INALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT VAMPIRES
Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures
of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire
and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered
in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading
scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology,
and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its
birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with
a penchant for drinking blood.
The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of
literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk
traditions. The essays examine the history of the word "vampire";
Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical
attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible
psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a
scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire continues to
haunt the lives of all those who encounter it -- in reality or in
fiction.
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