Month: September 2026
The Vampire Graves of Europe: Exhumations, Folklore, and Superstitions
Vampires, inconveniently for Gothic literature, did not always wear velvet. The vampire of European folklore was often something considerably less elegant: a recently deceased neighbour whose body was behaving suspiciously. Perhaps the corpse had not decomposed as quickly as expected. Perhaps blood appeared around its mouth. Perhaps several people in the village had fallen ill
Should Cemeteries Be Open to the Public for Leisure Activities?
Cemeteries are strange places. They are public, yet intensely private. They belong to cities, religious communities, institutions, and families, yet they also belong, in a less tangible sense, to the dead. They are landscapes designed to be entered but governed by an unwritten expectation that visitors should behave differently once they cross the gates. And