The Vlasenica vampire incident is mentioned in a couple of local records and was thus picked up in the feverish decades of “vampire craze” that followed the publishing of “Dracula”. Vlasenica is a town in the Serbian part of Bosnia Herzegovina, situated somewhere between Sarajevo and Zvornik.
A young man died in 1906.
Shortly after, his wife got ill as well. She insisted that her dead husband had visited her during the night to drink her blood.
He had become a Lampir (obv. it is the regional word for Vampire) so the terrified neighbors asked permission to dig up the dead man in order to decapitate and cremate him.
Their request was turned down by the authorities and the panic continued in the village. The vampire of Vlasenica made a total of 15 victims before he was eventually dug up and dispensed with in the usual / ritualistic way.
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