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You will find this case mentioned in Robert Laffont`s “Le Vampirisme – de la légende au réel” [Vampirism – from legend to reality]. The author gives the account of a young man by the name of Nicholas C.
The date we are given, 1911, is the year that Nicholas had finished his studies and gone for a vacation over at his relatives, in a small village in Ukraine. Sadly we aren`t given any more info on the location and you will agree with me when I say that it`s a large country.
Upon arrival in the village, the student observed a general state of excitement and when he asked what the main event was, his relatives told him that only a few days earlier they had destroyed a vampire.
During the last couple of weeks several young girls had been experiencing all kinds of trouble during the night and complained about an invisible creature that would lay on top of them so that they could not breathe. It was feared that they could have died of suffocation.
Some of them said that they had seen a couple of small lights that looked a bit like eyes.
And when they woke up in the morning they all found that they had strange blue marks on their necks.
Having decided that the girls could only be the victims of a vampire, the villagers struggled with finding a way to “execute” the undead – the mutilation of corpses was a crime punishable by law – so it took some time before they could act.
Conveniently enough it seamed that the local policeman had to go away for a couple of days [in those times some investigations required people to travel from one village to another just in order to get all the facts together so they could compare the crimes].
This provided them with a perfect window of opportunity.
No sooner had they left the village, or half the population rushed to the churchyard. People started running around, looking for suspect graves.
They soon decided that the most promising one would be the grave of an old sorcerer who had died about a month before.
The grave was opened, the lid was torn off the coffin, and the corpse was found to look much too healthy. The dead man’s eyes, which had been closed after his death, were now open wide. The clean white shroud that had been put around him was now covered in blood.
There could be no doubt that the dead man was a vampire!
The villagers hammered a wooden stake through the heart of the undead and cremated the body. The glowing ashes were thrown into the grave and then covered up with dirt. After these measures, the mysterious nocturnal phenomena ceased completely.

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In July 1732, Jozsef Faredi-Tamarzski, under orders from the Prince of Wurtemberg, was sent to the village of Radojevo to investigate the death of 11 villagers, who had all died in January and February of that year.
Radojevo is in Serbia close to the border with Romania and the man was dispatched to that isolated part of the empire because, according to the people of Radojevo, they were the victims of a vampire called Miloch.
During his life, this Miloch had the reputation of being some sort of a sorcerer. The fact that he kept a bird which he had learned to talk, plus the fact that he had captured and tamed a wild wolf, which he then kept as a pet, seemed to confirm his magic powers.
Faredi-Tamarzski made an attempt to convince the villagers that vampires did not exist but after several discussions he came to the conclusion that they were not going to listen to his arguments.
He therefore decided to exhume a few of the corpses. They started by digging up Miloch, who had been buried some 15 months ago [so he had died in early 1731].
When they had removed the earth and lifted up the wooden board that covered the dead man, Miloch’s corpse looked completely intact. But his eyes were wide open now, despite the fact that his widow had closed them after his death.
A slow but steady trickle of blood was coming from his mouth. Blood was also found on the wooden board beneath the corpse, and likewise on the earth beneath that.
Because the villagers insisted on it, Faredi-Tamarzski ordered the corpse to be staked.
By interrogating the relatives of the 11 victims, the doctor learned that most of them had died in 6 to 10 days by simply wasting away. During the night they had horrible nightmares and a couple of them had two bluish marks on their neck.

So Faredi-Tamarzski decided to also open up the graves of the victims.
Eight of them looked like decent corpses that were properly decomposing.
Two of them looked well preserved, though the arm and legs were stiff and could not be moved.
And the last one, a woman, looked as if she was only sleeping. Her members were perfectly flexible.
Faredi-Tamarzski declares that those three looked suspicious enough to him, so he permitted the villagers to give them the same treatment as the first vampire.
Despite these measures, the villagers were still of the opinion that the vampires should be cremated.

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