Ep. 6 - The Wild World of Victorian Vampires
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the wild world of Victorian vampires. She'll discuss vampire panic and vampire autopsies of the 1800s, real vampires - or at least, folks who were believed to be real vampires, and the inspirations for everyone's favorite vampire, Dracula.
References for today's episode:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Eng...
www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/his...
www.queensu.ca/gazette/storie...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_We...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_...
www.irishcentral.com/roots/hi...
lithub.com/on-the-victorian-s...
The "I've crossed oceans of time" line is just EPIC!
I share your obsession with everything Victorian, and when you add Vampires to the mix, perfect!
Got up thos morning and saw your new podcast in my subs. Great way to start Monday, breakfast with vampires and "My Victorian Nightmare".
@@guyvanarsdall7686 awwww, thank you! I had a lot of fun making this one 😆
It's amazing that so many people survived the Victorian era! I can't even imagine drinking the ashes of my dead family members. Thank god for germ theory. Fantastic podcast, Genevieve! Delightfully gory and horrifying history!
Thank you!
I love your podcast and your voice is perfect.
Wow so glad I found this! Horror stories and Victorian times are my absolute favorites! Well done and fabulous descriptions ❤
Ooooooo I love this so much. All those darkened drawing rooms and the quiet nights broken only by the whispers of arsenic laden wallpaper, plotting….sorry, I had a moment there. This was such an entertaining video, you paint such vivid pictures with your narration. People lived with such an undercurrent of fear!
When Dante Gabriel Rossetti had his late wife Lizzie Siddal dug up, so he could retrieve a book of poetry, there was gossip around the fact that she apparently looked very flushed and intact. She died through a laudanum overdose, I can’t help wondering if that’s why she was fairly “lively” looking. (I’m longing to say “pickled” but I’ll go to hell if I do😂)
I loved this. The whole Victorian mood is just so lush. Wonderful video!
Aww, thank you honey! So happy to have you as a listener!
@@myvictoriannightmare you’re very welcome! Enjoying these immensely🤗
Another wonderful episode!! I especially like the framing device you used for the Mercy Brown scenes. I felt like we were a pair of gossiping time travelers!
Hahaha! Thanks! I thought I'd have some fun with that.
Your storytelling techniques in this episode were amazing! And you sounded like you really enjoyed narrating these stories, which really contributes to the listerners' experience. Definitely managed to grab my attention and made me drop my chores 😅 Amazing stuff 👏
Aww, thank you! I do really enjoy the topics and hope that other people enjoy them as much as I do. Thank you for letting me know that you did!
A very interesting episode! I've always had a soft spot for Mercy Brown and am always happy to hear people share her story. "There's no evidence that Dracula was based on Vlad the Impaler" other than sharing the same name and the two coming from the same region, you mean? There's definitely a lot of room to debate how much inspiration Stroker took from Vlad, but there's certainly some. I believe there's a story about how Stroker found the name Dracula in a library book and underlined it repeatedly? Might be just be a story though. Interestingly, some people claim that Bathory was innocent and the stories people told about her tormenting girls was just her attempting non-traditional methods of trying to heal them, and she was convicted because of people misunderstanding what she was trying to do and because there were people around her who would benefit from her getting locked up. It seems an awful far stretch to call her innocent but there were people who benefited from her being locked up, so it's worth bringing up.
I really enjoyed this! New sub here x
As it comes to the porphyria stuff, I'm pretty sure Stoker's Dracula was not, actually, harmed by sunlight. There is a scene where the gang jump him with knives in an empty house during the day, and Drac was out and about for a walk beforehand, basically. The sunlight was detrimental, but only insofar as it cut him off from (some of) his powers. It didn't burn him, and he ended up escaping handily enough. As such, that part of the porphyria connection is likely not true.
The light killing a vampire seems to be somewhat more related to that film, Nosferatu.
I love the bit about the Irish inspiration for Dracula, though. It makes a lot of sense, as the character does have a lot in common with Fae.
The funny thing with Dracula is that... I like the book, and the characters are great and interesting and it's all quite nice. The bromanceship between all the men (and Mina) is really, surprisingly wholesome. But oh boy, are there far far less wholesome bits too.
This sounds very similar to some of the plot of Chappelwaite. Great show about vampires and a tuberculosis community in Maine - based on a short story "Jerusalem's Lot" (not Salem's Lot, but connected) by Stephen King.
I'd love it if you did more on Irish historical stories and folklore. Even growing up here I didn't hear some of those stories and the way you told them was fascinating.
You know, I wish I knew more about Irish folklore and stories myself. I might do a separate podcast of spooky bedtime stories - if I do, I'll certainly include Irish ones!
@myvictoriannightmare I would love that, I'm particularly interested in scary or unpleasant true stories of things that happened, especially in Ireland, since I'm from here, it's of particular interest to me, but any stories of that type from anywhere would be interesting to listen to. I'm really enjoying your videos, you're really great at narrating them in a way that draws you in.
I definitely wouldn't have survived the Victorian era!
This is my new favorite channel, thanks so much for your hard work!
If you don't mind, could you be a little more specific about what it means for a body to 'move around' as it decomposes? This is something I haven't heard before. Is it concerning...um....wet or dry issues?🤢
I'm only halfway through the video so if you explain somewhere in the back half, feel free to ignore the question. I'll get there.
OK, are you ready? When we decompose, different parts of our body can become mummified faster than other parts - for example, skin may dry out before internal organs. Ligaments and muscles will also shrink and contract. This process can make bodies contort, and in poor Mercy's case, even turn over, or shift around inside a coffin. Mind you, it's also possible that Mercy in her coffin may very well have been taken down a bumpy road to the cemetery and she was physically moved. This is, of course, also possible. I'm not a forensic scientist tho, and I'm sure there are many other possible explanations.
@@myvictoriannightmare That is an excellent and imformative answer, thank you so much for taking the time! You may not be a forensic scientist but you certainly think like one. I'm really enjoying your channel.
I think the accent is on the first syllable - EP-iss-toe-larry - but what does that say about Larry? 🤔