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Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Friday, October 29, 2021

Vampires and Vampirism Resource Page

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How A Certain Monk Was Restored From Excommunication After His Death   The Grave Robber and the Living Dead Girl   A Case of Vampirism in ...
Friday, October 8, 2021

How Lord Byron's Trip to Greece Brought the Modern Vampire to the West

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When Lord Byron was 21 years old, he decided to undertake the customary upper class Grand Tour. The Grand Tour was the 17th- and 18th-centur...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Trailer for "Vampir", a New Film Inspired By 18th Century Serbian Vampire Tales

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Vampir (2021) is a soon to be released art house horror film directed by Branko Tomovic. According to the description: "The story take...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

St. Kosmas the Aitolos on Vampirism and the Devil

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    When we hear the word "devil", it is he who was once the first among angels; it is he who moves people to pride, to murder, ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

"On Those Who Burn Vampires" (A Greek Orthodox Christian Manual from 1867)

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    In 1867 a popular 82 page manual for Greek Orthodox Priests was published to aid them in the administration of Holy Confession. This bo...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

The Authenticity of an Eerie 1932 Photograph from Mount Athos of Two Dead Excommunicated Monks

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By John Sanidopoulos In the monasteries of Mount Athos, when a monk dies, they are buried for three years until they are completely decomp...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

A Case of Vampirism in the Life of Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos

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The following story is one we often encounter in stories that take place in Greece during the Turkish occupation - a sinner who is excommun...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

"The Vroucolacas: A Tale" by James K. Paulding (full text)

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James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. He ...
Monday, October 21, 2019

On the Belief in Vampires in Greece During the Ottoman Occupation (An Essay From 1844)

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The Vroucalaca (Published in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction   on Saturday, February 24, 1844) The Vampire, of which...
Friday, October 18, 2019

The Exhumation of a Vampire on the Island of Mykonos in 1700: An Eye-Witness Account

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

How the Prolific Serial Killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory Fits Into a Feast of the Orthodox Church

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Portrait of Countess Elizabeth Bathory In August of 1581 the Russian city of Pskov was held under siege by the Polish king. On August 27...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Saint George and the Powers of Witches and Vampires

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“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will ha...
Monday, April 23, 2018

The Chapel of Saint George the Vampire in Thymari of Argolis

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Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 in Cambridge, England – 9 November 1957, in Athens, Greece) was an English archaeologist. He was educat...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Feast of Saint Andrew in Romania - Night of the Vampires

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Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Romania, is seen by Romanians as the Apostle who Christianized the lands north of the Danube, and accordi...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

How A Certain Monk Was Restored From Excommunication After His Death

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By John Moschos ( The Spiritual Meadow , Ch. 192) The Story of a Certain Monk of the Monastery of the Divine Pope Gregory (590-604), How ...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

A Case of Vampirism in the Lives of the Saints?

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By John Sanidopoulos The English author and clergyman Montague Summers published a heavily researched book on vampires in 1928 titled The ...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Experiences With Greek Vampires (An Account from 1899)

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JOHN ROBERT SITLINGTON STERRETT (1851-1914) was an American archaeologist, a Classical scholar, and a professor at Cornell University in It...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Heretics as Vampires and Demons in Russia

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Title: "Heretics as Vampires and Demons in Russia" Author: Felix J. Oinas Source: The Slavic and East European Journal , Vol. 2...
Monday, October 23, 2017

A Modern Greek Vampire Tale

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Greeks believed that a human could become a Vrykolakas after death by having lived an ungodly life, being buried on unconsecrated ground, b...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Vampire of the Greek Island of Lesvos

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Rusted iron spikes pierce the neck, pelvis, and ankle of this skeleton, found in a Turkish cemetery on the Greek island of Lesbos (Hector ...