The case of a Serbian vampire that was exhumed three times was written
in the book of Alan Dundes, “The Vampire-A casebook” which was published on
1998. Milos Rakovic, the suspected Serbian
vampire who died of a sudden death.
By August of 1836, the villagers started to speculate that Milos Rakovic
is a vampire. They stormed the cemetery
and exhumed the body without the authorization of the church. The villagers decided not to get the approval
of the authorities and the church since they will disapprove the exhumation
anyway. On the first time they
unearthed the corpse, they examined it with any manifestation of vampire. They quickly reburied it after that.
Jovan Obrenovic told her younger brother named Prince Milos Obrenovic
(he was the prince during the Takovo uprising) that the villagers are
suspecting that Milos Rakovic who died on the feast is a vampire and that the
villagers already exhumed the body without a prior notice of the church. Jovan and his brother went to the church. When
the news about the suspected vampire reached the church, the priest ordered the
villagers to exhume the body for the second time. The priest examined the corpse and poured
holy water onto the remains of Milos Rakovic and buried it again. But that didn’t stop the vampire attacks on
the villagers. They decided to dig the
body again for the third time, open the casket and they shot it at point
blank. They dismember his parts of the
body and return it to the grave.
By that time, the churches have already implemented laws on exhuming the
body of a suspected vampire. But just
like the other parts of the world, Serbia has a strong belief on vampires that
time and anything that cannot be explained and causes a plague-like disease to
the town can be attributed to the vampire.
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