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Scienti Snaps, v. 1, issue 2, Spring 1938
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4 Page SCIENTI-SNAPS decomposition. A stake was driven through his heart; water and blood gushed from the corpse as it twisted, screamed, and groaned. The body was burnt and thereafter the region was free from mysterious deaths. Mere Fancy? Perhaps yes; perhaps no. Not long ago the newspapers reported the story of an old man in Germany, dead for two hundred years, yet in a perfect state of preservation. Add this to the story of Fritz Haarman, the German mass murderer, and you will have a tale similiar to that of old De Morieve. Of course Fritz Haarman was a living man; he could not have been a genuine vampire, but may of his victims were bitten to death. Furthermore it is rumored that the Institute of Psyche Research in London has records of many actual cases. China, ancient inscrutable China, has slightly different ideas on the appearance of a vampire. Their conception of the monster pictures him with long, silvery or greenish-white hair. Dr. de Groot, a famous scientist, believes that this belief may have arisen from fungi which thrives on cotton grave clothes. Charles Fort, on the other hand, says that all scientist are blind and reject anything taht they cannot understand. Such may or may not be the case. Montague Summers calls attention to the fact that all ancient peoples offered blood to their gods. This merely throws us deeper and deeper into vampirism. Even science doesn't shut its ears entirely to the belief. It admits that certain people are "psychic sponges" and drain the vitality of persons with whom they come in contact. This is really a form of mental vampirism. Despite the large number of works written on the subject, the investigation of vampirism is far from complete. It is extremely doubtful that with our so called "civilized" prejudices, the question will ever be satisfactorily explained. THE END
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4 Page SCIENTI-SNAPS decomposition. A stake was driven through his heart; water and blood gushed from the corpse as it twisted, screamed, and groaned. The body was burnt and thereafter the region was free from mysterious deaths. Mere Fancy? Perhaps yes; perhaps no. Not long ago the newspapers reported the story of an old man in Germany, dead for two hundred years, yet in a perfect state of preservation. Add this to the story of Fritz Haarman, the German mass murderer, and you will have a tale similiar to that of old De Morieve. Of course Fritz Haarman was a living man; he could not have been a genuine vampire, but may of his victims were bitten to death. Furthermore it is rumored that the Institute of Psyche Research in London has records of many actual cases. China, ancient inscrutable China, has slightly different ideas on the appearance of a vampire. Their conception of the monster pictures him with long, silvery or greenish-white hair. Dr. de Groot, a famous scientist, believes that this belief may have arisen from fungi which thrives on cotton grave clothes. Charles Fort, on the other hand, says that all scientist are blind and reject anything taht they cannot understand. Such may or may not be the case. Montague Summers calls attention to the fact that all ancient peoples offered blood to their gods. This merely throws us deeper and deeper into vampirism. Even science doesn't shut its ears entirely to the belief. It admits that certain people are "psychic sponges" and drain the vitality of persons with whom they come in contact. This is really a form of mental vampirism. Despite the large number of works written on the subject, the investigation of vampirism is far from complete. It is extremely doubtful that with our so called "civilized" prejudices, the question will ever be satisfactorily explained. THE END
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