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How Print Helped Spread 18th-Century Vampire Tales
Key Takeaways
- Printed discussion of European vampire stories grew markedly from the late seventeenth century.
- Reports described harsh burial interventions intended to prevent the dead from returning.
- Dom Augustin Calmet’s 1746 survey became an influential work on vampires.
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