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Vampires, burial, and death : 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the 2010 Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- I: Peter Plogojowitz
- II: The Shoemaker of Silesia
- III: Visum et Repertum
- IV: De Tournefort's Vrykolakas
- V: How Revenants Come into Existence
- VI: The Appearance of the Vampire
- VII: Apotropaics I
- VIII: Apotropaics II
- IX: Search and Destroy
- X: The Vampire's Activity
- XI: Some Theories of the Vampire
- XII: The Body after Death
- XIII: Actions and Reactions
- XIV: Hands Emerging from the Earth
- XV: Down to a Watery Grave
- XVI: Killing the VampireXVII: Body Disposal and Its Problems
- XVIII: The Soul after Death
- XIX: Keeping Body and Soul Apart
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y