Vampirism in the light of Jacques Vallée's theories

In this article we will try to give an explanation to a sensational and inexplicable case of vampirism that occurred in Transylvania in 1816 using some theories of the French-American ufologist Jacques Vallée, namely the existence of the dimension of Magonia, the ability of the inhabitants of Magonia to manipulate humans and the theory of the "thermostat effect".


article Giovanni Pellegrino
revision by Marco Maculotti

originally published on La Runa Study Center
cover: Remedios Varo, “Plant Architecture”, 1962

In this article we will try to give an explanation to a sensational and inexplicable case of vampirism that took place in Transylvania in 1816 using some theories of the French-American ufologist Jacques Vallée (born in 1939), namely the existence of dimension of Magonia, the ability of the inhabitants of Magonia to manipulate human beings, the theory of "thermostat effectAnd the ways in which the inhabitants of the parallel universe of Magonia would implement the aforementioned expedient.

We will use the following conceptual scheme: first we will explain this case of vampirism in detail; secondly we will present in a synthetic way the theories of Jacques Vallee, which we will use to explain the case, and finally we will try to prove that using these theories of Vallée it is possible to give an explanation both to this particular case and to the belief in the existence of vampires, a belief that lasted for a long time among the populations of many European nations.

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We have chosen this case of vampirism because it seems to us that it can hardly be considered just a legend or only the fruit of the imagination of some person in the mood for jokes or subject to hallucinations. This appearance of a vampire took place in 1816 in Romania and precisely in a village located near Cluj. What characterizes this story of vampirism is the fact that of the apparition and of the events concerning the vampire exists even a written report prepared by a nobleman who resided in a castle located near Cluj.

This report is particularly reliable because it was drawn up about a month after the end of the events, so it can be excluded that it is a legend born from the alteration of historical events that took place a long time before. The document was found by chance in the noble's library, hidden in the pages of a book. As we will see, this story is very different from most of the others since it began in a tavern in that village near Cluj and took place in front of many witnesses.

The evening had fallen for a few hours and, as always happened, a good number of people had gone to the village tavern. It seemed like an evening like any other and the patrons of the place were intent on carrying out their usual activities, when suddenly what seemed to everyone a very sinister character entered, so much so that immediately the patrons stopped their activities and concentrated their activities. attention on the mysterious character.

An absolute silence fell in the tavern and this silence turned into real collective terror when the sinister character said he was a vampire and, to prove he wasn't kidding, he showed off his sharp canines by approaching various patrons with his mouth open. But the worst was yet to come for one of the patrons, who was sitting at a table drinking a glass of wine with friends. The vampire approached him but instead of just showing him his teeth he bit him on the neck. The wound was not very deep and did not cause concern. However the vampire told him that he would die within a few days and after uttering this threat he slowly left the tavern where according to the nobleman's written account he had stayed for about a quarter of an hour.

As soon as the vampire came out, everyone realized that it was not a collective hallucination because the poor customer who had been bitten had the two wounds caused by the terrifying being on his neck. The nobleman writes in his account that person who had been bitten by the vampire died a week later in a mysterious and disturbing way. The villagers decided to burn the body of the man killed by the vampire in order to prevent him from becoming a vampire too. Here ends the first part of the story: but we must now explain why the nobleman decided to put this episode in writing.

One of the patrons of the tavern was part of the noble's servants and as such lived in the castle. As soon as he returned there, he told this incredible story to his master, who considered it baseless and was angry with the servant, accusing him of getting drunk or wanting to make fun of him. The servant told the master that many other people had seen the vampire and that one of them even bore the marks of the encounter with the vampire on his neck. The next day the nobleman sent for some of the tavern's patrons and was struck by the fact that they all confirmed the version given by his servant, and he himself could see the marks of the vampire's teeth.

At this point the noble began to believe the story of vampirism and ordered the person who had been bitten by the vampire to stay at the castle. In his detailed account, the nobleman reported that such person, for no explainable reason rationally, he weakened day by day, so much so that the day before he died he could not even get out of bed for a few moments. Moreover, the noble had ordered two of his soldiers to remain guarding the door that led to the room of the sick person to prevent the monstrous being from coming into contact with it again.

