I have an old photocopy of
Michael Ranft's 1734
Traktat von dem Kauen und Schmatzen der Todten in Gräbern which I have studied over the years. Before
Calmet's
Dissertations this was the only book that attempted to collect more or less all available knowledge on vampires and comment on the authors who had themselves commented on Ranft's Latin first edition.
I also have a modernized
edition that was published in 2006 by Ubooks in Germany.
Now, however, the original has been scanned and made available to the public on the internet by
Klassik Stiftung Weimar here, so everyone interested in our subject of
magia posthuma and vampires can get to read - or at least take a look at - this important book!
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