Vampires, burial, and death
Subtitle: folklore and reality
By: Paul Barber.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Vampires; Postmortem changes -- Folklore; Dead -- Folklore
Description: Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [215]-231.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Introduction -- Peter Plogojowitz -- The Shoemaker of Silesia -- Visum et Repertum -- De Tournefort's Vrykohkas -- How revenants come into existence -- The appearance of the vampire -- Apotropaics I -- Apotropaics II -- Search and destroy -- The vampire's activity -- Some theories of the vampire -- The body after death -- Actions and reactions -- Hands emerging from the earth -- Down to a watery grave -- Killing the vampire -- Body disposal and its problems -- The soul after death -- Keeping body and soul apart -- Conclusion.