Transcript Where do Vampires Come from? The Balkans and the Ottoman Empire.

Where do Vampires Come from?
The Balkans and the Ottoman Empire
Philip Rorh, Dissertatio Historico-Philosophica de
Masticatione Mortuorum (1679)
Actual events? In Hungary and Venice…
Erzsébet Báthory and Vlad Tsepes
Propaganda?
Tuberculosis:
Keats and Chopin
Porphyria and Syphilis:
George III and
the Earl of Rochester
Antoine Wiertz, “The Hasty Burial” (1865)