Kringa

Istrien · Kroatia · Haunted site

The peasant Jure Grando died in Kringa in 1656, but according to the villagers he immediately began to walk again as a štrigon. At night he knocked on doors around the village, and in whichever house he knocked, someone soon died; he visited his widow in her bedchamber. After sixteen years of terror the villagers opened the grave in 1672 and found the body untouched, a smile on its lips. When a hawthorn stake failed to pierce the corpse, one of the men sawed off its head – only then did the village find peace. The story was recorded in 1689 by Johann Weikhard Valvasor and counts as Europe's first documented vampire case with a full name.

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Hvor ligger Kringa?

Kringa ligger i Istrien, Kroatia.

Opplysningene bygger på lokal folketro og vitneskildringer.

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