The Terrifying Real History Behind Vampires
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Vampire folklore began long before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in fears that the dead could return to spread illness, torment families and drain life from the living. This story traces Slavic and Balkan vampire beliefs, the eighteenth-century Serbian investigations of Petar Blagojević and Arnold Paole, and the Mercy Brown case in nineteenth-century New England. It reveals how disease, decomposition and grief created a monster that still refuses to die.
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