The First Vampires - How Early Vampirism Impacted Theology, Philosophy & the Occult
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- What are the origins of the Vampire? Born in Eastern European folklore and transformed by Enlightenment, the Vampire is truly the first modern monster. We all know Dracula but what do the earliest Vampire accounts reveal to us about the origins of this undead, blood-sucking creature? Let's turn back to those accounts and see just how different the first recorded Vampires were from the dapper fanged aristocrats of Stoker and Rice. Though, not only did the Vampire come to haunt the imagination but the Undead also proved a formidable threat to both Enlightenment Philosophy, early Occult Philosophy and Catholic Theology all of which had some say during the "Vampire Craze" of 1720-1750.
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is it Anne Rice to blame for making Vampires into sexy/rapish things? i always understood the Bram Stoker stuff as "murder mystery" in nature, but by the time of Twilight its pretty cleary sexied up 👀
Hey would you be interested in analysing Santa Muerte worship and its relationship with catholocism and her growing relation with the occult
Have you listened to The Histocrat's Mythillogical podcast episode on Vampires? It's really quite good, but you definitely managed to unearth some references and sources even they had passed over and brought them to a state of undeath for us! Wonderful stuff, between their old episode and you and Filip's episodes there is a bloody delicious feast of vampiric education!
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You DO understand the difference between Hollywood and occult legend vampires, right?
I had never thought of the theological issue of raising the undead as a violation of the Divine power of resurrection. Thank you for your work, I always find it very fascinating and educational.
the livestock becoming infected with vampirism after vampires feed on them and then going on to infect the humans that eat the livestock is SUCH a cool idea idk why ive never seen this in vampire fiction before, esp since vampires feeding on livestock is already a thing in some vampire fiction.
im guessing this idea came from people becoming sick and dying after eating meat from livestock that was infected with anthrax or some other disease (especially since the dead animals that died from anthrax are often found with blood in their mouth)
This was a fascinating video, especially to me because I'm from the Western Balkans. It's one of our few points of pride, the fact that the word "vampire" is the only word that comes from our language that is used world-wide (that language being what we called Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia, but now has no common name as 4 countries all claim that their dialect is a different language). The actual word, "vampir" doesn't really have a clear etymology here, but is definitely related to the old word for "bat". The word for bat used to be "netopir" ("pir" coming from the verb "piriti", which essentially means "to glide", and "neto" possibly coming from the Proto-Slavic word for "night", so a night-glider), but after the Ottoman period was replaced with "šišmiš" ("šiš" being the Turkish word for the attic, and "miš" meaning mouse, because after all what is a bat if not a rat from above). Variations of the word "netopir" are still used to mean "bat" in Slovene and Czech languages today.
Another etymology goes back to an Albanian dialect (which itself is a remnant of the old Ilyrian languages, tying it back to the Western Balkans), and their word "dhampir". "Dham" means "tooth" and "pir" means "drink", so it would be a creature that drinks through its teeth.
Another interesting tidbit comes from a Russian variant of the Vampire myth, known as the Wurdalak. It is a typical vampire, just with the caveat that a wurdalak must convert his entire family after his own conversion. But the name comes from "vukodlak", which is the Western Balkan word for "werewolf" ("vuk" means "wolf", and "dlaka" means "hair" or "fur"). The early myths of vampire and werewolves have a common origin. Even in Stoker's "Dracula", the count can transform into a wolf, a bat, and mist.
One thing that I though was interesting about this video is that there was no mention of Sava Sevanović, who in these parts is usually referred to as "the first vampire". His story is a little older than those of Petar Blagojević and Pavle Arnaut (referred to as Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole in this video), but more recent than Jure Grando's. Not much is really known about Sava, it's mostly his name that people know now, but I would recommend to everyone to check out the movie "Leptirica". It is the first horror film made in Yugoslavia, adapted from the book "After Ninety Years" by Milovan Glišić. It's a story about Sava's attacks long after his death, and the vampire's form is more reminiscent of a werewolf (tying back into that piece of trivia). It's not a great film by any means, but it is the only real vampire film made in the region from where the myth supposedly originates, and is thus an important piece of vampiric history.
