Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare (Full Album) (2023)

Black Metal from Finland.
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Tracklist:
0:00 1. Come Curses
3:35 2. Viperblood Transfusion
5:13 3. With Sulfur Carriage
9:09 4. Baptized In Jesus' Piss
11:25 5. Transylvanian Glare
14:42 6. Final Descent
19:19 7. Judgement From Below
22:37 8. Call From The Void
26:25 9. On A Shrine Of Rats

Arnaut or Arnold Paole was a hajduk (warrior class in the Balkans who continued to fight Turk occupation when war was over) who is reported to have contracted vampirism from the Turks and spread it in Serbia. It is one of the only known cases where doctors and official reports verify vampirism. He was thought responsible for the first outbreak in Serbia.

The first outbreak is only known from a report about the second epidemic and its prehistory. According to the account of the Medveđa locals as retold there, Arnaut Paole was who had moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. He reportedly often mentioned that he had been plagued by a vampire in Kosovo, but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with its blood. About 1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four people complained that they had been plagued by him. These people all died shortly thereafter.

Ten days later, and forty days after Arnaut's death, the villagers, advised by the village leader who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed, with all the indications of vampirism. His veins were replete with fluid-blood "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Further, "his body was red, his hair, nails and beard had all grown again. Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, to which he reacted by frightful shriek as if he were alive, groaning and bleeding. That done, they cut off his head and burnt the whole body. They then disinterred Paole's four supposed victims and performed the same procedure, to prevent them from becoming vampires as well

The second outbreak occured about five years later, in the winter of 1731, with more than ten people dying within several weeks, some of them in just two or three days without any previous illness and others after 3 days of languishing. The numbers and the age of the deceased vary somewhat between the two main sources.

Glaser's report on the case states that by 12 December, 13 people had died in the course of six weeks. The sick had complained of stabs in the sides and pain in the chest, prolonged fever and jerks of the limbs. Glaser reports that the locals considered two women, Milica and Stana, to have started the vampirism epidemic. According to his retelling, Milica had come to the village from Ottoman-controlled territories six years before. The locals' testimony indicated she had once mentioned to them that, while still in Ottoman lands, she had eaten two sheep that had been killed by vampires. Stana, on the other hand, had admitted that when she was in Ottoman-controlled lands, she had smeared herself with vampire blood as a protection against vampires as these had been very active there. According to local belief, both things would cause the women to become vampires after death.

According to Flückinger's report, by 7 January, 17 people had died within a period of three months. The report mentions a girl named Stanoska who went to bed in perfect health, awoke in the middle of the night in a tremble, uttering terrible shrieks, and saying that the son of Heyducq Millo who had been dead nine weeks, had nearly strangled her in her sleep. She fell into a languid state from that moment, and at the end of three days she died. What this girl had said of Millo's son made him known at once to be a vampire: he was exhumed and found to be such. The principle people of the place, with the doctors and surgeons, examined how vampirism could have sprung up again after the precautions they had taken years before.

Sources:
Augustin Calmet - Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants Volumes I & II (1751)
Two original reports (in German)
http://www.paranormal.de/vampir/quelleb.html
http://www.paranormal.de/vampir/quellec.html
Translation of 2nd report (English)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060315125133/http://www.vampgirl.com/visum.html