka De la mastication des
morts dans leurs tombeaux or Tractat von dem Kauen und Schmatzen der Todten in Grbern),
Leipzig: Teubners' Buchladen
Ruickbie, Leo, 'Vampire Autopsies', Fortean Times, 288 (Special Issue, 2012), 44-8
Summers, Montague (2003). The Vampire in Europe 1929. Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN
0-7661-3576-4
References
1. Jn, A. Asbjrn (2003). "Vampire Evolution". mETAphor (3): 20. Retrieved 26
November 2015.
2. Jn, A. Asbjrn (2001). "From Nosteratu to Von Carstein: shifts in the portrayal of
vampires". Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies. University of
New England (16): 97106. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
3. Ruickbie, Leo, 'Vampire Autopsies', Fortean Times, 288 (Special Issue, 2012), 44-8.
4. Bunson, Vampire Encyclopedia, p. 63.
5. Pera svrgnuo Savu Savanovia. By Duanka Novkovi Glas javnosti 26-04-2006.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petar_Blagojevich&oldid=750684433"

Visum et Repertum (1732)

http://thevampireproject.blogspot.rs/2008/11/arnold-paole-visum-et-repertum.html

"Visum et Repertum - (Seen and Discovered) Written by Johann Flckinger (1732). This writing was
based on perhaps, one of the most famous vampires in history, Arnold Paole(Paul). The case of
Arnold Paole took place in the Serbian village of Meduegna in 1727-1728, following a second
epidemic near Belgrade in 1732. When reports of this epidemic reached Vienna, the Austrian
Emperor ordered a inquiry to be conducted by Regimental Field Surgeon Johannes Flckinger.
Flckinger wrote a full report on his investigation and presented it to the Emperor. Shortly thereafeter,
Flckinger's report was published and became a best seller. By March of 1732, the accounts of the
vampire activities reached the periodicals of England and France. Due to it's in depth documentation,
this writing became the future center of studies and molded many views on vampire beliefs. It also
had much influence with two catholic scholars, Dom Augustin Calmet and Giuseppe Davanzati, who
prepared books on vampirism in the middle of the century.
Five years after the death of Arnod Paole, seventeen people died in under three months from alleged
vampire attacks in the same village and, on December 12th 1731, the Austrian Emperor ordered that
an inquiry should be carried out by Regimental Field Surgeon Johannes Fluckinger.
It is difficult to discount this report signed by no less than five Officers in the army of Charles VI,
Emperor of Austria as three of them were doctors and they all would have been extremely familiar
with corpses, having served in the army that had fought and defeated the Turks between 1714 and
1718. We must remember, however, that the details pertaining to Arnod Paole in this account are
secondhand: as this report was written five years after his death following investigation of this fresh
outbreak of vampirism in Medvegia. It was supposed that Paole were the original cause of these later
events as it was said that he had fed from animals as well as humans:
"Visum et Repertum 1732" (Seen and Discovered)
"After it had been reported that in the village of Medvegia the so-called vampires had killed some
people by sucking their blood, I was, by high degree of a local Honorable Supreme Command, sent
there to investigate the matter thoroughly along with officers detailed for that purpose and two
subordinate medical officers, and therefore carried out and heard the present inquiry in the company
of the captain of the Stallath Company of haiduks (a type of soldier), Gorschiz Hadnack, the standard-
bearer and the oldest haiduk of the village, as follows: who unanimously recounted that about five
years ago a local haiduk by the name of Arnold Paole broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. This
man had during his lifetime often revealed that, near Gossowa in Turkish Serbia, he had been troubled
by a vampire, wherefore he had eaten from the earth of the vampire's grave and had smeared himself
with the vampire's blood, in order to be free from the vexation he had suffered. In 20 or 30 days after
his death some people complained that they were being bothered by this same Arnod Paole; and in
fact four people were killed by him.
"In order to end this evil, they dug up this Arnold Paole 40 days after his death - this on the advice of
Hadnack, who had been present at such events before; and they found that he was quite complete and
undecayed, and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the
covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with
the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown; and since they saw from this that he was a true
vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, according to their custom, whereby he gave an audible
groan and bled copiously.
"Thereupon they burned the body the same day to ashes and threw these into the grave. These people
say further that all those who were tormented and killed by the vampire must themselves become
vampires. Therefore they disinterred the above-mentioned four people in the same way. Then they
also add that this Arnod Paole attacked not only the people but also the cattle, and sucked out their
blood. And since the people used the flesh of such cattle, it appears that some vampires are again
present here, inasmuch as, in a period of three months, 17 young and old people died, among them
some who, with no previous illness, died in two or at the most three days. In addition, the haiduk
Jowiza reports that his step-daughter, by name of Stanacka, lay down to sleep 15 days ago, fresh and
healthy, but at midnight she started up out of her sleep with a terrible cry, fearful and trembling, and
complained that she had been throttled by the son of a haiduk by the name of Milloe, who had died
nine weeks earlier, whereupon she had experienced a great pain in the chest and became worse hour
by hour, until finally she died on the third day.
"At this we went the same afternoon to the graveyard, along with the often-mentioned oldest haiduks
