NAJSTARIJI EVROPSKI VAMPIR

Jure Grando je najstariji imenom i prezimenom dokumentirani evropski vampir. Objavljivanje zapisa o njegovom slučaju za nekoliko desetljeća prethodi vampirskoj epidemiji u Srbiji zbog koje je carica Marija Terezija tada čak osnovala vampirsku komisiju. Prepisivan u mnogim starim zbornicima strašnih priča, slučaj Jure Granda nadahnuo je pojavu vampirske književnosti u 19. stoljeću, od novele Vampir Johna Polidorija (1819.), preko najpoznatijeg vampirskog romana, Drakule Brama Stokera (1897.) dve do današnjih dana kada Jure Grando postaje junak već desetak novih knjiga, a uskoro bi se trebao pojaviti i na filmu.

THE OLDEST EUROPEAN VAMPIRE

Jure Grando is the oldest European vampire identified with name and surname in documented records. The publication of documents on his case predates by several decades the vampire epidemic in Serbia when the empress Maria Theresa even set up a vampire commission. As Jure Grando's case was transcribed in many old anthologies of horror stories, it inspired the appearance of vampire literature in the nineteenth century, from John Polidori's novel The Vampyre (1819), followed by the most famous vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), to the present day when Jure Grando has already become the hero of a dozen new books and is soon to appear in a film.

LEGENDA O VAMPIRU IZ KRINGE

U jednoj mračnoj noći 1672. godine devetoro mještana Kringe, predvođeno seoskim poglavarom i svećenikom, zaputilo se na groblje odlučno da se obračuna s napašću koja je 16 godina terorizirala selo. Mještanin Jure Grando još otkad je umro 1656. godine bio je počeo svake noći ustajati iz groba, lutati mjestom, lupati na vrata kuća u kojima bi uskoro netko umro, te posjećivati i maltretirati svoju udovicu. Devetero je egzekutora otkopalo grob neumrlog noćnika i u njemu zateklo očuvano tijelo rumenih i nacerenih obraza. Nakon neuspješnog probadanja glogovim kolcem, vampiru je odrubljena glava, grob zatrpan i nakon toga Jure Grando više nikad nije uznemiravao mještane Kringe.

LEGEND OF THE VAMPIRE FROM KRINGA

One dark night in 1672 nine villagers of Kringa, led by the village headman and priest, went to the graveyard determined to fight the pest that has been terrorizing the village for 16 years. Since his death in 1656, the villager Jure Grando used to arise every night from his grave, roam the village, knock on the doors of houses where someone would die soon afterwards, as well as visit and harass his widow. Nine executioners dug up the grave of the undead night creature and found a preserved corpse with a red-cheeked and grinning face. After having unsuccessfully tried to pierce him with a hawthorn stake, the vampire's head was cut off, the grave was covered up and Jure Grando has not harmed the villagers of Kringa ever since.

JANEZ VAJKARD VALVASOR

Slučaj egzekucije vampira Jure Granda u Kringi prvi je opisao slovenski povjesničar i putopisac Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641.-1693.) u svojoj knjizi Slava vojvodine Kranjske (Die Ehre dess Herzogthums Crain), objavljene u Nurnbergu 1689. godine.

JANEZ VAJKARD VALVASOR

The case of decapitation of the vampire Jure Grando in Kringa was first described by the Slovenian historian and travel writer Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693) in his book The Glory of the Duchy of Carniiola (Die Ehre Dess Herzogthums Crain), that was published in Nurnberg in 1689.