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TIL about Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was the earliest, documented cases of vampire hysteria.

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