Positive statements went the round of the village that the dead man was still up to all kinds of mischief, beating people in the night, breaking down doors, unroofing houses, shaking windows. The matter became serious. Many of the inhabitants were so thoroughly frightened and panic-stricken as to flee; while those who remained nearly lost self control. They debated, they fasted, they made processions through the village, they sprinkled the doors of the houses with holy water, they speculated as to whether mass had been properly mild, and the heart properly burned. At length they resolved to burn the body itself; they collected plenty of wood, pitch, and tar, and carried out their plan. Tournefot (who had found it necessary to be cautious as to expressing his incredulity) states that no more was heard of the supposed vampire.     In the year 1725, on the borders of Hungary and Transylvania, a vampire story arose, which was renewed afterwards in a noteworthy way. A peasant of Madveiga, named Arnold Paul, was crushed to death by the full of a wagon load of hay. Thirty days afterwards, four persons died, with all the symptoms (according to popular belief) of their blood having been sucked by vampires. Some of the neighbors remembered having heard Arnold say that he had often been tormented by a vampire ; and they jumped to the conclusion that the passive vampire had now become active. This was in accordance with a kind of formula or theorem on the subject ; that a man who, when alive, has had his blood sucked by a vampire, will, after his death, deal with other persons in like manner. The neighbors

exhumed Arnold Paul, drove a stake through the heart, cut off the head, and burned the body. The bodies of the four persons who had recently died were treated in a similar way, to make surety doubly sure. Nevertheless even this did not suffice. In 1732, seven years after these events, seventeen persons died in the village near about one time. The memory of the unlucky Arnold recurred to the villagers ; the vampire theory was again appealed to ; he was believed to have dealt with the seventeen as he had previously dealt with the four ; and they were therefore disinterred, the heads cut off, the hearts staked, the bottles burned, and the ashes dispersed. One supposition was that Arnold had vamperized some cattle, that the seventeen villagers had eaten of the beef, and had fallen victims in consequence. —This affair attracted much attention at the time. Louis the Fifteenth directed his ambassador at Vienna to make inquiries in the matter. Many of the witnesses attested an oath that the disinterred bodies were full of blood, and exhibited few of the usual symptoms of death ; indications which the believers in vampires stoutly maintained to be always present in such cases. This has induced many physicians to think that real cases of catalepsy or trance were mixed up with the popular belief, and were supplemented by a large allowance of epidemic fanaticism.     Mr. Pashley, in his Travels in Crete, states that when he was at the town of Askylo, he asked about the vampires or katakhanadhes, as the Cretans called them—of whose existence and doings he had head many recitals, stoutly