of the village, in order to cause the suspicious graves to be opened and to examine the bodies in them,
whereby, after all of them had been dissected, there was found:
"1. A woman by the name of Stana, 20 years old, who had died in childbirth two months ago, after a
three-day illness, and who had herself said, before her death, that she had painted herself with the
blood of a vampire, wherefore both she and her child - which had died right after birth and because
of a careless burial had been half eaten by the dogs- must also become vampires. She was quite
complete and undecayed. After the opening of the body there was found in the cavitate pectoris a
quantity of fresh extravascular blood. The vessels of the arteries and veins, like the ventriculis ortis,
were not, as is usual, filled with coagulated blood, and the whole viscera, that is, the lung, liver,
stomach, spleen, and intestines were quite fresh as they would be in a healthy person. The uterus was
however quite enlarged and very inflamed externally, for the placenta and lochia had remained in
place, wherefore the same was in complete putredine. The skin on her hands and feet, along with the
old nails, fell away on their own, but on the other hand completely new nails were evident, along with
a fresh and vivid skin.
"2. There was a woman by the name of Miliza (60 years old), who had died after a three-month
sickness and had been buried 90-some days earlier. In the chest much liquid blood was found; and
the other viscera were, like those mentioned before, in a good condition. During her dissection, all
the haiduks who were standing around marveled greatly at her plumpness and perfect body, uniformly
stating that they had known the woman well, from her youth, and that she had; throughout her life,
looked and been very lean and dried up, and they emphasized that she had come to this surprising
plumpness in the grave. They also said that it was she who started the vampires this time, because
she had eaten of the flesh of those sheep that had been killed by the previous vampires.
"3. There was an eight-day-old child which had lain in the grave for 90 days and was similarly in a
condition of vampirism.
"4. The son of a haiduk, 16 years old, was dug up, having lain in the earth for nine weeks, after he
had died from a three-day illness, and was found like the other vampires.
"5. Joachim, also the son of a haiduk, 17 years old; had died after a three-day illness. He had been
buried eight weeks and four days and, on being dissected; was found in similar condition.
"6. A woman by the name of Ruscha who had died after a ten-day illness and had been buried six
weeks previous, in whom there was much fresh blood not only in the chest but also in fundo ventriculi.
The same showed itself in her child, which was 18 days old and had died five weeks previously.
"7. No less did a girl ten years of age, who had died two months previously, find herself in the above-
mentioned condition, quite complete and undecayed; and had much fresh blood in her chest.
"8. They caused the wife of the Hadnack to be dug up, along with her child. She had died seven weeks
previously, her child - who was eight weeks old- 21 days previously, and it was found that both
mother and child were completely decomposed, although earth and grave were like those of the
vampires lying nearby.
"9. A servant of the local corporal of the haiduks, by the name of Rhade, 21 years old, died after a
three-month-long illness, and after a five week burial was found completely decomposed.
"10. The wife of the local bariactar, along with her child, having died five weeks previously, were
also completely decomposed.
"11. With Stanche, a local haiduk, 60 years old; who had died six weeks previously, I noticed a
profuse liquid blood, like the others, in the chest and stomach. The entire body was in the oft-named
condition of vampirism.
"12. Milloe, a haiduk, 25 years old; who had lain for six weeks in the earth, also was found in the
condition of vampirism mentioned.
"13. Stanoika, the wife of a haiduk, 20 years old, died after a three-day illness and had been buried
18 days previously. In the dissection I found that she was in her countenance quite red and of a vivid
color, and, as was mentioned above, she had been throttled, at midnight, by Milloe, the son of the
haiduk, and there was also to be seen, on the right side under the ear, a bloodshot blue mark, the
length of a finger. As she was being taken out of the grave, a quantity of fresh blood flowed from her
nose. With the dissection I found; as mentioned often already, a regular fragrant fresh bleeding, not
only in the chest cavity, but also in ventriculo cordis. All the viscera found themselves in a completely
good and healthy condition. The hypodermis of the entire body, along with the fresh nails of hands
and feet, was as though completely fresh.
"After the examination had taken place, the heads of the vampires were cut off by the local gypsies
and burned along with the bodies, and then the ashes were thrown into the river Morava. The
decomposed bodies, however, were laid back into their own graves. Which I attest along with those
assistant medical officers provided for me. Actum ut supra:
"L.S. Johannes Fluchinger, Regimental Medical Officer of the Foot Regiment of the Honorable B.
Furstenbusch.
"L.S. J.H. Siegel, Medical Officer of the Honorable Morall Regiment.
"L.S. Johann Friedrich Baumgarten, Medical Officer of the Foot Regiment of the Honorable B.
Furstenbusch.
"The undersigned attest herewith that all which the Regimental Medical Officer of the Foot Regiment
of the Honorable B. Furstenbusch has observed in the matter of vampires - along with both medical
officers who signed with him - is in every way truthful and has been undertaken, observed, and
examined in our own presence. In confirmation thereof is our signature in our own hand, of our
making, Belgrade, January 26, 1732.
"L.S. Buttener, Leieutenant Colonel of the Honorable Alexandrian Regiment.
"L.S. J.H. von Lindenfels, Officer of the Honorable Alexandrian Regiment."