TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stübecke, Manuel
T1  - Schrecken der Peripherie – "Vampyre" als mehrdeutiges Grenzphänomen
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - Not only in literature there are hunting vampyres. Especially in the history of eastern europe there are a few cases of this phenomena. But it is an phenomena of borders. Military borders, borders between faith and superstition and our common knowledge. In this paper I shall examine well-known sources of cases leading toward the an edict by Maria Theresia to force the end of this superstition. The sources show that there was an existing problem at the military borders of Austro-Hungary in the 18th century. When diseases came to a village and the legends about vampires were well-known there, than brave locals exhumed the body of a suspicious deceased. And they found a dead corpse in good shape. The skin had still a fresh colour. Hair and nails seemed grown and even blood was found between mouth and nose. These descriptions can be found in many sources of vampire exhumes in historical sources. But every exhume had a danger of infecting the whole society in a village if the deceased had a disease. Even if doctors and theologians examined the cases, there was never an intention to give a proof of vampyres. The phenomena of vampyres was part of a barbaric world – far away from vienna. Today's knowledge about decay of a human body shows that the descriptions in the sources are correct at this point. A body buried in a coffin still can be in a good shape. So the history of vampyres is a history of the culture transformation of legends and the history of science, to understand what happens after someone went down to his grave.
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Vampires/Vampyres
KW  - burial rituals
KW  - history of science
KW  - Austria-Hungary
KW  - Maria Theresia
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65559
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655596
UR  - https://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/38.1.6.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 38
SP  - 106
EP  - 120
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -