It was 275 years ago...

While updating my chronology of events related to Magia Posthuma and vampires, I noticed that yesterday, today, and tomorrow are some of the dates that periodicals around Europe published accounts concerning vampires 275 years ago. Actually, on Monday May 29th 1732 the word vampire (actually a latin plural form: Vampyres) was mentioned for the first time in a Danish magazine. The word is used in a satirical notice concerning a proposed book by Otto von Stein, the infamous vice president of the Royal Prussian Scientific Society, that he could not get printed.