The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-08

and every night remained till day dawn. He
showed himself IN different fOrms-sometmes
Ike wafer spaniel, sometimes like a lion or
Other terrible animal; sometimes as q man, but
sometimes land this must have been worst Of
sll) in the guise Of pretty girl, sitting at the
cures bedsidel Thus testdes Monsieur Bayer.
Sometimes the bobgoblin made an luprOar In the
house Ike cooper hopping a cask. The cure
desiring 20 have witnesses, sent for the beadle
and other chief people Of the village to bear tes-
timony.
"At last the cure had recourse TO exercising
but with no effect Despairing almost Of being
delivered from these veXatons, he provided him
self at the end Of the third year with a holy
branch on Palm Sunday also, with sword
spTinkled with holy water. The hobgOhliu was
now soon to have the worst Of il. Appearing
again (whether In the form Of q man or dog a
lion or young lady, Informant does not sta'e),
the cure nrst dashed the hoy water ia the gob-
Inns face, then smOte the being with the blessed
sword lie did this once or twice, and from that
time was no more mOlested This is attestod by
a Cspucmu monk, witness Of the greater part Of
these things, August 29, l740."
CaIdan declines 60 guarantee the truth Of all
these circumstances; the judicious reader may
make what induction he peasos from them. IL
they ave true, here, says he, Is real ghost who
eas, drinks, and speaks-gyinR tokens Of his
preeenco for three whole years without any
app atsnce of religion.
Skeptcs may seek to throw discredit upon the
narrht ons OF vampyTedOm, by urging what |
conceive 10 be the fact, that although vampires
have been seen by the thousand, have Dgen
known TO leave their graves and wAudsr about
biting and bOOdsuCking their once dearest
titnds, nevertheless no authentic information Is
available relative 10 the manner in which they
leave their graves, or the way In which they 90
back TO the same. No vampire that am aware
OF has ever been caught in the very act of coming
out OF grave, or gong back again. The Omis-
sion is not OF sort to shake the belief of any
reasonable man In the general truth of vampire
dom, knowing we'll, as all of us do know that
thpus sQudg Df Z kp "a
time, under the very noses Of people near, with
out their seeing what happens.
once explored the battlefield of Waterloo In
companionship with local guide who, during
that day of mortal strife, had been present in the
amateur capacity of a sutler or canteen- bearer,
ministering comforts TO the wounded. Gazing
from the summit of the huge mound whereon
the Belgian lion stands-allegOrical, in certain
sense, OF Belgian bravery-I looked on many a
grave and many trophied marble. Thick they
Were-ihick those graves, those trophicd
marbles and l bethought me how far more
thickly stTewn on the evening of the day of
strife must have been the writhing wounded the
shattered and CORY dead l forthwith pictured
TO myself the serried squares, belching their vol
leys at the French columns, pressing on and
sought TO reproduce the scene of men stricken
by lead or steel, and suddenly laid low. "They
tell fast enough" said at must have been an
awful sight"
"Par6lettr' interposed the guide, "you may
think 1t odd, but did not see one man fall
They would come on, and then volley, bayo-
net or cavalry charge, a tremendous noise, fire,
smoke, and ali that; and when t was over there
they would lie, just like those sheep there, Mon.
sieuri but on my honor, not one fellow did |
actually see go down."
Very well Calmet did not record and
assuredly would not wish it to DO understood that
rerenanS, he calls them Or TO be plain disre pu-
table corpses whom earth rejects, can be num-
bered by the million. He perhaps refers TO some
scores and If nobody has ever caught one of
In Nba f,F
out Of grave, what does this prove Nothing,
10 my mind, after what the guide told me at
Waterloo.
The act of munching in grave, oreven coming
out of grave, violates social proprieties, truly,
but nothing more. 1t is not every human mind,
indeed, that is strong enough, or sufficiently well
balanced, 70 look upon horrible prodigy un-
moved. If TeCeradnS as Calmet denOminates them,
were more frequent than they are, then probably
many spectators might be scared into fits or go
mad outright; but If n disreputable corpse should
get out OF its coffin, and wander about, murder
ously intent, wreaking vengeance all night biting
bloOdsucking, and going back TO its grave be fore
morning, 1t would be very serious and very
dangerous matter. This is just what vampires
do, nevertheless.
Unlike manner as skepticsl people-thc men Of
paraly zed minds SO beautifully described by Mr..
BOwitt, the paralysis having been induced by
too continuous study of what we falsely call the
inductive scences-hnd some absurd way of
accounting for, else denying altogether the best
attested facts OF pneumatology-s such as table
turning, table-dancing, spirit-rapping, spectral
writing, luminous hands, mys ical accordion play
ing, and othenmodern splritua manifestations; so
more Than one writer has attempted to explain
away the precise relations concerning dead alive
people'of all varieties. from the mastcatores of
RauffI to the Vroucolakas of the Greeks. Accord
iDgly t is argued rs already stated, that the
milder, the less extraordinary of these recitals,
are amply accounted for on the assumption Of
trance and that tie records OF pure vampyredom,
tales about dead-aliye men arising from their
tombs stalking about, blOodSucking and mur-
derirR, are based on prelension of the Greek
Church. to the effect that Mother Earth refuses to
accept aud retain in her bosom corpses OF per
who have come under orthodox excOmmunlci- l.
ton. Ii has even been accepted as tenet of faith
10y the Eastern Church, believe, that no unOr-
thOdoX corpse can possibly decay if buried in
orthodox soil. There might be something in this
view of the case, If records of dead alive people
were traceable only to authors of the plre Greek
faith but seeing that testimony from other
quarters is foTthcOming-cOnsidering that dead
alive people have been known to wander from
their tOmos in England as well as Germany-it
seems % me that the hypothesis cited falls wholly
to the ground. 1t must be conceded, however,
that yampyredom has received what we may call
its highest development in countries the people OF
which acknowledge the orthodox Greek Church.
Eastern European vampires have always been
more fierce, more murderOusly inclined, than
corresponding beings OF the west Climate may
have something 70 do with this, and perhaps
temperament,
Even on matters Of the most apparently trans
ceIdeutal kind 1t is possible TO draw practical
deductions. No harm can ever come of making
security doubly sure. | am led TO infet, then,
that If dead body, after a reasonable time OF
burial has elapsed, be still found softand pliable
ii II bleeds on puncture, and shows no signs OF
iu filling The decree OF "dlSt to dust, tnere is room
for the worst suspicious. In such case the uu-
quiet and ey-dlsposed corpse can be I'D by
adopting one Of two eXpedients. The first Is, TO
cause the grave to be beaten with a haze tWig,
the operator being II virgin not less than twenty
five years old. The second eXpedient COu 'ists in
digging the body up and burning II. Ny author
ties leave me no room 10 doubt that the first and
much simpler remedy Is lot equally eilectual
with the second; nevertheless, for som, mex
pliCable reason, the remedy of ncrematon is
always practised in lands where vampires do
most ebound. j. SCOFFEBS. NJ. b.