Treatise on the Apparitions of Angels, Demons and Spirits
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Treatise on the Apparitions of Angels, Demons and Spirits, as well as on Ghosts and Vampires in Hungary, Moravia, Bohemia and Silesia. With original documents from the first vampire investigations attached. Comp. and after. S. Shargorodsky. - B.m.: Salamandra P.V.V., 2013. - 338 p., ill. — (Gemma magica: Materials and research on the history of magic and the occult: New series, issue I.) — PDF. For the first time in almost 150 years, the legendary book returns to the reader. This is a treatise by the learned Benedictine abbot O. Calmet, dedicated to the phenomena of angels, demons and spirits, ghosts and vampires. From the pages of Calmet's work, written in the first half of the 18th century, ghosts and demons, visionaries and sorcerers, vampires and revenants emerge. The book of Abbot Calmet became the most famous in Europe in the 18th–19th centuries. a vampirological treatise and an inexhaustible source of literary incarnations of vampires. The afterword reveals the views of Calme the vampireologist against the backdrop of the vampirological debates of the era and the vampire epidemic in Western Europe, as well as the history of the book in Europe and Russia. The treatise is accompanied by original protocols and other documents translated into Russian for the first time , related to investigations into cases of vampirism in the first decades of the 18th century, which gave rise to both vampire fever and ideas about vampires reflected in high and popular culture.
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Огюстен Кальме
- Language
- Russian
- Translator
- Сергей Михайлович Шаргородский