Peter Plogojowitz

Male, Deceased Person

– 1725

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Who was Peter Plogojowitz?

Petar Blagojevic 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 Plogojowitz.

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Died
1725
Požarevac

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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