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.

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

A Swedish study of the vampire tale

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Swedish Anna Höglund this December defended her thesis on Vampyrer. En kulturkritisk studie av den västerländska vampyrberättelsen från 170...
Thursday, 24 December 2009

Season's greetings!

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My best wishes to everybody. I hope you will all have a merry christmas! After a busy December I wish that I will find more time to post her...
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Thursday, 10 December 2009

Forensic science

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The examination of corpses and their consitution is an essential part of 'vampirology', so it is appropriate to find Mark Benecke o...
Sunday, 6 December 2009

Imperial Provisor Frombald

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I am not sure what to make of this, but it seems that good old Imperial Provisor Frombald may inspire some kind of animated short ?
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Monday, 30 November 2009

"Time has no respect for beauty"

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Being 38 and worried about wrinkles and age setting in is hardly uncommon, but in the case of Erzebet Bathory it becomes an obsession when ...
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Monday, 23 November 2009

Isle of the Dead

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Boris Karloff Blogathon : Like Fuseli ’s Nightmare has become an iconic image, so the famous Die Toteninsel ( Isle of the Dead ) painting ...
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Saturday, 21 November 2009

Romancing the Vampire

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I was quite surprised when I went to the post office earlier today to fetch a new vampire book I had ordered, because I received a large par...
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Monday, 16 November 2009

Haralde ou Hrappe

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Rob Brautigam has recently added quite a number of new cases to his Shroudeater web site , one of them listed as coming from my native coun...

Witchcraft, werewolves and masculinity

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'Men and masculinities are still incorporated inadequately into the history of early modern witch-trials, despite the fact that 20-25% o...
Sunday, 15 November 2009

A vampire in Serbia in 2009

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A vampire recently haunted a Serbian village, if we are to believe Serbian newspapers and national TV. I have a reader of this blog, Predrag...
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