Mythologized Vampires: Reflection of the Vampire Myths of Eastern Europe in Modern European Literature through Treatises of the 18th-19th Centuries.

The deep penetration of vampirism as a full-scale phenomenon in modern culture begins in Eastern Europe. Folklore widespread in Eastern Europe has been the subject of interest of many travelers and researchers since the 17th century. Now this folklore is reflected in many world famous works of art, and the phenomenon of frankenfiction that appeared in the 21st century forces writers to develop the theme of the phenomenon of vampirism. This work is an original study of the transition of the myths about vampirism educated in Eastern Europe in the Earlier New Time into artistic images of modern vampires in European literature of the XX-XXI centuries. In historiography, devoted to the reflection and transmission of images of individual characters of the folklore of Eastern Europe, there is no appeal to the character in the context of modern fiction. In my research, I will examine the most famous historical characters that have become the subject of folklore through the prism of 17th-19th century treatises. and their subsequent reflection in the fiction of Western Europe of the XX-XXI centuries. The study is based on the analysis of different types of sources based on the comparative imagological method, such as personal diaries and poetry of the period of the 15th-16th centuries, treatises and studies on vampirism, as a spreading phenomenon in Europe in the 17th-19th centuries, as well as fiction of the 20th century. XXI centuries. The purpose of the analysis is to understand the reason for the reflection of the folklore of Eastern Europe of the Early New Time in the fiction of modern Western Europe and to trace the reflection of the phenomenon of vampirism as a crisis of modernity in modern European literature.