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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1407404" data-attributes="member: 4144">Even later than that, actually.  The incident in Exeter, RI (referred to in Lovecraft's "The Shunned House"), where a corpse was exhumed and the heart burned for fear that it was a vampire, took place in, IIRC, 1892.  That's only a bit over a century ago, and in a fairly urban area!This may be the wrong place to plug my own stuff, but I did a template for something called an atemdieb, part of whose powers were based on the old Slavonic traditions that when burning a corpse, you had to kill all the beetles and worms and such that came out of the body.  I used that and made the vermin each host to a piece of the demon that animated the corpse, which can then take up residence in another corpse.In fact, if all's cool with you, I might throw this guy up on my site as well.</blockquote>