Most stories are on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. The most famous are those of vampires and fairies. According to sources, the first and most famous vampire was in Croatia in Istria Juraj Grando in the 17th or 18th century. Once he died, he visited his wife and drank her blood every night until the locals were willing to come to his grave.
When they opened it they saw him watching them. They beat him and pierced his heart with a hawthorn stake. Since then fell silent, but appeared to be a new vampire in the territory of Serbia according to which the movie was shot, “Leptirica” (in translation, She Butterfly). The movie was filmed in a village Zelinje, near the river Drina, close to the city Zvornik.
An old miller hears strange sounds coming from the woods. While he sleeps, a millstone suddenly stops working and a strange human-like creature with black hands and long teeth and nails bites his neck.
After the opening scene, the film turns to a romance between a poor young man Strahinja and a beautiful girl Radojka. Radojka, the daughter of landowner Živan, refuses to allow her to marry Strahinja.
Disappointed, Strahinja leaves his village and goes to Zarožje. He meets peasants discussing the cursed mill and accepts their offer to become the new miller. He spends the night in the mill and survives the attack of the creature, finding out its name - Sava Savanović. The villagers visit the oldest woman in a neighboring village and ask her if there is a grave of somemone called Sava Savanović somewhere nearby. After finding the place where his body is buried, they nail a stake through the coffin and a butterfly flies out.
The peasants help Strahinja take Radojka from her home and bring her to Zarožje. During the night, while the villagers are preparing the wedding, Strahinja sneaks into his future wife’s room while she is asleep. As he undresses her, he discovers a bloody hole under her breasts.
Radojka opens her eyes and transforms into a disgusting hairy creature which climbs onto Strahinja’s neck while he is trying to run away. She leads him to Sava’s grave where he manages to take the stake out of the coffin and impale her.
The film ends with Strahija lying motionlessly on the ground and a butterfly in his hair moving its wings.
Now about Serbian vampire Sava Savanović:
Sava Savanović was said to have lived in an old watermill on the Rogačica river, at Zarožje village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta. It was said that he killed and drank the blood of the millers when they came to mill their grains. Although he is usually said to have been the first Serbian vampire, there are claims that he was pre-dated in Serbian folklore by Petar Blagojević from Veliko Gradište, who died in 1724. Petar Blagojević and the affair surrounding him came to European attention at the time, under the name Peter Plogojowitz, and represented one of the earliest examples of vampire hysteria.
For the last several decades the watermill associated with Savanović has been owned by the Jagodić family, and is usually called “Jagodića vodenica” (Jagodići’s watermill).It was in operation until the late 1950s.
After its closure, it became a tourist site along with other attractions in Valjevo and nearby villages.
In 2012, the mill collapsed. The municipal authorities issued a tongue-in-cheek public health warning, advising people that Savanović was now free to look for a new home.
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