Thank you!!!
thank you for sharing such interesting information! much love :}
Such interesting bits of history on this channel and in the comments.
po čajkanoviću 'vampir' je etimološki vezan za riječ 'leptir'. međutim ako se pogledaju 'netopir' i 'leptir' čini se i da su ta dva pojma povezana, u vukovom riječniku 'metopir' je leptir
Early History channel documentary, found on VHS.. reference, forgive me please,, Stree-Go... how all or most, folklore birthed from this, cursed afterlife.. this history has always fascinated me.. thank you.. for any and all help with understanding.. cheers from Southern California
I learned a lot about vampires in a class I took all about the “monstrous other” and it was really fascinating to see the development of their lore over time. Thank you again Dr. Sledge!
Fantastic work, Dr Sledge. Thank you for continuing such divine scholarship to the masses, even despite the tragic recents events in your Detroit religious community. I hope for justice to arrive soon.
excellent comment and i can only agree
Yes. Truly terrible. I hope you are all safe, and have no more of that. 🙏♥️✌️
Divine scholarship for the masses. A only LP vinyl, double record rock symphony. What a great title.
"Everybody had a vampire in this fight" makes me imagine a Pokemon-like tournament where every ideological current sends it's vampire to fight for supremacy
Will there be a vampire training montage?
@@Shin_Lonathat would be funny
In last few years,archeologists found vampire burials in Poland.
the respect and camaraderie in this sphere of youtube is so refreshing. the way you linked filip’s video before your own patreon in the description genuinely made me tear up
I’m a firm believer that folk of the vampires was born in Maya regions. The half man half bat Camazotz was talked about in Spanish Catholic circles in the 1500s. The camazotz play a critical role in the mythology of the Popol Vuh as the Xibalba brothers defeat them. They are camazotz statues all over Mexico and Guatemala. There are underground temples where they were worshipped. There are even days in the maya calendar attributed to them. Thanks for the episode. Cheers. ❤
the more i learn about things like "Spanish Catholicism circles in the 1500s" the more i learn how deep the crazy-esoteric-occult stuff is. its not at all the concise and pure "conservative Catholicism" that it is very easy to assume it is. things are just so much more complicated
@@beepboop204When you forcibly convert people as occurred at the time of the spanish inquisition, prior to which Spain was trireligious (Roman catholics, Jews and Muslim) as well as other african and celtic beliefs that persisted you are going to have other substratum of belief. Spain was a major trading area at that time with traders coming from all regions of the mediterranean and north and west Africa. In Mexico there was a substratum of friday night jews, people who celebrated shabbath and then went to the church.
I severely question how those beliefs could have spread to the whole of the rest of the world (as even Russia has their vampires) in the very brief period you mention. I think you're confusing today's spread of information with what would have happened in the 1600s. Also, all the European, Greek and Russian traditions (not counting the Chinese and other Oriental peoples) would not have the deep hold they have in their cultures in a mere 300 years.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 I see your point. Still the first mention of half man half bat creatures was with the Maya. Sahagun speaks about the cult of the bat creatures. And the Spanish Catholics loved weird messed up stories like we do today. Also the Catholics were always traveling in missionary missions and transferring. My uncle is a priest and he travels everywhere. This the way of Catholic friars and priests. The Spanish or new Spain stories would have easily traveled all over the world very rapidly.
Vampires aren't bats or much associated with them until Universal Studios started doing crossovers and needed the Wolfman and Dracula to be harder to confuse. Blood drinking owls and nightjars are a feature of Roman literature long predating European-Mayan interactions. But I guess youtube comment sections need JoJo references. @@jbaquinones
I just wanted to say thank you for the wealth of wisdom you have dispensed here over the years, its like discovering an unburnt part of the library of alexandria
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There is an ottoman traveller named Evliya Celebi, in his Seyehatname he accounts he met with an ottoman government hired team of vampire hunters called Obur Avcıları(glutton hunters) and with them he saw 2 tribes of abkhaz and circassian vampires/witches battling each other, the battle taking place in air, this vampires flying on top of household objects and tree branches. The mentioned text is in 7th book.
Dr Sledge, thank you so much for your work. It’s inspirational for someone like myself who wants to pursue a PhD in the Humanities. I love Academia.
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What does NPC me do? Please don't say run a YT channel ;)
@@TheEsotericaChannel Can't deny, was tempted! But the game is set in 2005. Much as I'd love to reimagine what your channel would've been like back then, YT's original 360p would be SLANDER.
