Vampire Panic
There are many documented cases in this regard, but one of the best known and scary cases is that of young Mercy Brown. She was born in Exeter in 1873 and died at the young age of 19, due to an epidemic that caused a serious illness in his respiratory system, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, also known then as "consumption" or galloping disease.
But Mercy wasn't the only one, because before she, her family had a series of tragic deaths, the mother and little sister also died under the same symptomatology and just seven years later, Edwin, the brother, began to present the same symptoms.
Then, George Brown, the father, desperate for the curse that plagued his family, decided to send his son to Colorado to see if climate change favored the recovery of his illness and was sent there; but he returns home, without improvement, when he asks for his sister, they give him the bad news, Mercy had also been attacked by the galloping tisis, dying on January 17,1892 to
George Brown fell into despair, didn't know what to do, went to a priest, witches and healers, but nothing and no one gave him an explanation of his grief, until one day he began to hear a rumor that the people of the village were whispering, when he asked, they told him that the deaths of his relatives might have something to do with stories of vampires.
People assured him of what, he must have had a close relative who was a diabolical, cursed, bone, a vampire and who, little by little, had been attacking his family to quench his thirst for blood.
He didn't believe in such affirmations, actually it seemed an absurd idea to him, however, and how it is common for it to happen, many people began to believe that such superstitions were a reality, what caused everyone in the village to panic, that's why it's called Vampire Panic, why all the people of those places began to do crazy things for him, dread what they had to the supposed ones.
The panic was such that you could see the windows of the houses covered with wood crossed inside and outside, people carried amulets on their necks, the whole town was attending church, even new ways were created to reach certain parts of the site, as everyone was afraid to pass next to the cemetery, because this was the place where the dead people turned into vampires.
And it was thus that George Brown, despite never accepting this absurd theory, agreed to the requests that all people made of him, to exhume the bodies of his relatives.
George asked a doctor for help to accompany him to his pantheon, once there, they first opened that of the little daughter, where they only found bones and dust, then opened the mother's, there was a mummified body there that gave off a strange smell, but when they opened the tomb of Mercy Brown, both men were totally surprised, terrified to see that icy aspect of the young woman resting in his coffin, it was clear that
Unfortunately, these details only reinforced the suspicions that she was a vampire, so they immediately ripped her heart out and burned it.
Some versions tell what happened when they stabbed the knife in her chest, Mercy Brown woke up and fought the two men until they finally managed to beat her.
In other versions they say that from the ashes of the burnt heart, they created a potion for the young son George Brown to drink. However, this was not enough and he died that same year, due to the same illness, called the "consumption" disease or galloping tisis.
It took many years for the people of Rhode Island and its surroundings to begin to forget the matter, yet the stories continue to this day. On Halloween, these kinds of stories are infallible and many superstitious people still hang charms of protection on their windows and on their beds.
This case was not the only one, there were many similarly chilling events at that time, but the story of young Mercy Brown is the most famous, so much so that it is known as "the last Vampire of New England".
Fonts:
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael E. Bell
A History of Vampires in New England (Haunted America) by Thomas D' Agostino
Vampires of New England Paperback by Christopher Rondina
Vampires: a field guide to the creatures that stalk the night in Curran, Bob.
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