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, 30 January 2011
'Vampire epidemic'
As shown in an old post on the Visum et Repertum, a copy was sent from Vienna to the Danish government early in 1732. This document and others documenting supernatural beliefs in the archives in Copenhagen are briefly described in this 'web exhibition'. The exhibition is, unfortunately, only in Danish.
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