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.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Symposium in May
Last year I mentioned this upcoming symposium on The Vampire and the Devil. A bit more information is now available here. Well, the information is more of a practical nature than explanatory of the subject.
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