We have all heard stories of witches and vampires. In the past, ignorance and superstition made people think that vampires and witches were real, and a brutal struggle broke out to capture them; and today, science will provide people with scientific explanations of such weird phenomena in completely different ways.
Let us now trace back two of the many famous events that took place from the end of the 17th century to the 18th century, and analyze and study the truth of the facts and the misunderstandings that arise from it. Five of the two incidents were “spread” incidents of vampires in the Balkans, and the other was the pursuit of Salem witches in New England.
The true face of the vampire phenomenon
The vampires shown and described in the famous novel “Dracula” by Irish writer Bram Stoker and in many movies From today’s perspective, it is a completely illusory character. However, in the 18th century, a century considered to be very rational in history, the “spread” of the vampire phenomenon has occurred many times in the Balkans. These incidents have been seen in the newspapers of the major newspapers at that time, and the whole of Europe has been heated up. Alarming. Many people blindly believe that those things are true, and only a few philosophers resist it as a product of superstition. It was not until some historical and scientific analyses conducted not long ago that the truth behind these events was clarified and made public.
c1();
According to the tradition of western countries, the vampires are known to refer to those who have died but are resurrected at night. They wandered around to find the victims in order to suck their blood, which turned the victims into vampires. When the vampire was lying in the tomb, his body was intact, and once found, he would be destroyed by people to prevent him from returning to the world. Inspired by the myths and folklore of vampires in Eastern Europe, Juan Gomez-Alonso, a neurologist at the Xcelor Hospital in Vigo, Spain, analyzed this phenomenon from a medical perspective. He pointed out that there are striking similarities between rabies and the hypothetical vampire phenomenon. Just as European newspapers and newspapers reported the “spreading and epidemic” of vampires in villages in the Balkans, reports of dogs, wolves and other wild beast rabies also appeared in the Hungarian news. But a series of misjudgments caused by a lack of common sense to recognize the symptoms of rabies, combined with completely wrong associations, led rural residents in the Balkans to believe that they were victims of vampires.
c2();
Before we associate the rabies disorder with the vampire myth, let’s try to analyze the errors that occurred in identifying the disorder. From the winter solstice of 1731 to the spring of 1732, in the village of Medveja near Belgrade, a soldier died soon after returning from Greece. Before his death, he said that he had been bitten by a vampire while in Greece. Soon after, many villagers in the village claimed to see him haunting at night and complained that they feltI was exhausted. In this way, the body of the soldier was dug out of the grave, and traces of the blood sucked by the vampire were found on the body. As a remedy, people put a stake on his heart. Despite such “preventive” measures, a few years later, the vampire phenomenon continued to spread and spread in the village, followed by multiple incidents of grave digging and corpse excavation, and 14 bodies were found. “Vampire Trace” was later burned. The fundamental error of this crazy behavior is that people do not know that the corpses will also show this sign under the influence of natural conditions, thus equating these corpses with the vampires who are supposed to find the victims after the resurrection. Shortly after these incidents, the French priest Augustine Carmel analyzed this phenomenon in a paper in which he compared the “vampire in the grave” with the so-called “wandering around” that the villagers claimed to see or dream about “Vampire” to distinguish. He pointed out that there may be a low temperature or the so-called “saponification” process in the humid area during the preservation of the corpse. In this case, the subcutaneous tissue will be converted into a wax-like substance, which can keep the corpse for many years. .