Vampires, Burial, & Death

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Vampires, Burial, & Death

Vampires, Burial, & Death

Name: Vampires, Burial, & Death
ISBN: 9780300164817

Paul Barber

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Folklore and Reality
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. This study’s comprehensiveness and the author’s bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldn’t stay dead. Barber’s inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking

Κατηγορίες:

Fiction - Myths & Folklore

Έτος:

1988

Έκδοση:

2nd Printing

Εκδότης:

Yale University Press

Γλώσσα:

english

Σελίδες:

250