![]() ![]() ![]() Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, to which he reacted by groaning and bleeding, and burned the body. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Ten days later, villagers, advised by their hadnack (a military/administrative title) who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. These people all died shortly thereafter. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four persons complained that they had been plagued by him. About 1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. He reportedly often mentioned that he had been plagued by a vampire at a location named Gossowa (perhaps Kosovo), but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. Arnold Paole: "Arnold Paole was a hajduk who had moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. ![]()
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