Chapter 2

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

Chapter 2

Scene One girl, seven months after its burial. The story of one woman who was dug from the grave alive

Phlegon, freedman of Caesar Hadrian, in his book tells about a wonderful following. In Trallose, in Asia, known in the town tavern Mahates was in connection with a girl named Owl, daughter Demonstration and Haritini. This girl died, but in continuing the six months after the death of her lover visited. Nurse girl knew her once when she was in the room Siehl Mahetesa and immediately notified about her mother, but she hesitated to go to the hotel. When it got there, it was too late, everyone was asleep, and she could not learn. Mahates the next morning told his mother that the owl visited him with a certain time every night, and the proof of truthfulness of what he said, presented her a gold ring he had received from the owl, and the tape, which was laid at the burial of her chest. Haritini, no doubt more in the justice told her, raised a terrible cry, but it reassured that promised to inform as soon as the owl again appear. When, as usual, the evening owl came Mahates immediately notified the parents of her, because he himself had begun to question not whether it was some other girl, who stole clothing from the grave of his beloved in order to deceive him. Demonstrat and Haritini soon appeared, and seeing his daughter, rushed to her with open arms. But she cried out:''Parents! Why are you jealous of my happiness, and defraud him from me? Three days left for me to come to this house, and I harm no one cause. Your curiosity will cost you dearly.'' With these slovampi she fell dead on the bed.
Phlegon, who had a Trallose some power, reassured who gathered on this occasion people. But the next day, residents of the city came together and decided to see the crypt, in which for half a year before the sim was buried owl. Inspected and found all buried there from her family, but the corpse was not a girl, found only in the ring, she had received from Mahatesa, and gold-plated trophy, which she just received from Mahatesa together with the ring. The people once again marched to the house mahatesa where the body lay. Please consult the predictor. He said that the corpse must be buried outside the city, in honor of the deceased should be a celebration, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury must be sacrifice, etc. Fligon in his letter, referring to the person who wrote about the incident, said: ' 'If you find it necessary to notify the Caesar, with notice of me, so I can send to you some of those people who witnessed the incident.''

Here is one of the most remarkable facts, which is under itself all that is necessary to be recognized for the truth! Meanwhile, how much is it difficult to understand! Was this girl really died or found dead when she was in a state litargii or just sleep? Apparently, one can not doubt that she was in his own body: all the circumstances Flegonova story confirms this. If we accept that it did not die and, therefore, it was all on her side only a fraud, designed to make to satisfy their passion for Mahatesu, in this case, the story is nothing incredible. We know what is capable of powerful love and what it can to encourage people.

The same Phlegon says that one Syrian soldier from the army of Antiochus, who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae, the day was a Roman camp and talked to many soldiers.

Augustine says the following: when he was in Milan, a young man was constantly prisleduem their lender. Debt, which the latter demanded from him was, in fact, the debt of his father, at that time had already died, and was paid to them during his lifetime, but the son did not have the faintest written testimony. The spirit of his father was his son and pointed out the place where lay the receipt, because of which he brought so much trouble.

Given here and many other stories about the dead returning to a time of life, could serve as an explanation of how the vampires after a fairly long time after their death out of their coffins, and then again returned to them. But that is difficult to solve: 1) whether the story is true, and 2) whether these dead back to life by themselves, and 3) whether they were really dead, or were buried in a state of lethargy. But no matter how explain these facts, they are - still remain improbable and impossible.

In one of the newest works tell the story, which has many similarities with that given us a story Phlegon.
One trader in Paris had promised the hand of his daughter one of his friends, also a merchant. But at the same time, another very rich official offered his hand of the girl, and he really preferred the merchant. The marriage took place. But soon the young ill, and during one of the attacks of the disease found her dead and buried. Her first husband, shallow, that it was buried in a state of lethargy or fainting, night otkapal body allegedly dead. It really was alive, he took her to his house and married her. Then they went to England and lived there quietly for several years. Ten years later, they returned to Paris, and here one day while walking first husband recognized his allegedly deceased wife and began to demand in court that she returned to him. This gave a large trial. A woman and her second husband, said that death has destroyed the right of first marriage, and accused her first husband, because he hastened to her funeral. But, seeing that it is not tending to their side, they left home and went away to foreign lands where they lived until death.

This story is so unusual that is hard to believe it. For our part, we share only strange story, providing the reader to judge its authenticity. Can you believe that the owl, which tells Phlegon, was buried alive?