Vampires, Burial, and Death : Folklore and Reality / Paul Barber.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Vampires. Postmortem changes > Folklore. Dead > Folklore. Dead. Postmortem changes. Folklore.