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The night the vampirized man died, therefore, in front of the door of his room there were soldiers who prevented anyone from entering; in the room there was a large window partly open and not supervised, since the room was in the upper part of the castle and therefore no one could enter. Suddenly the soldiers heard faint cries emitted by the man who was about to die: the man spoke only this sentence:

« The vampire came to get me! »

Immediately after hearing these words, the soldiers entered the room and found the man in agony, so much so that he died a few minutes later without being able to answer the questions of the guards, who could not help but report to the nobleman of the man's disturbing death. . The noble found the window of the room completely open and asked the soldiers why it was wide open even though he had given the order to keep it close. The soldiers denied having opened it, and the servant who assisted the dying man also confirmed that when he had entered the room a few hours earlier the window was only partially open.

The noble along with the villagers decided to burn the corpse to prevent it from becoming a vampire after death. After about a month, during which there were no other appearances of the vampire or suspicious deaths, the noble wrote the story. As he appeared out of nowhere, so the vampire disappeared definitively into thin air, as if he had come from another dimension: what Vallée calls the "dimension of Magonia"?

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Remedios Varo, "Lady Tigerbat"

The noble decided to investigate any cases of vampirism that had occurred in the past in Cluj and in the villages located nearby. The searches proved fruitless, however the noble pointed out in his written account that about forty years earlier of 1816 (the year in which the case of vampirism in question occurred) in the city of Cluj was a mysterious event occurred that could not be rationally explained, although it was not easy to establish whether it was a case of vampirism or the appearance of a ghost. The nobleman closes his account by also recounting this mysterious fact in detail, which we will explain here very briefly, limiting ourselves, however, to applying Vallée's theories only to the case of 1816.

The nobleman writes relates the story of three elderly inhabitants of Cluj according to which about 35-40 years earlier while they were returning to their homes late at night they had met on the road a mysterious being who appeared out of nowhere: the creature of the night went to meet them and said to being a vampire who came to Cluj to let people know that within a short time some frightening facts would occur in the city on that city there was a curse cast by the vampire himself a few years earlier.

After a few months a young woman who lived alone in a house on the outskirts of Cluj was in bed and within a week completely lost his energy, as if someone sucked the energy out of her vital [cf. MACULOTTI: Fairies, witches and dee: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal", its AXISmundi] day after day, so much so that a couple of days before her death she claimed that a vampire had entered her house several times by biting her on the neck. At that time the people who knew her did not believe her because no marks whatsoever were found on the woman's neck. As we pointed out in the book The myths of contemporary society, in the golden age of vampirism there was the belief that vampires always left their teeth marks on the neck of their victims, so it is not surprising that the woman was considered crazy by the inhabitants of Cluj.

However, a week after the woman's death a man reported that one night the ghost of the woman had entered his room and had had sexual intercourse with him, announcing that such intercourse would cost him his life within a month since on the woman there was the (contagious) curse of a vampire. A week after this mysterious event, another man who lived in Cluj claimed that the ghost of this woman had appeared in her bedroom during the night and had proposed that he have sex with her. The man accepted the woman's proposal even though he knew that she had already appeared a week earlier to the other inhabitant of Cluj. Before disappearing, the woman also repeated to this second man that the sexual relations he had with her would cost him her life within a month as she had passed on to him the same vampire curse that had led to her death.

Indeed, after about a month the two men within a few days of each other were forced to go to bed and became weaker and weaker as if a supernatural being (vampire or ghost that was) had sucked their vital energy. In a few days died, but even in this case no i was found on their necks signs that they should have left the vampire's or vampire's teeth; both men, however, reported in the course of their brief and mysterious illness that on more than one occasion during the night the vampire and had appeared to them at the same time the dead woman and they remembered the curse that would kill them. Thus ends the nobleman's written account.

