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  1. ‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker.Matthew Gibson & Damian Shaw - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):787-805.
    The following article consists of an introduction by the first author, an annotated translation by the second, and then an analysis by the first, of the earliest known Scandinavian response to the Vampire phenomenon of Medvedia in 1732 by Nicolaus Boye, a state-employed physician residing in Stockholm. The translation shows that Boye’s own article, which constitutes a complete refutation of Johann Flückinger’s claims, was meticulously organised, abstracting and arguing against the major themes which he observed in the Visum et Repertum, (...)
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  • Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732).Damian Shaw & Matthew Gibson - 2024 - History of European Ideas 50 (7):1169-1186.
    One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attacked the findings from a position of scientific scepticism enshrouded with Lutheran theology in his thesis Concerning the Blood-Sucking Corpses of those so-called Vampires or People-Suckers. While he is best remembered for first proposing the incubus or nightmare of sleep paralysis as being the real cause of the superstition, (...)
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