I gave him a slightly humbler role, he daylights as a radio host for the Seattle Beat, and moonlights as an independent publisher who anonymously writes articles about occult and religious topics within the universe. If my players catch on to it and tune in regularly, they'll find there's premonitions and clues hidden in his works and commentary. He'll be awesome, I owe you that much!
Right as I’m researching about “vampires” and you so happen to upload at that exact time. Coincidental yet Bizarre. Thankyou again! And I love the sarcasm and humor when you discuss these topics 😂
Carl Theodor Dreyer's movie Vampyr is one of the few that showcase the Vampire figure in its earlier historical incarnation, back when it still wasn't entirely separate from the figure of the Witch. While that movie's been analyzed cinematographically for closed to a century by now, it might be interesting to analyze it from a purely esoteric point of view.
Bro how many people work on this channel? My dude stays cranking out that spooky goodness
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That's just referring to the community of scholars
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I appreciate your respect for all the subjects you discuss on your channel.
I have learned so much from your channel, and I've been studying the occult for 25+ years.
I've purchased several books you have suggested.
It's interesting that you note both the apparent carry-over from the witch craze to the vampire craze while also noting that Protestants looked down on the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox for their fear of vampires when Protestants had wholeheartedly engaged in witch trials. Do you think it was any sort of self-reflection as the Enlightenment took hold, or more just a case of "I may believe in witches, but at least I don't believe in vampires like those weirdos"?
Very good illustration pictures. I'd really appreciate a list of referenced images in every episode.
One of my professors before I graduated specialized in the Witch Hunts... I might send her a message about what you said re: the sociological link between vampires and witches. Interesting!
Thanks, Dr. Sledge! This one was a lot of fun!
Absolutely watching right now to distract my anxiety from Gaza, but damn this is an amazing episode
Thank you so much ❤
Great to hear from you V! And yes, what a nightmare in Gaza.
Warning: it gets pretty spooky for a few seconds @7:20 I wasn't ready for a spookening of that magnitude.
-- Also, thank you for the continued great content 🖤
There's definitely some overlap between this and alchemy.
The 4 stages of alchemy and undeath.
The aspect of gold and silver.
The green/red lion devouring the Sun.
The associations of immortality and the Philosopher's Stone. (and the myth of the immortal alchemist-also the Holy Grail associated with immortality through drinking and gold)
Maybe these aspects of vampiric folklore originate from these Paracelsians?
Or maybe they just took interest because it already existed.
Greetings from the original land of the vampires, Serbia. Great video :)
Another excellent episode! :)
I share your allergy for the sparkly vampires...when so many people have heard that I studied werewolves academically and wrote my dissertation and subsequent book largely on them, the immediate reaction has often been, "Oh, I bet you love the Twilight books, then," and not asked sarcastically. I have purposefully taken to replying with "Sorry, I don't do sparkly werewolves," and the inevitable response is always "The werewolves don't sparkle!" and it amazes me just how consistent that reaction is.
My parents were married before my elder brother's birth...but that doesn't mean I'm not more than a bit of a bastard.
I think the Twilight series captured the imagination of Gen Y2K for the same reason Bram Stoker's version of vampire as a sophisticated, foreign, noble Count captured 17th century audiences.
@@juniorjames7076 While I'm certain your basic premise is sound (i.e. that the popular vampires of an era appeal to certain cultural trends, preferences, interests, etc.), I have to question what needs, interests, or cultural trends necessitate a vampire who is centuries old going to high school and stalking young women fulfills...?!?
@phillipbernhardt-house6907 Hey, Bram Stokers' Dracula was over several centuries years old, and his victims were basically teens (Mina Harker, 18? Lucy, 19!). Vampire lore, whether 18th century or 21st Century is about SEX. A foreign/alien presence seducing (our) local,(virgin) women. It's the same story, and we are the same audience.
I may look up your book- I assume it’s written under the same as your TH-cam handle?
@@sarahenson9659 Yes...but it's ridiculously expensive--as in, even Brill might blush at these prices. There's a backdoor way to get the PDF for free, though...I don't have the link handy, but if you'd like it, let me know.
Huge vampire fan myself, so seeing you do a video on them is a dream come true
There's that. :-) I reread Dracula in my forties and was amazed at the new technology Van Helsing utilitizes. It was a totally different read.
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Many thanks!
