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, 7 March 2010
Revenants and vampire forensics
National Geographics has recently aired a documentary on 'vampire forensics' inspired by the find of a skeleton near Venice that some archaeologists have claimed to have been that of a 'vampire corpse' - see e.g. this previous post. The theory is highly improbable, but the documentary may still be very interesting to watch. I suppose that it is closely linked to the new book from National Geographics on the same subject, which is advertised in the video below.
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