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Vampires: Do They Exist?
By Colin Wilson.
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Colin Wilson gives, to begin with, instances of documented cases, from region nrear Belgrade - Transylvania? -, most of which involve inspecting buried dead and finding them indicated, rather opposite.
Does cremation prevent the occurrence? Hopefully so.
"After the examination had taken place, the heads of the vampires were out off by the local gypsies and then burned along with the bodies, after which the ashes were thrown into the river Morava. The decomposed bodies, however, were laid back in their own graves. ... "
"As we study this strange account (which is admittedly difficult to do without skipping), there is an obvious temptation to dismiss it as a farrago of peasant superstition. Yet this is no secondhand tale of absurd horrors; the three doctors were officers in the army of Charles VI, Emperor of Austria – that newly emerging power that was succeeding the Holy Roman Empire. They were thoroughly familiar with corpses, having been serving in the army that had fought the Turks since 1714 and that defeated them four years later.
"A brief sketch of the historical background may clarify the emergence of vampires in the first half of the eighteenth century. For more than four centuries the Turks had dominated eastern Europe, marching in and out of Transylvania, Walachia, and Hungary and even conquering Constantinople in 1453. Don John of Austria defeated them at the great sea battle of Lepanto (1571), but it was their failure to capture Vienna after a siege in 1683 that caused the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. During the earlier stages of this war between Europe and Turkey, the man whose name has become synonymous with vampirism – Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler – struck blow after blow against the Turks, until they killed and beheaded him in 1477."
Colin Wilson gives a brief biography of Vlad Tapes, known as Dracula. He goes on to mention varios cases across Europe, both continent and U.K., and one factor common us the ceasing of disturbance after cremation. Thereafter Wilson digresses, discussing poltergeists, possession, and even a case of a spirit taking over a body of a small boy and reviving, but claiming the identity of the spirit and proving its truth; thus last one is called reincarnation by the original author, and it occurred in India, but Colin Wilson names it as possession; technically Wilson is closer to correct - since reincarnation involves a completely new life, not taking over body of someone dead at the same time.
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December 21, 2021 - December 21, 2021.
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