Absolutely charming episode! I always love taking a break from your channel and coming back full force, tis bliss and bestest. :)
I was waiting for you to upload. Great work Dr. Sledge.
I am a new subscriber, and I immediately liked this video when you said "God forbid... the Twilight series" 😂 but I watched the whole video and loved it, so if I could like it twice I would!❤
'Creepy little weird way' is an excellent description of how Montague Summers wrote about things.
Reminds me of the pre-colonial vampiric or vampiric esque creatures of Pilipino/Malay/Indonesian mythology of the Pennangal/Manannagal/Aswang, as well as Mandurugo.
Even belief in Aswang have some parallels with Berserkers wearing animal skins or the Ye Nadloshi for the Dine. Used to help transform. How some scholars in Academia in the Philippines go over that some of the Aswang were actually shock troops during pre-colonial times and was essentially just made “evil” or purely malevolent by the Spanish authorities.
Damn man. That’s a lot of cross commonality!
This week’s black metal band name: Death Erection
11:00 vampire panic as a cognitohazard is my new favourite historical belief
"DeathRection" sounds like a heavy metal band.
Another fantastic video and one that covers a topic that I'm very fond of. On a separate note, I have to ask you, Dr. Sledge. When will the third installment of your Lilith series come out? That's something I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing and I hope you plan on still making it.
You always dig deep. Much like a vampire hunter…. Great video as always 🧛♀️🧛🧛♂️
What a great spooky topic! I definitely enjoyed this!
Awesome as usual... a fascinating topic.
I find it amusing that there was confusion as to how the wandering, but spectral dead could get the fresh blood back to their corporeal, grave-bound body. It's like believing that it just happens is a bridge too far.
Great episode. I really respect you and your work.
Re: the connection btwn witches and vampires: one of the more popular derivations for "vampire" ties it back to a Tartar word for witch(and I seem to recall stumbling on another which ties it to warlock, tho I can't find it now |:T), so you're probably onto something there. Related: vrykolakas of course originally meant something like "werewolf", which in itself has a bit of a connection to the concept of a "warlock" since becoming a vrykolakas was considered to be the result of living a particularly sacrilegious life.
It seems like the vampirism was “the thing” in 18th c. like (on the example) the alien abduction is today: people have some weird experiences (a lot of people!) but they don’t fit into accepted form of logic/paradigm… nevertheles there’re people who don’t discredit such events as lunacy or something jet they write papers on it.
Very informative. Thank you.
Fascinating, as always!
Right as I’m researching about “vampires” and you so happen to upload at that exact time. Probably Coincidental yet Bizarre. Thankyou again! Excellent video
A fascinating episode. ❤ 40 minutes felt like 10. The names & forms humans have given to the Other over the ages, and what the various monsters say about the cultures around them, are fascinating. I find the idea that the witch was exchanged for the vampire particularly interesting. What relation, if any, is there to tales of werewolves, their trials & hunts?
There's this minor cognitive glitch I have, where I half expect your intro to go differently, because the outro for Journey to the Microcosmos goes "Thank you for coming in this journey with us, as we explore the hidden world that surrounds us." It's not just the words; they have a similar vibe too.
Anyway, back to the Vampires...
The translations of certain vampire myths and the creature transformation being more werewolf-like has always reminded me of the story of Nebuchadnezzar being turned into a beast. That has to be one of the oldest stories of a transformation like this and has the same connotations of gaining unnatural power through blaspheming God, albeit different in that God changed him as opposed to gaining that power from another being as payment for blaspheming God or rejecting God.
This is going to be a good one.
I have to say that your presentation is engaging and hilarious! "It would make me mad too.. Don't execute me when I'm dead!" 🤣🤣🤣 I enjoy your work so much. Thank you!
This reminds me of the transporting and moving locations of the 22 mummies graves in April 3, 2021 from Cairo to Fustat. It was like they were moving the bodies in a group to see where the vampires in their spectral bodies were at elsewhere. Also worth noting the 22 mummies were and are the depiction of the 22 major arcana of tarot. But I feel the number 17 mummies is mis identified. 13:56 mentioning the mole shaped as a rose on the toe that appeared afterwards reminds me of the The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) at the MET the rose that appears in the wound on the unicorn.
