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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Letters from Temeswar report the revival of vampire superstitions in the Banat region, where locals believe dead bodies rise to suck blood and turn victims into vampires, leading to practices like staking and decapitation. Attributed to ignorance and ongoing calamities causing panics.
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The common People's Notion of Vampires is this, that dead Bodies rise out of their Graves and suck the Blood of People asleep; after which they conclude, that the Persons suck'd become in their turn Vampires; and to prevent any ill Effects from Bodies that are suspected to be of this Sort, they drive a Stake through the Heart, and cut off the Head.
These superstitious Follies are suppos'd to arise not only from the Ignorance of the Inhabitants of the Banat, but to the Calamities it at present suffers, which occasions Panicks to prevail.
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Temeswar
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Letters from Temeswar report revival of vampire beliefs from four or five years ago among common people in Banat; notion that dead bodies rise, suck blood from sleeping people, turning them into vampires; prevention by driving stake through heart and cutting off head; follies due to ignorance and current calamities causing panics.