Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In 1645, a Greek scholar living in Rome, Leo Allatius, described a creature feared by the villagers of his homeland: the vrykolakas. A dead man who walks by night and comes back to torment his own family, because he was buried without the last rites. Only fire can destroy him.
For two centuries, epidemics and unexplained deaths within the same household kept the belief alive. Every new body buried without the proper rites risked becoming another one. How did this village panic turn into the vampire in evening dress of novels and films?
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- 2The dead man who asked for his shoes
- 3The disease behind the legend
- 4The vampire becomes an aristocrat
- 5Fear wears many names
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary7 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
