Chapter 5

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

Chapter 5

OPINION ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE JEWS VAMPIRE LETTERS

There are two means against the ridiculous nonsense about the so-called vampires. The first is that the purely physical reasons to explain the wonders of vampirism, the second - to reject the validity tell stories of this kind, and the latter is, without doubt, the surest way and wiser. But as there are people for whom evidence of any credible person may be sufficient reason to accept as true the most absurd story, so it is first necessary to show how little you can rely on the evidence, even famous people, when it calls scientific research. We agree that people really died from the so-called vampirism. To justify our opinion, we believe: it is very possible that the bodies, buried even a few days ago, was liquid blood. Further, it is very possible that vampires suck the blood of the people were only in their imagination and fear, produced with imagination, could cause such a strong shock throughout their body that they died. The imaginary vampires completely mastered their thoughts and imagination, while sleeping imagination, of course, could produce an image of these monsters and to cause such fear, that they immediately or shortly afterwards died. Who has not seen or at least, to hear about people who died in moments of intense fear? The most powerful pleasure - does not involve whether it had such sad consequences?

In "Leypigtseyskoy newspaper happened to us to read the summary of a small book entitled:" Philosophy and Christian talk about vampires. Composing J. Ehrenberg, "which refers to the many other writings on this subject. The author argues that vampires do not destroy the people and all the stories about this should only be patient and disordered imagination. Many examples, he argues that the imagination can produce very strong shocks in the body. Then he said that, as in Slavonia killers pierced with stakes through the heart, this penalty is applied to the vampires in the assumption that they were responsible for the death of those who suck the blood. He cites several examples of vampire killings in 1337 and 1347, respectively. Further, the author presents the views of those who believed that the dead in their coffins eat. The antiquity of this opinion, he proves references Tertuliana on the addition to his writings on the resurrection and the writings of Augustine. The above their place of Tertuliana clearly shows that the pagans put their dead food, and even those whose bodies are burned. They believed that the food they serve to reinforce.