There was a certain one, so spirits told, who when he died, they told, had thought about vampires and was obsessed with the insane wish, if he should die, to do the same [as they] and thus be raised up by the life [in blood]. He was with me and was trying the same thing where the larger veins flow down along the neck and dorsal spine. But because no evil can befall me, the attempt was in vain. This happened, they said, because in the hour of death he had thought about sucking blood, and this thought returned to him when he found out that he was with a person living in the body. 1748, 10 March.