The vampire : a casebook / editor, Alan Dundes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dundes, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

ISBN:

9780299159238

029915923X

OCLC:

669508646