A vampire. Croatia

In Croatia, on the Istrian Peninsula is a small sleepy coastal town Cringe. In our days it is a place for tourists with picturesque stone houses and blossoming gardens, but once upon a time there lived a creature at all suggestive supernatural horror.

Vampire story from Cringe apparently the first in Europe, the story really lived a man who was turned into a bloodthirsty monster and terrorized the whole neighborhood.

In the 16th and 17th centuries many of the inhabitants of Croatia were afraid of what was called a Strigoi (trigonom or strigun). This was considered a wizard or witch who at night prey on people and drink their blood. They especially loved the blood of widows and just the young and beautiful women. They could break into the house, but sometimes knocked on the door and if they fail to open, it was possible to avoid death.

One such Strigoi lived in kringa, which was then a village. At first he was just a man named Jure Grando, Alilovic or Jure Grando. He was born in 1579, and died of an unknown disease in 1656. He was buried at the local cemetery.

But soon the village there were rumors that at night in the streets the stranger who knocks at the door. Those who saw him said that he was very similar to the deceased Jure Grando. And soon the village became more frequent, strange sickness and death and people noticed that are sick and dying those in whose homes had knocked the deceased Grando.

Most went to the widow Grando. She said at night her dead husband repeatedly came to her house, pounced on her, beat, bite and brutally raped. The widow described the dead husband as a smiling and panting, as if he was always short of air.

For 16 years this creepy dead terrorized Cringe. The legends don't specify exactly how he drank the blood of the victims, drank it by parts or all at once. Everywhere just tells that the dead man was a vampire and most of all craved human blood.

Once this Strigoi encountered the local priest, father Georg, and he was personally convinced that people do not lie and the monster exists. After that the patience of local residents exhausted - it turns out the monster is not afraid, even of the priest! First hunt for the vampire declared a man by the name of Miho Radetic, he tracked him night and tried to stab the heart, a stake of hawthorn. However, a wooden stake just pierced his chest, as if it was their iron. Then the vampire ran away.

Then a group of people led by a priest Georg went to the cemetery and dug up the coffin Grando. When they opened it, inside I found absolutely not a decomposed body with pale skin. But on the face of Grando was a wide smile.

Father Georg said, "Look, Strigoi, Jesus saved us from Hell and died for us, but you Strigoi couldn't rest in peace" and then plunged into his chest count. However, this time the number was not able to pierce the chest of the vampire. Other people also began to stick the pins and knives into a vampire, but all to no avail.

The next day, father Georg decided to try to read the prayer, banishing evil demons, and then one of the men - of Stipan Milacic took a saw and sawed off the head of the corpse. Saw barely broke the skin of a vampire, like from the wound gushed crimson with fresh blood, and the vampire uttered a loud cry.

There was so much blood that it all flowed and flowed from the decapitated corpse while filled the coffin.

What did the head vampire in the legends is not specified, but after that he came no more at night to people even in these places no longer seen.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»