Folklore
Traditions, first attestations and the changing forms of beliefs over time.
Timelines
Events gathered from atlas entries, ordered by year and linked to their source entry. The tracks distinguish tradition, works and material history.
Cross-reference
21 events · 38 entries One history, many tracks
Literature
Texts and publications that established or reshaped narrative motifs.
Cinema
Releases and key points in the documented history of cinema.
Versions
Edits, restorations, dubbing and other stages in the material life of works.
History
Historical contexts and events cited in entries, kept distinct from legends.
Scholarship
Critical work and research that change how sources are read.
- 1198 History
William of Newburgh collects stories of the returning dead
DOC: Documented - 1725 History
The case of Petar Blagojević at Kisiljevo appears in the Viennese press
DOC: Documented - 1732 History
The Visum et Repertum report on the Medvedja case
PRIM: Primary source - 1732 History
In Serbian cases, alleged vampires attack relatives and neighbours
PRIM: Primary source - 1746 Scholarship
Dom Calmet publishes his treatise on apparitions and vampires
DOC: Documented - 1819 Literature
John Polidori’s The Vampyre: the aristocratic vampire emerges
DOC: Documented - 1827 Literature
Mérimée publishes La Guzla, a collection of fabricated Illyrian songs featuring vampires
DOC: Documented - 1835 Literature
Pushkin publishes Songs of the Western Slavs, including the poem «Vurdalak»
ATTR: Critical attribution - 1839 Literature
A. K. Tolstoy writes «La Famille du Vourdalak» in French
ATTR: Critical attribution - 1884 Literature
A. K. Tolstoy’s The Family of the Vourdalak appears in Russian
DOC: Documented - 1884 Literature
The story is first published in Russian translation
DOC: Documented - 1884 Literature
Tolstoy makes family contagion the story’s central idea
DOC: Documented - 1897 Literature DOC: Documented
- 1960 Cinema
La maschera del demonio: Bava’s first credited film, distributed in the US by AIP
DOC: Documented - 1963 Cinema
Bava brings the Vurdalak to the screen in I tre volti della paura
DOC: Documented - 1963 Cinema
Italian release of I tre volti della paura
DOC: Documented - 1963 Cinema
Gorca calls his family to him in I tre volti della paura
DOC: Documented - 1964 Versions
US release as Black Sabbath, re-edited and re-dubbed by AIP
DOC: Documented - 1969 Cinema
A band from Birmingham adopts the name Black Sabbath
DICH: Stated by the author - 1972 Cinema
Giorgio Ferroni’s La notte dei diavoli returns to Tolstoy’s story
ATTR: Critical attribution - 2007 Scholarship
Tim Lucas publishes the monograph «Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark»
DOC: Documented
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- 1839 Literature
A. K. Tolstoy writes «La Famille du Vourdalak» in French
ATTR: Critical attribution - 1884 Literature
The story is first published in Russian translation
DOC: Documented - 1960 Cinema
La maschera del demonio: Bava’s first credited film, distributed in the US by AIP
DOC: Documented - 1963 Cinema
Italian release of I tre volti della paura
DOC: Documented - 1964 Versions
US release as Black Sabbath, re-edited and re-dubbed by AIP
DOC: Documented - 1969 Cinema
A band from Birmingham adopts the name Black Sabbath
DICH: Stated by the author - 1972 Cinema
Giorgio Ferroni’s La notte dei diavoli returns to Tolstoy’s story
ATTR: Critical attribution - 2007 Scholarship
Tim Lucas publishes the monograph «Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark»
DOC: Documented