I could not of said this better👌✌️
Tysm Doctor I'm so enthralled you made this episode
The manner in which you describe 18th- century advances in medical sciences as prospective Field-Theory style aggregator of diverse vampiric folklore reminds me of how Franz Cumont sees Roman assimilation of Asian astral sciences as attempt to quantify their own inchoate legends and obscure Etruscan divinatory inheritance.
The fact that "dead monster that steals the life of the living" emerges in just about every corner of the world independently is quite fascinating. Back in Taiwan, there's a taboo on embalming bodies, with the reason being that being unable to pass into the afterlife, the embalmed dead will come back and start feeding on the life force of its living kin, but only its living kin. So rather than simply being a scary story about the returning dead, it's specifically meant to discourage people from embalming their deceased family members, but rather to go with a natural burial or cremation.
It honestly makes me wonder if it has any connection to the concept of afterlife in Taiwanese culture, which itself is inherited from traditional Chinese folk beliefs, which is that the dead rely on food and money, just like the living, except they can only receive it from the living. This is why it's common for families in Taiwan to leave food offerings and burn paper money for their deceased family members and ancestors by extension - if they do not, their deceased relatives will become starved and impoverished in the afterlife. It puts pressure on people to both honour the deceased, and to have children of their own, so that they'll have offspring to do the same for them when they themselves pass. It's honestly kind of just like, retirement+, if you think about it.
But tying it back to the taboo on embalming out of fear of the dead coming back to feed on the living, it would be an interesting connection if the taboo on embalming bodies is in fact a result of the tradition of ancestor worship. After all, if the afterlife is simply retirement+, then it would make sense why not allowing the dead to pass on to eat food and buy things in the afterlife, that they would have to seek out sustenance in the world of the living instead. And thus become a form of life-stealing dead, a distant evolutionary relative of the modern western vampire
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Bloodborne definitely has a vampiric 1730's salon aesthetic.
Those titles just rolled off your tongue. Cool dude.
Fascinating as always. As it does appear that the Vampire remedies as described in those early Austrian military accounts seem to be well established and prevalent in the Balkans by the time of the Peace of Passarowitz, are there notable Ottoman bureaucratic accounts of these practices and myths? You did mention it briefly but I wonder if there is anything that looks more deeply into this. Was the mythology a purely of Southeastern European origin, or did it emerge from a merging of mythologies between the local and the Ottoman folklore? What role did the plagues of the preceding centuries play in the its emergence. So many questions!
That's a great question I haven't seen any documentation of it but it's surprising that it's not mentioned if it's available
@@TheEsotericaChannel It's interesting also, how the Vampire mythos as a whole follows a similar hourglass pattern that could be applied to much of the world's mythical beliefs. From an incredibly wide range of concepts it gets slowly distilled through the enlightenment until it is focused in the single point of Stoker's Dracula, before starting to expand again as the world, enthralled by Dracula seeks to dig into the origins. Similarly it seems the Abrahamic faiths played this role of bringing elements of the various belief systems into their fold and distilling them for them to then take a life of their own again in our modern and post-modern world.
Excellent videos recently Justin!
I am irresistibly reminded of Darker Than You Think, by Jack Williamson.
I read on the matter, and i never found an description in early modern times, of how revenant bite, its always more like suckling the energy or nutrens from the soft parts of the body (similiar to Boo hag, who seems to parallel the Vio Strigoi) with turbucilosis like effects.
I wonder how you feel about how World of Darkness and how they turned Caim into the first Vampire chief
My grandfather did some work as a grave digger in Sicily during the 1910's, he swore when they were digging up old graves to put the bones in the ossuary and one old grave had a preserved body still bloody, which be took to be a person who was holy, rather than a vampire, maybe he should have driven stake through it and thrown in some garlic ;-)
The saints don't decay
I have a more philosophical take on this problem. Although we can say all beliefs are somehow interconnected through the fog of antiquity, its somehow difficult that certain patterns are connected. For instance the middle stone age mother earth fetishes of Morroco and Israel/Syria do not seemlessly connect with mother earth iconography of the paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic.
