Petar Blagojević

Petar Blagojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Благојевић, German: Peter Plogojowitz; died 1725) was a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and to have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was the earliest, one of the most sensational and most well documented cases of vampire hysteria. It was described in the report of Imperial Provisor Ernst Frombald, an official of the Austrian monarchy, who witnessed the staking of Blagojević.

Scholars have noted the influence of Blagojević's case upon the development of the image of the modern vampire in Western popular culture.