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Forget Dracula: Why the Original Slavic ‘Upir’ is the Real King of Vampires

October 28, 2025 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Discover the Upir, the original Slavic vampire. Forget capes and castles; this monster was a bloated corpse, and its myth was born from real-life terror.

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