The issue of death and demarcation of the said boundary. In the latter half of the third millenium BCE, long after the advent of writing we see tales begin to emmerge. Of these, the most popular tales concern two groups of gods; the dying and rising gods and the mystical god of sages. The first is of particular note because a seeming old god, decides to take a trip to the underworld. In this journey, her clothing, icons of her power, are the price of admission. When these items are removed, she is dead, hung on a hook. This death jas a consequence on the earth, she represents the bloom of life, and so the seasons don't cycle (and beer isnt made, so very uosetting to the gods). And so it is agreed the goddess must be returned at a price, her acolyte is sent down. But then she finds her husband mocks her power, so she sends the demigod down for six months and his sister for six minths, tag taeming each other.
What we learn from this story is that
1. Even gods, going to the grave, are stripped of their power, the residue is like meat on a hook.
2. The coming back from the grave demands a blood price, that for something to reverse its fate another must accelerate his fate. This notion maybe a reference of the cycle of life, it begins with a seed, it grows, blooms, seeds and dies. After death it rots and becomes dirt, only to feed the growth of the next generations.
3. And so the delimna that is created is that things that are reanimated are like a tax on those that surround them.
One of the things that humans faced during the neolithic, particularly in the early and middle neolithic europe was the instability of the system. Communities would grow in a region, and then suddenly crash. They would start somewhere else and crash. Sumer was a major innivation because it survival mechanism started in the foothils of Anatolia and this was a continuous supply of nutrients. But they lacked metals and the process of trading for metals brought all kinds of people into their civilization, peoples who did experience crashes. Ishtar appears to have come from such a group.
So that the telling of tells of demons, and evil spirits, spirits of death were likely associated in cultures as reasoning for why bad things happen. It may also be a survival mechansim to select out people as a cause to basically cull the population to fit the supply of nutrients.
Excellent vid!! 👍
Nice hearing the shout out to Atun Shei!
Thank you for NOT including Montague Sommers
Thank you for this. 🐍⭐️
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You could hear the shatter in justin's voice when he mentioned twilight. Truely, a horror xD
It's an underappreciated thriller. Both Bella and Edward don't really love each other. They're just a predator and a prey who deluded themselves that what they feel is love. It's especially obvious from Edward's perspective who can't seperate blood lust from just normal lust
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 somw may argue it looks very similar to a stalkhome syndrom (no idea how to spell that correctly xD)
I truly enjoy listening to your videos. Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
“Attack at the jugular “ ISWYDT
I feel like this is all testament to the notion that people love digging up the dead and checking on their grisly decomposition, and this is a weird reason to do it.
Great essay!
is there going to be a livestream soon?
Soon-ish
@@TheEsotericaChannel oh boy!
“Lookin’ at YOU, Foucault …”
Thank you.
I’m really pumped for this one.
Alright.
We need a vampire shirt with a sparkling "JUICY!" tagline.
Any good books you would recommend on the occult (as a whole) and / or about the history of vampires?
When I was a child going to Catholic School, I picked up an old book in the book sale at Marci Gras celebration. It was a Children’s book describing demons, and almost fairytales about demons, or Faustian enchantment. I recall that the text was written by a “Brother “, but I lost the book along with the rest of my personal collection of books through a move my family made due to my father’s transfer to another city. Are you familiar with any book of this kind?
Need to read some.... I agree
I think you'd be chuffed to know that Andy was at one point kicking around the idea of having the Witchfinder General team up with a Jesuit priest to fight Dracula. Too early to throw a bunch of French Cartesian vampire hunters into the fray, alas...
Your Channel is Very Professional and Informative.
I would like to know where the book of the Dead is ?
Thought I watched it here before.
Anyway I'm waiting for my rent rebate check, and I plan to support You by purchasing some of The Cool Merch. 🦉
Thanks Again.
It's amazing to hear how the people of yesteryear grappled with the obvious implications that the existence of something like vampires would have on their paradigm. I can only imagine how fascinated and at odds with their own understanding of the universe the researchers of today would be if the dead just began rising from their graves.
Taking a shot every time Dr Sledge says quasi 🥴🍻
When many people "see" things isn't that called "foli a plusiers"? Great episode and Happy All Hallow's Eve!
Fascinating. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thanks
I read a lot of Anne Rice as a kid. Hence, I started using SPF every day when I was 15. I recommend this for everyone. The SPF. Vampires optional.
What's the best modern printing of the Calmet work to buy?
Outstanding. Thanks.
Arnaut Pavle has his own eponymous Finnish black metal band now. Take that, Lestat.
Yes!!
I find a big similarity between vampires and the Algonquin wendigo legend
Vampiric Erection is a great band name