![]() ![]() While Grau's story might have been a way to drum up hype for his film, Eastern Europe has always been where the legends of vampires as we know them - the blood-drinking, nocturnal undead - have originated. A stake was driven through the corpse's heart before it was cremated. The next morning, they returned and found a healthy-looking man with teeth so long and pointy that he couldn't close his mouth. Locals exhumed his coffin and found it empty. A month later, a string of deaths occurred - and then witnesses reported seeing the farmer's father walking around. The farmer's father had died and was buried without receiving the holy sacraments. According to a 1921 article by Grau in Buhne und Film, partially reprinted by vampire research site, a Serbian farmer told the producer that his father had become a vampire. ![]()
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