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Episode Four — Blood and the Body: The First Vampires
Cryptids Without Borders: Folklore in the Dark
Subtitle: From corpse to archetype

In this episode, Kitty examines the terrifying real-world origins of vampire panic — when communities, doctors, and officials exhumed and destroyed bodies in the belief they were undead. Explore how folklore, disease, social anxiety, and burial practices converged to create some of history’s most chilling vampire cases, and how these events evolved into the literary vampires we know today.

Highlights include:

The Serbian outbreaks of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole (1725–1732)

Habsburg Empire investigations by military surgeons and physicians

Archaeological evidence of anti-vampire burials across Eastern Europe

The rise of literary vampires from Lord Ruthven (Polidori, 1819) to Dracula (Stoker, 1897)

How vampire panic functioned as social contagion and moral enforcement

This episode traces the evolution of fear from physical threat to narrative symbol — revealing how fear travels across communities, time, and borders.

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Sources & References

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial and Death: Folklore and Reality. Yale University Press, 1988.

Summers, Montague. The Vampire: His Kith and Kin. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1928.

Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press, 1999.

Polidori, John. The Vampyre. 1819.

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.

Flückinger, Johann. “Reports on Vampirism in Hungary and Serbia.” Vienna Archives, 1732.

Hughes, William. Archaeological Evidence of Vampire Burials in Eastern Europe. European Journal of Archaeology, 2005.

Summers, Montague. Vampire Legends in Eastern Europe: Historical Accounts. 1928.

Paole, Arnold; Blagojevich, Petar. Official Reports of Vampirism in Serbia. Habsburg Empire Archives, 1726.