Sunday, 15 September 2013

A surgeon's eyewitness accounts from Transylvania and Wallachia

›
Most of what was written on vampires in the eighteenth century consisted of commentaries on either a very small corpus of eyewitness acc...
6 comments:
Saturday, 7 September 2013

Sleep paralysis and 'a sensationalist cock-and-bull story'

›
'From 12th-century 'revenants' to today's teen thriller Twilight , belief in vampires has been an enduring theme in cultu...
Tuesday, 27 August 2013

The Werewolf in European Culture

›
Matthew Beresford , author of From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth , is shortly publishing a book on the relate...
1 comment:
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland

›
Out in November from palgrave macmillan: Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 by Wanda Wyporska , who has studied the documents f...
2 comments:
Sunday, 11 August 2013

A Financial Nightmare

›
The city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy this Summer, and there has been much speculation whether it will be decided to auction off pieces ...
2 comments:
Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Rarities at Schloss Ambras: Vlad Tepes

›
The 1655 engraving of the Danish physician and antiquarian  Ole Worm 's collection of various animals, plants, minerals and other obj...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Directions to go to Munich

›
From Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula : A Facsimile Edition  by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller p. 34-5: 'Directions in...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

'Vampire skeletons' in Poland

›
See Dziennik zachodni  for more photos While constructing a ring road in Gliwice in South West Poland , formerly part of Silesia , f...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

A well-illustrated history of a modern myth

›
When in Paris a couple of months ago, I picked up a number of books at the Musée d'Orsay, including Jean Marigny 's Vampires de la...
2 comments:
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Symbolic trepanation

›
Source: Bolgari According to Professor of anthropology, Yordan Yordanov , who has studied and reconstructed the head of the ‘vampire ske...