86 On Po;^u.l(ir Illufions. 



own kingdoirij and he can preferve a dead body 

 for any length of time, by his knowledge of the 

 true balfann. ^od in Domino non moriiur, moritur 

 in diabolo. "Jam vero divos in Juo regno diabolits 

 facere poleft. ^libus rebus homo a putredine prefer- 

 vetur^ quovis homine exa^ius novit, utpote vert bal- 

 Jami g}iarus*.{y) 



This ftrange delufion prevailed, very generally 

 among the modern Greeks^ and they knew the 

 remedy for the difturbance, which confided in 

 publicly burning the carcafc of the vroucolacas, 

 as they termed the redivivus. But the triumph of 

 tliis abfurdity was refervcd for an advanced 

 period of the eighteenth century. Somewhere 

 about the year 1730, an alarm began in Hungary, 

 of feme houfes being haunted, by perfons de- 

 ceafed, who fucked tlie blood of fome of the 

 family, during their ileep. The fufferers were 

 fenfible of this terrible operation, and commonly 

 recognized the features of the apparition : the 

 Hungarians termed thefe nofturnal vifitors. 

 Vampires. In confequence of thefe praflices, the 

 perfons fucked became weak and emaciated, the 

 corpfe of the Vampire, on the contrary, was 

 found, even after long interment, frefh, florid, 

 and full of blood ; fometimes to fuch a degree, 

 as to pour out blood from the nofe, mouth and 

 ears. This extravagance, produced by the 



* Philofoph. Sagac. cap. X. 



opprefTive 



