Petar Blagojević / Peter Plogojowitz — the case that put the word VAMPIRE into European newspapers (1725, NOT Transylvania)

People always credit Romania but the first big documented vampire panic that hit Western media was Serbian, village of Kisilova (today Kisiljevo) under Austrian occupation. 1725. A peasant named Petar Blagojević died, and over the next week NINE people died after short illnesses, and several swore o……