Nosferatu (2024)

This week we're traveling back to 1830s Germany (and Transylvania) with Nosferatu! Join us as we learn about the folklore of garlic, exhuming suspected vampires, plague ships, and more!

Sources:
Booseum: Vampires! Carnegie Museum of Natural History, available at https://carnegiemnh.org/booseum-vampires/#:~:text=Garlic%2C%20specifically%20the%20chemical%20compound,would%20%E2%80%9Ckill%E2%80%9D%20a%20vampire.
Vampire Myths Originated With a Real Blood Disorder, available at https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/vampire-myths-originated-real-blood-disorder
Eater Video: How Garlic Became a Vampire Killer, and Other Allium Myths, available at https://www.eater.com/2016/11/14/13626258/garlic-vampire-repellent-allium-myths-forklore

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https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/ten-things-you-need-to-know-before-visiting-transylvania

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Saul Epstein and Sara Libby Robinson, "The Soul, Evil Spirits, and the Undead: Vampires, Death, and Burial in Jewish Folklore and Law," Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies of the Preternatural 1, no.2 (2012): 232-51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/preternature.1.2.0232
Agnes Murgoci, "The Vampire in Roumania," Folklore 37, no.4 (1926): 320-49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1256143

David Canfield, "Making Nosferatu," Vanity Fair, available at https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nosferatu-shot-list-awards-insider?srsltid=AfmBOoquAyo3_YpRnmKQTTsu1im1fEPuks-8FQHVSQt9fRc2VqYjc5U7
William Earl, "Bill Skarsgard's Nosferatu Transformation," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/bill-skarsgard-nosferatu-transformation-makeup-mustache-count-orlok-1236249285/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)
Meagan Navarro Review, Bloody Disgusting: https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3847134/nosferatu-review-robert-eggers-macabre-masterpiece/

"GERMANY. Plague on a ship
Public Health Reports (1896-1970), Vol. 16, No. 5 (February 1, 1901), p. 210 (1 page)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41457493

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Ainsley Hawthorne, "Plague Upon the Waters: How a Disease-Ridden Steamboat Spread Yellow Fever," CBC, available at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-yellow-fever-1.5936980
Philippa Helliwell, "Plague Ahoy! Maritime Quarantine in the 18th Century," National Archives, available at https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/plague-ahoy-maritime-quarantine-in-the-18th-century/