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, 28 June 2009

Did Valvasor believe in vampires?

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That is a question posed by Irmgard Palladino and Maria Bidovec in their book Johann Weichard von Valvasor (1641-1693): Ein Protagonist de...

Lexikon '88

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I don't seem to remember coming across this web site before, but Lexikon '88 is a very handy online edition of Meyers Großes Konver...

Flea market finds

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Yesterday I went to a local flea market and came back home with a book of manuscripts from Carl Th. Dreyer 's Vampyr and three other of...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

St. John's Eve

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Yesterday I carried some branches from our garden for a bonfire in a local park. It was set on fire earlier this evening to celebrate St. J...

The crypt of Javier Arries

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Nicolaus Equiamicus has kindly made me aware of this Spanish web site about vampires by Javier Arries , author of a 2007 book about vampir...
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Monday, 22 June 2009

Vienna

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So next week I will be in Vienna for the conference on vampirism and magia posthuma . The next few days I will be working on my presentatio...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Un itinéraire intellectuel

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Some time ago I mentioned the book Dom Augustin Calmet: Un itinéraire intellectuel . In the meantime I have obtained a copy of this surprisi...
Sunday, 14 June 2009

Conference abstracts

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The abstracts for the forthcoming conference on vampirism and posthumous magic in Vienna are now online in German as well as English.  
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Monday, 8 June 2009

'I can smell the sunlight on your skin...'

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I am currently three episodes into watching the first season of True Blood which I received on DVD from USA the other day. I am not quite s...
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Wikisource

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I have received this kind e-mail that I thought I might as well just publish here. I am sure some of you will be interested in the links cou...
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