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Kisiljevo Vampire Village
Kisiljevo is a tranquil village in eastern Serbia famous for recording one of the earliest official, medically documented vampire panics in world history. In July 1725, following the death of local peasant Petar Blagojević, nine villagers died after claiming on their deathbeds that Blagojević visited them in the night and squeezed their throats. An imperial Austrian military officer and an army surgeon conducted a formal exhumation, observing an undecayed corpse with fresh blood at the mouth. This official report coined and exported the Serbian word 'vampire' into Western European consciousness.