Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35958194-20180625113250

Arnold Paole

In place where I live, there is a tradition to talk about this story so I wanted to share this story with you. The story is real. Beacuse English is my second language, you can correct me if there are some grammar mistakes.

Have you heard about Arnold Paole? He was a part of peasant irregular infantry called Hajduci. They were bandits who lived on peninsula Balkan between 17th and 19th century. Ottomans were fighting with them. He became famous because a vampire chased him from Greece to Serbia where he killed him. Vampire plagued him. In order to prevent him from becoming a vampire, he was eating dirt from the vampire`s grave. He was also searing himself with vampire`s blood. After this shocking incident, Arnold Paole came back to his village called Medvedje. Arnold Paole became a farmer and he was married with his neighbor`s daughter but in 1725 he fell off a hay wagon and broke his neck. Few days before his death, he told his wife that he is scared of dying young. After his death people claimed that they were visited by him and that he plagued them. Four people died shortly thereafter.

This is just a part of the story, I posted this because I want to se what people think about it. Thank you for reading this.  