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, 2 November 2013
A visit to Kisiljevo
Author James Lyon recently visited Kisiljevo in Serbia with ABC News in search of Peter Plogojowitz.
I can't agree with the definition ""Ground 0 of Vampires"... The word vampire is much older. The first witness we can find in a Russian manuscript of the XI century, of course in the form "upir". But the word "vampire", is just a south Slavic variant of the word "upir" (look for example at the A. Vaillant study of the year 1931: Slave commune upiri, s.cr. vampir, Slavia 10/4, pp.673-679)
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I can't agree with the definition ""Ground 0 of Vampires"... The word vampire is much older. The first witness we can find in a Russian manuscript of the XI century, of course in the form "upir". But the word "vampire", is just a south Slavic variant of the word "upir" (look for example at the A. Vaillant study of the year 1931: Slave commune upiri, s.cr. vampir, Slavia 10/4, pp.673-679)
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