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Advisory Service on Vampires and Vampirism

Monday, 23 February 2009

The Kirklees Mystery (West Yorkshire)

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. “It may have been because it was hot and sunny but when I turned into the long drive to Lady Armytage’s home it was hard to believe the g...

A Powerful Prayer Against Evil

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. . A powerful prayer (see below in its original entirety), written by Pope Leo XIII in 1888, was incorporated into the Romano Rituali in 1...

Preparation for Exorcism

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. . The priest delegated by the Ordinary to perform this office should first go to confession or at least elicit an act of contrition, and, ...

Opposing the Diabolical

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. . “Priests in general believe very little in the extraordinary action of Satan. If a bishop proposes to them to do the exorcism, they are...
Sunday, 22 February 2009

True Horror: Vampires (Discovery)

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. Seán Manchester ― True Horror: Vampires . In a letter dated 10 June 2005, Discovery Networks Europe have explained that the programme-ma...
Saturday, 21 February 2009

Lord Byron, Polidori and The Vampyre

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. . John William Polidori's story, The Vampyre , was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly magazine. Much to both his and By...

Countess Báthory and Count Dracula

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. . Countess Erzsébet Báthory (7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) aka the "Blood Countess" and the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice...
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My principal interest of vampirism falls within a more general fascination with the supernatural. To quote Seán Manchester (who quotes another vampire expert in holy orders): "Down the ages there has been no dispute between those who studied this phenomenon that a vampire is a predatory demon of the worst kind imaginable. Montague Summers, that vampirologist and author of an earlier generation, put it succinctly: 'Throughout the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire.' Summers reminds us: 'There is no more terrible tradition that that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk must rid themselves of this hideous pest.' Demons are certainly threatening; yet among that legion the most dreaded of them is undoubtedly the vampire."
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