Chapter 6

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

Chapter 6

OPINION Dutch magazine "GLANER"

In the study of stories about the supposed death of the martyrs of vampirism open all the symptoms of an epidemic of fanaticism, as well as the fact that the impression made on them by fear, is the main cause of their death.
The above Stanoska, daughter Iotuytso, went to bed perfectly healthy, awake at night with a desperate cry and complain that Millo, who died son chasseur, choked her throat. Then she felt a sharp pain in the chest and died on the eighth day.

Sense can easily see that in this case alleged vampirism is merely empty fiction Upset fantasy.
We are talking about a girl who woke up at night and complained that it stifles the vampire, but did not explain how her screams could prevent a vampire continue their actions. There is every reason to think that the vampire is not repeating his effects, because in for the next night, relatives would not leave her bed, and also because her screams, if a vampire decided to torture her, would give to know about caring for her people . On the eighth day, however, she died. Her sorrow and fear, her despair and anguish clearly shows how much was upset her imagination.

Residents of cities that suffered from pestilence, they know from experience that many fear is life. As soon as people feel the most miserable pain, he thinks that the epidemic struck, it is so much effect on him that he could become seriously ill.

If we examine a different story about the death of a tortured vampire, then open the obvious evidence that in this case the main role played by fear and superstition. The dead three days after the burial was a night in a dream to his son and demanded dinner, ate and gone. The next day the son told his dream to neighbors. The next night my father did not attend, but this morning the son was found dead in his bed. In this story of superstition and fear are obvious. For the first time, to act on the son of a diseased imagination, a visit has not made the proper action, but the spirit of free meals to more impressive that happened after. It is remarkable that a vampire was not that night, the eve of a son told his dream to neighbors because, as to all appearances, the neighbors at night were with him, and therefore would not let him get scared.
I now turn to the study of those bodies whose blood was liquid, beard, hair and nails grow. Of these miracles can throw out three-quarters of their content and be very condescending, if you leave the particle. Everyone is well aware that the common people and even historians, often very well-known to exaggerate the facts, even if any beyond the ordinary, then it is easy to physically explain these facts.

From experience we know that in some parts of the world body can not long persist in all its freshness. This phenomenon is explained very satisfactorily, and therefore not be amiss to quote here one of these facts. In Toulouse, a monastic church in a cave, preserved dead bodies before this piece, they can easily be taken for the body died, whereas those who died left a life was like 200 years ago. These bodies and the costumes of his order had been leaning against the wall upright. But the striking of all in this case, the fact that the body set on the other side of the cave, become the prey of worms in two or three days.
We often notice that the dead grow hair, beard and nails. The reason for this phenomenon is clear: since the body is a little phlegm, then no wonder that the lifeless parts may continue for some time vegetation.

Liquid blood is very difficult to explain, but also for its presence in the body of the deceased, you can specify the natural base. When sunlight heats the nitrate and sulfur of the soil, able to preserve the body, then these parts, mixing with svezhepogrebennym corpse, lead to unrest thickening the blood and dissolving it. The possibility of this phenomenon proved experience. If in an earthen or glass vessel is heated Heal (Heal, or milky sap, - part of the gastric slurry designated for connection to the blood) or milk from two thirds of tartaric distilled oil, a white liquid turns into the red because of the salt tartar, diluted oil the milk completely dissolves and turns it into a kind of blood. The blood vessels formed in the body, less red and thicker. And of course, that heat, stirring excitement in the buried body, produces the same effect, what happens in the above experiment, because the juices of the body and the bones are very similar to healing and fat and the brain are oily this healing. All these parts are excited to take the form of blood on the basis referred ekspirementa. Once known as vampires can emit from a liquid referred to, consisting of dissolved fatty parts, and it's the taking of blood.