{"product_id":"before-nosferatu","title":"Before Nosferatu","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHistorical Records of Vampires and Blood Drinking Corpses in Central Europe (1488-1742)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before vampires entered literature and film, they were not creatures of fiction, but a serious problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the towns and villages of early modern Central Europe, the dead did not always remain at rest. Graves were opened. Bodies were found unnaturally preserved, their mouths and noses stained with blood, their limbs still flexible. Villagers reported illness, suffocation, and nocturnal visitations. In response, theologians, physicians, and magistrates were called upon to investigate this unexplained terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat they left behind was a rare collection of real cases preserved in German, Silesian, Moravian, and Habsburg texts on vampires, revenants, and mysterious but widespread nocturnal assault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore Nosferatu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents thirteen primary vampire documents from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, drawn from the German-speaking and Habsburg world. It includes \u003ci\u003eDracole Waide\u003c\/i\u003e, the seminal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagia Posthuma\u003c\/i\u003e, the Silesian horror case of Johann Cuntz, \u003ci\u003eVisum et Repertum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– the military report on the vampire epidemic of Medvedia – and a series of eighteenth-century dissertations on ‘blood sucking corpses’. These texts trace the emergence of the vampire as a phenomenon that challenged the boundaries between life and death, nature and the supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePositioned at the crossroads of folklore, demonology, and early science, these writings reveal a world in which the dead could act and the living were forced to respond. Carefully translated and presented with scholarly annotations, this volume offers direct access to the original sources behind one of the most enduring and misunderstood figures in European culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a mythology of vampires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is their true history…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54649301565779,"sku":"9789492355782","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/Cover_nosferatu1.jpg?v=1787312312","url":"https:\/\/global.vamzzz.com\/products\/before-nosferatu","provider":"VAMzzz Global Occult Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}