History 2183A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Microsoft Powerpoint, Gerard Van Swieten, Mercy Brown Vampire Incident
13 Apr 2015
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Vampires: dawn of the dead based on night of the living dead movie. Soul leaves the body but the soul reminds close to the body for 40 days. If anything disturbs area around the body during the 40 days, you could turn into a vampire. Buried without proper funeral rites = vampire. Typical image of vampire was just a bag of blood . If you prick them with a knife or thorn they would burst (how you got rid of a vampire) In 1718 the area given to the habsburg monarchy (austria) You didn"t become a vampire by being bit from another vampire. Traditions become merged with western culture and fear of witches. Europeans said you can bite someone and they will turn into a vampire. This is how we get the notion of vampires who pass blood around and create other vampires. Vampire panics = idea that it can be spread by other vampires.
