Magia Posthuma

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, 31 May 2009

Programme

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The programme for the Vampirismus and magia posthuma conference is now online as pdf file . A short description in English is also availab...

The Birth of the Vampire

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Michael Pickering whom I mentioned here , presented a talk on the subject of The Birth of the Vampire in Vienna couple of days ago. Accord...
Sunday, 24 May 2009

Encyclopaedia Vampirica

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A new encyclopedia about vampires was recently published in France: Encyclopaedia Vampirica - Encyclopédie Illustrée des Vampires by Jean-P...
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Saturday, 23 May 2009

New Testament Magic?

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I was recently contacted by Robert Conner who writes: I bumped into your fascinating site while looking for Phlegon. There has been some s...
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Thursday, 21 May 2009

Vampirism and magia posthuma conference

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More information on the forthcoming conference on vampirism and magia posthuma in Vienna is now available at the Kakanien Revisited site . ...
Sunday, 10 May 2009

Vampiri

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This blog has been pretty quiet for a while. Other tasks have required my attention, and whatever I have been doing on vampires and magia po...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

Using the internet

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Very few books really incorporate the internet as a kind of appendix. One example, though, is Johannes Dillinger 's Hexen und Magie (Ca...
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Saturday, 11 April 2009

'Principe indubitable': La résurrection d'un mort est l'ouvrage de Dieu seul

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In these days, millions of Christians affirm their belief in the resurrection of Christ and consequently: of the dead . 'Si autem resur...
Friday, 10 April 2009

Why do vampires still thrill?

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There was an interesting essay on the popularity of vampires, Dracula and annotated editions of Stoker's Dracula in The New Yorker a w...

World's Weirdest?

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This morning I read a newsletter from Abebooks about what they consider to be the world's weirdest book . At the end they write: 'If...
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