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, 5 June 2008
Cover art
I have been asked about the painting on the cover of the Romanian book shown in this post. It's a painting by a Polish artist whose name is spelled either as Bolesław Biegass of Boleslas Biegas (1877-1954). It is usually called Kiss of the Vampire in English, but I'm not sure about the original title. Biegas painted a few other paintings with a similar motif.
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