On several occasions, particularly on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries, dead people were suspected of being revenants or vampires, and consequently dug up and destroyed. Some contemporary authors named this phenomenon Magia Posthuma. This blog is dedicated to understanding what happened and why.
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Die Vampir Prinzessin
A DVD documentary which is somehow concerned with our subject of Magia Posthuma was released late in 2007: Die Vampir Prinzessin (The Vampire Princess) is, it seems, inspired by archeological excavations of three corpses showing signs of being treated as if suspected of posthumous magic, but tells the tale of a Bohemian countess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg (1682-1741). I expect to review it here within the next couple of weeks...
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