When thinking of vampires, we always tend to think of fictional vampires or the most famous historical "vampire", Vlad Tepes III or Vlad the Impaler .However, in the documentation of historical archives researchers have found curious and surprising stories about real vampires, cases of people who came back to life terrorizing their neighbors, attacking them and feeding on their blood.We tell you the story of 6 historical vampires who They'll give you the creeps.
6 historical vampires you don't know
1.The hunter priest of Melrose Abbey
The "Hunderprest" or priest hunter was the nickname given to a priest who professed in the Melrose Abbey in the twelfth century. This abbey was located in the borderlands of Scotland and the history of this priest are dated sometime around the year 1138.During his life, This priest was not a pious and kind person, receiving the nickname of "dog priest or hunter priest" for being the horse hunting with a jauria of dogs one of his favorite hobbies.When he died there were many cases that referred to how he appeared to the neighbors drank the blood of innocents and could turn into bats.
At first the monks of Melrose Abbey let him be in his environment, but when the priest began to request sex from his lover, the monks and priests They decided to end him.To that end, everyone together waited for him to leave his grave at midnight, struck him with an ax on his head, cremated him and threw his ashes, ending his cruel reign of terror.they point out that it still appears in the area.
2.Jure Grando
Jure Grando is another one of those historical vampires whose case is highlighted by the first in history in which the word "vampire" was officially applied to a person.This man was a peasant from Istria, Croatia, who died in 1656. The villagers in the area were terrified for 16 years after his death by this man, whom they called "strigon", the local name "vampire." According to the testimonies of the People gathered in the official documents of the time, Jure walked through the town at night and used to knock on the doors of some house.Unfortunately, in the house where he called, someone died.In addition, he used to return to his house to request sexual relations with his widow.
Full of terror and tired of the situation caused by this living dead, the villagers met with a priest and went out to meet him to face him.priest managed to corner him and make him run away to his grave with a cross.Some villagers chased him there, dug him up and beheaded him.Jure didn't bother them again.
3.Bathory, the bloody countess
Perhaps this is one of the best known vampire women in history and one of the most sinister, because while a historical character like Vlad was not a vampire, the legend of Elizabeth Bathory describes a character that can be considered a vampire, that is, a person who feeds on blood and conceived as a source of life and youth.Bathory was a 16th century Hungarian countess, a woman who enjoyed applying the cruelest tortures to the villagers who lived on their land.
Her fame as a vampire began when rumors broke out that used to bathe in the blood of young maidens .A practice that he carried out to stay young and that historians consider entering the field of legend.Anyway, Elizabeth Bathory was walled in her castle, leaving her locked up with enough space to breathe and feed herself.He died a few years later.
4.Peter Plogojowitz
Peter Plogojowitz lived in 18th-century Serbia and sowed terror for 10 weeks after his death.In that period of time 9 people of the town where he lived suddenly died.All of a strange disease and declaring before they died that they had sounded with Plogojowitz and how he was strangling them.His own son died of the same disease, having commented three days before he died as he had been visited by his dead father.His widow also noted that her dead husband had come to see her one night and I had asked for a pair of shoes.
It was such fear that the army was called, digging up the body of Plogojowitz.The surprise was capital when it was found that the dead man was breathing and had his eyes open. He stuck a stake in his heart and burned his body. After this intervention, the strange deaths and dreams ceased.
5.The vampires of New England
There are not many stories about historical vampires in America, but one of the most surprising is the discovery of a grave in Griswold, Connecticut in 1990.The grave contained the bodies of several 18th-century farmers.Nothing unusual, except that one of them had been beheaded and his skeleton reorganized forming the well-known Jolly Roger , that is, the skull crossed by two bones.A case that went beyond a robbery or a desecration.
In the same time there were also cases such as the one in the next city of Jewett, a town where 29 bodies were exhumed and burned or the case of the small Brown Merced .This girl was supposed to have died of tuberculosis although it was not so.After his death, the rest of the family of the little one began to get sick and die.Such was the magnitude of the case that the girl was unearthed.Merced's corpse was not corrupted and she was burned by suspecting she was a vampire.
6.The Croglin Grange Vampire
This spooky case took place in Cumbria, England, in the 19th century.It all started when the Cranwell family moved to Groglin Range .One night, Lady Cranwell he realized that there were strange lights in the garden of the house, some lights that were right in front of the window of his room and that led him to get up from his bed and approach them when he approached.They were not lights but two bright eyes.Panic press, Lady Cranwell barely had time to run away.A decomposing hand gripped her tightly and she could only scream.Her brothers came quickly to hear her scream and were horrified to see her in the ground and bleeding heavily from the neck.While entering the room of his herm ana, a cat-shaped figure escaped through the window.
A while after the attack, the brothers returned to the house and Lady Cranwell took up her room again to act as a lure to catch her attacker.the vampire tried to enter through the window, but the brothers armed with guns were waiting for him.They kept hurting him and the vampire escaped again, although this time the brothers followed him to the open crypt of the cemetery.Inside there was a rotten corpse.and with a recent gunshot wound.Following the established method, it was burned.
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