You want a new rabbit whole of traditionally fanciful stuff to go down.
The Austrian Army and Austrian Medical Corps right about the turn of the 18th century filed extensive field reports on the phenomenon of Vampires within recently captured territory they got from the Ottomans in Serbia. After a rash of suspicious Deaths and requests for assistance from their new subjects.
In fact the earliest usage of the term in Western Lexicons. Traces explicitly to the Austrian reports.
You want a new rabbit whole of traditionally fanciful stuff to go down.
The Austrian Army and Austrian Medical Corps right about the turn of the 18th century filed extensive field reports on the phenomenon of Vampires within recently captured territory they got from the Ottomans in Serbia. After a rash of suspicious Deaths and requests for assistance from their new subjects.
In fact the earliest usage of the term in Western Lexicons. Traces explicitly to the Austrian reports.