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, 31 August 2008
Vienna
'Wien ist überhaupt ein guter Ort zur Erforschung der Vampire,' says Heiko Haumann in a paper on vampires in Eastern Europe (Vienna is altogether a good place for researching vampires). Consequently I am very happy to have finally booked flights and a hotel to go to Vienna for a few days later this year. I haven't been there for many, many years, and certainly I wasn't thinking of vampires or magia posthuma back then. Actually, I would probably rather have considered visiting the Borgo Pass or something like that, if I were to visit a place associated with the history of vampires...
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