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In our opinion the latter case located halfway between vampire stories and ghost stories would seem to be right John Keell. As we have already written in the article Some reflections on John Keel's superspectrum theory [on the website of Nexus Editions] the American ufologist argues that all mysterious facts, even those that seem to have no connection between them, are created by the energy of an entity that Keel defines "Superspectrum", because located in an area of ​​the electromagnetic spectrum not perceptible by the sense organs of human beingsi.

Instead, the case of vampirism that took place in 1816 could be explained using some theories of Jacques Vallée which we will now briefly explain and then apply them to this case of vampirism and more generally to the belief in the existence of vampires.

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Remedios Varo, Portait of Dr. Ignatio Chavez
Remedios Varo, "Portait of Dr. Ignatio Chavez"

The first Jacques Vallée theory that we will consider is the one about the existence of a universe parallel to ours, defined by Vallée «dimensions di Magonia» (in medieval folklore Magonia was one of the denominations of the world inhabited by fairies, gnomes, elves and goblins who in certain favorable circumstances could enter our world and in some cases could even kidnap human beings to take them to the world of Magonia) [cf. . MACULOTTI: The kidnappings of the Fairies: the "changeling" and the "renewal of the lineage", its AXISmundi].

According to the Franco-American ufologist the inhabitants of the dimension of Magonia they would be able to interfere with the affairs of mankind in various ways: such interference would be aimed at manipulating the world view and behavior of human beings in order to condition their beliefs and behaviors without them realizing that they have been undergoing this "subtle" influence since the dawn of time.

As we wrote in the article Hypothesis on the origin of UFOs [up CentroStudiLaRuna], Vallée together with Keel must be considered the founder of New Ufology, a current based on the assumption that extraterrestrials are not hidden behind UFO phenomenology paraphysical entities from a parallel universe, who would pretend to be aliens to manipulate the beliefs of human beings (paraphysical hypothesis of the origin of UFOs) [cf. MACULOTTI: Who hides behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis, its AXISmundi].

Vallée is convinced that the inhabitants of the Magonia dimension have been interfering with the affairs of human beings since the beginning of history assuming from time to time the appearance of beings such as fairies, gnomes, elves, goblins, supernatural creatures of various kinds, aliens. According to the French-American ufologist, throughout the history of mankind the inhabitants of Magonia have masked themselves in the most disparate ways, thus demonstrating that they have chameleonic abilities and always choosing the most credible disguise in the various historical periods.

To give two very significant examples during the medieval age they would have taken the form of fairies, gnomes and elves because in that specific historical period almost all believed in the existence of the "little people" while today the inhabitants of Magonia themselves would have chosen to disguise as aliens (thus giving rise to the UFO phenomenon) because today, finding ourselves in the technological and space age, many people believe in the existence of "other" intelligences residing in cosmic space.

As we wrote in the books UFO believers e Sociological reflections on the mystery of UFOs, Vallée and Keel are the authors of the books that started the explosion and diffusion, first in the United States and then in many other nations of the New Ufology. John Keel is the author of, among other books, of UFO: Trojan horse operation, while Jacques Vallée is best known for Passport to Magonia: these books must be considered the basic texts of the paraphysical current that was born in 1969 in the United States.

Jacques Vallée is convinced that the inhabitants of Magonia take on different appearances over the centuries in order to create beliefs in the world of human beings, a socio-cultural climate (Mood), political, religious functional to their interests and al their main purpose is to create a vision of the world (Worldview) that allows them to manipulate the beliefs and behavior of human beings.

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Remedios Varo, The Hermit, 1955
Remedios Varo, “The Hermit”, 1955

As already adequately pointed out in the book A sociological reading of contemporary reality, human beings act taking into account not so much the reality of the facts but the interpretation they give of the facts, an interpretation that often does not coincide with the actual reality but rather tends to deform it. Also in that book we argued that in all historical eras, including ours, what conditions human behavior is not so much historical and social events but the collective perception of such events. In summary, to manipulate human beings it is not necessary to modify historical events but it would be sufficient to modify the collective perception of them.

