Chapter 1

''Thesis about the appearance of angels, demons and ghosts, as well as the appearance of vampires in Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (1746)''

Chapter 1

RENEWAL Imaginary People. Legend of ARISTOV PROKONEZSKOM
Renewal of some persons who were considered dead, whereas in reality they are only located in a state of lethargy; further awakening of some who Tankerman to such an extent that they had been dead, and that various medical facilities, care and skill of doctors have been deduced from this state - all detailed examples of recovery are not the facts of the true recovery: these people were not really dead, but only seemed so.
We present here a few examples, when the dead came to life after several months or even years after their burial, which, even if they were buried alive and in the continuation of this time were bound to suffocate in their own coffins, and who, despite this, found all the signs of life: liquid blood, neistlevshee body, fresh and nice complexion, flexible, and movable members. These creatures during the day or night, came out of their graves and disturb the living: they suck blood, sometimes even killed, being in the house of their relatives sat at the table, made thousands of these things and finally they returned to their graves, but no one saw they were there.
If they come to life were not really dead, it remains unexplained how and under what circumstances they came out of their graves? Do they awoke from the lethargy or the breath of life returned to them, as happens with those who suddenly fall into a swoon, but after a while, as soon as the blood and vitality once again begin its normal departures, naturally come to their senses?
But how they go out and logs back to their graves, without breaking the land and for anyone not see? Is it possible that the state of lethargy or fainting lasted for years?
Despite, however, on this, stories of this kind existed, and there are many. For example, Origen, in his book against Celsius leads to the following story: Aristei, one of the finest citizens prokonezskih, who came once in the house of a craftsman, died suddenly. Craftsman, locking the house, went to the hour to relatives of the deceased to inform them of his death. Rumors about the incident soon spread throughout the city. Here was a man from Cyzicus, he assured everyone that the road from Cyzicus had just met Aristeas and spoke with him, and, therefore, can not be that he died. Relatives of the dead with signs of dignity, as was the custom, went to the house of an artisan, to pick up the body of the deceased. But when they came in the house either dead or alive Aristeas was found. Seven years later he was seen in the city, then he has disappeared again. After 340 years, Aristei appeared in Metapontum in Sicily and demanded that the residents in the city to build a temple to Apollo and it put a statue in honor of Aristea Prokonezskogo, while adding that they were the only ones of all the peoples of Italy, which Apollo deigns his presence, and that he who now speaks to them, he accompanied the god in the guise of a crow. Having said this, he has disappeared. Residents Metapontum about this phenomenon applied to the Delphic oracle, and he replied that they should follow the advice of Aristeas, because it will of great benefit. Indeed, they put on the town square, two statues - Apollo and Aristov and socket of laurel trees. Statues of these survived until the time of Herodotus.