A Note on Vampires by Jessie Adelaide Middleton (c) http:www.horrormasters.com by http://www.horrormasters.com/

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The man whose case was related to me heard horrible sounds of laughter round his death-bed,

which he affirmed on oath to a priest came from five women with protruding teeth, very red lips and high colours, who were standing round his death-bed with hands outstretched towards him.

He practised vampirism before and after death, and his body, even after a number of years, failed to decay. It was eventually rendered harmless by the usual methods of garlic and stake. His

confession to the priest of the Order of Cicestrians is carefully preserved among the Cicestrian Records at Palermo.

At one period vampirism spread through Servia and Wallacia like a pestilence, and in the east

of Europe it is still strongly believed in. There is the well-known case of Arnod Paola, who lived at Meducgna, near Belgrade, in the early part of the eighteenth century, whose grave was

publicly opened in the cemetery of Meducgna when, to the horror of the spectators, the lips were found to be covered with fresh blood. The body was taken out and burnt to ashes.

Another case, mentioned by Erasmus Francisci, is of a man named Grando, who lived in the

district of Kring, and being believed to be vampirish was exhumed.

“When they opened his grave,” says Francisci, “after he had been long buried, his face was

found with a colour and his features made natural sorts of movements as if the dead man smiled.

He even opened his mouth as if he would inhale fresh air. They held the crucifix before him and called in a loud voice, ‘See! this is Jesus Christ who redeemed your soul from hell and died for you.’ After the sound had acted on his organs of hearing and he had connected, perhaps, some

ideas from it, tears began to flow from the dead man’s eyes. Finally, when, after a short prayer, they proceeded to hack off his head, the corpse uttered a screech and turned and rolled just as if he had been alive—and the grave was full of blood.”

Although some medical authorities endeavour to account for the numerous cases of vampirism

on record by the explanation that the bodies have been buried alive while in a state of catalepsy or suspended animation, it is somewhat disquieting to turn to a document signed by three

surgeons, one lieutenant-colonel and one sub-lieutenant, dated June 7, 1732, of undoubted

veracity. This document is the medical report on the opening of the graves of those suspected of vampirism in the cemetery of Meducgna, near Belgrade. It gives details of thirteen cases of

exhumation of bodies all in the vampire condition, of which the following is typical— A woman

of the name of Miliza, who had died at the end of a three months’ illness. The body had been

buried ninety and odd days. In the chest was liquid blood. The body was declared by the

Heydukes, who recognized it, to be in better condition and fatter than it had been in the woman’s legitimate lifetime.

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