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Dom Calmet's treatise on vampires
In 1746, the Benedictine abbot Augustin Calmet, of Senones in Lorraine, published a treatise on apparitions and the vampires of Hungary and Moravia, a European bestseller.
1746 CE · 48.40, 6.98 · status: official
The account
Calmet gathered reports of revenants from Serbian and other cases and weighed them cautiously; Voltaire mocked the book.