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.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Vampires at the archive
Danish language video about the copy of the Visum et Repertum stored at the Danish State Archives in Copenhagen, as I wrote about in a post on the Visum et Repertum and in my contribution to the 2009 conference in Vienna, now available in Vampirismus und magia posthuma im Diskurs der Habsburgermonarchie edited by Augustynowicz and Reber.
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