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Title The vampire : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)
Contents The history of the word vampire / Katharina M. Wilson -- The vampire in Roumania / Agnes Murgoci -- The Romanian folkloric vampire / Jan Louis Perkowski -- East European vampires / Felix Oinas -- In defense of vampires / John V.A. Fine, Jr. -- South Slavic countermeasures against vampires / Friedrich S. Krauss -- The killing of a vampire / Veselin Čajkanovič -- The Greek vampire : a study of cyclic symbolism in marriage and death / Juliette du Boulay -- Forensic pathology and the European vampire / Paul Barber -- Clinical vampirism : blending myth and reality / Philip D. Jaffé and Frank DiCataldo -- The vampire as bloodthirsty revenant : a psychoanalytic post mortem / Alan Dundes
Summary This volume gives accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures. The text examines the nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index
Notes English
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Subject Vampires.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Vampires
Vampir
Vampiers.
Volkscultuur.
Pathologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Dundes, Alan, editor
LC no. 98010399
ISBN 9780299159238
029915923X
0299159205
9780299159207
0299159248
9780299159245