tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459020489719069582.post7484108094087771769..comments2024-01-15T11:16:48.226+01:00Comments on Magia Posthuma: The Belgrade VampireNiels K. Petersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10136109970711449111noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459020489719069582.post-20237820925656197242009-10-19T18:18:59.127+02:002009-10-19T18:18:59.127+02:00"...recorded by Dr. Herbert Mayo in his estee..."...recorded by Dr. Herbert Mayo in his esteemed 1821 work: On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstition."<br /><br />Hmmm.<br /><br />If that is a benchmark for the rest of the work, then I certainly have my reservations in buying it.<br /><br />Firstly, I'd hardly call Mayo's work "esteemed", considering how fictionalised his account was.<br /><br />To be fair on Cheung, Mayo's article was held in higher regard during the 19th century because of his theory on the "death-trance" being accountable for corpses preserved in the "vampire state". Even Stoker was a fan of this notion.<br /><br />Second, the work she refers to was certainly not published in 1821.<br /><br />It originally took form as a series of letters for <i>Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine</i>, published in 1847.<br /><br />They were collated and edited in book form, in a 1849 work called <i>Letters on the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions</i>.<br /><br />It was published in a second and third edition called <i>On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions, with an Account of Mesmerism</i> (both 1851).Anthony Hogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08647370834507823458noreply@blogger.com