| The vampire origin was mainly associated with the | | | | objective was to frighten the people, which led to |
| Hungarian Kingdom because most of the popular | | | | panic and series of investigations. The testimonies of |
| cases of vampirism that occurred during the 18th | | | | the witnesses made the town officials decide to |
| century happened near the territory of the Hungarian | | | | destroy the merchant's corpse despite the wife's |
| Kingdom. In 1706, Karl Ferdinand Scherz wrote and | | | | resistance. The first attempts proved to be |
| published the widely read De magia postuma book | | | | unsuccessful. However, in the end of the story, the |
| about vampires that accurately described the | | | | town people successfully burned the corpse. In 1720, |
| Moravian-Hungarian border several vampire cases. In | | | | the reports of the vampire epidemic spread across |
| 1707, the Ruzomberok studied and made a lengthy | | | | the areas of north Hungary and Transylvania. |
| discussion about the exhuming, beheading, and then | | | | In 1730, a peasant soldier complained of a Turkish |
| burning of corpses practices. In 1709, the Hungarian | | | | vampire tormenting him. He lived in the village of |
| doctor Samuel Koleseri gave a shocking account | | | | Medvegia near Belgrade. He attempted to treat his |
| about a certain illness that plagues Transylvania. The | | | | illness but instead died from an accident. He then |
| shocking story narrated of several corpses dug up | | | | became a vampire. The people exhumed the |
| by the community and then either beheaded or | | | | suspected corpse of Arnold Paul, the soldier, forty |
| pierced by a pole. The community believed that the | | | | days after his death. The people found blood in his |
| corpses were responsible for the spread of the | | | | veins, which made them decide to destroy his corpse |
| deadly plague. | | | | by a pole. The people heard and saw Paul gave a |
| In 1718, the strangest story of Kaszparek shocked | | | | terrifying shriek when they pierced him with a pole. |
| the town of Lublo, which was located on the | | | | The people heard other witnesses accounted the |
| Hungarian-Polish border. Kaszparek, a merchant, stole | | | | same vampire epidemic cases from the same place |
| his Polish customer's fortune. The story narrated that | | | | and from the same relevant period. In 1740's, |
| he died shortly after the incident and then came back | | | | vampire cases from Transylvania, Moravia, and Serbia |
| from the grave to unite with his wife. The other | | | | continued to draw public interest. |