One of the fundamental laws of sociology is the defined law of "As if»: this law states that it does not matter that an event is real to condition the behavior of human beings but it is sufficient that they consider it to be so to condition collective behavior. In our books entitled UFO believers e Sociological reflections on the mystery of UFOs we have highlighted that the paraphysical theory of the origin of UFOs advanced by John Keel and Jacques Vallée makes sense only if we start from the assumption that the paraphysical entities take into account and use the sociological law of "As if»To manipulate the behavior of human beings, since this sociological law is valid not only in the contemporary world but in all historical epochs starting from the most ancient ones.

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Returning to Jacques Vallée's theories, the "thermostat effect" theory elaborated by the French-American ufologist. The inhabitants of Magonia would create in all eras a socio-cultural climate favorable to the achievement of their goals and would do everything to keep this climate unchanged. Consequentially, their behavior would be comparable to the action of a thermostat, which once the temperature desired by the owner is reached in a house ensures that it does not undergo any variation, not getting too cold or too hot.

According to Jacques Vallée, the inhabitants of Magonia would use three strategies to create and maintain a constant socio-cultural climate, thus giving rise to the "thermostat effect": frightening human beings by assuming the appearance of creatures and terrifying and creating scary situations (e.g. cases of vampirism and werewolfism), give rise to situations and attractive events and pleasurable by creating attractive and charming creatures (e.g. fairies) and engaging in behaviors that create confusion in humans (e.g. contradictory or meaningless behavior).

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We will take inspiration from Vallée's theories to answer the following two questions: why for a long time in many European and even non-European nations so many individuals believed in the existence of vampires to the point of living in terror every time the sun set? Why in contemporary society no one believes in the existence of vampires anymore?

Regarding the first question, accepting Vallée's theories it could be answered that the fact that so many people in the past believed in vampirism is due to the fact that the inhabitants of Magonia wanted humans to believe in the existence of vampires because this belief was functional. to achieve their purpose, or to condition their behavior by manipulating theirs Worldview (world view), the Mood , Education dominant in the various historical periods.

To answer the second question, it could be said that men have stopped believing in the existence of vampires because the inhabitants of the parallel universe of Magonia would have come to the conclusion that this was no longer compatible with the achievement of their goals. At this point, however, we must ask ourselves how, according to Vallée, the inhabitants of Magonia would have at first made men believe in the existence of vampires and later they would have convinced them that these do not exist.

For Vallée the inhabitants of Magonia convinced men of the existence of vampires by assuming the appearance of vampires and penetrating our universe through the windows that put two parallel dimensions in contact, ours and theirs; then in our universe they attacked human beings. When the inhabitants of Magonia decided that men should no longer believe in vampires, they stopped assuming the form of them, and as time passed no one believed in vampires anymore. We believe this explanation given by Vallée plausible, but we do not feel to exclude the possibility, not considered by Vallée, that the inhabitants of Magonia may have created vampires using a form of energy in their possession.

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Luca Rossi, "Extraterrestrial Infiltration in Human Gnosis", 2012

For the case of vampirism which took place in 1816 in Romania, we were struck by two elements of the report drawn up by the noble. The vampire who entered the tavern seemed interested in proving to patrons that he was a vampire. Why so much theatricality? If we assume that this vampire was an inhabitant of Magonia or a being created by the energy of the inhabitants of Magonia, it is easy to answer: the vampire would have acted like this because in that historical period the inhabitants of Magonia wanted to convince humans of the existence of vampires.

Secondly, and concluding, this case of vampirism cannot be explained by arguing that the vampire was not real but a hallucination of the patrons. Against the hypothesis of hallucination it is possible to cite at least three contrary arguments: in the first place the vampire was seen by numerous patrons; secondly, the vampire bite marks on the attacked man's neck were seen by all present and also by the noble author of the report; thirdly, if it had been a hallucination, the man attacked by the vampire would not have died in a mysterious way in no time, just as the vampire had predicted.


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