Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface,Used

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface,Used

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Brand: Yale University Press
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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 sixteenthcentury shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading.This studys comprehensiveness and the authors bonedry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldnt stay dead.BooklistBarbers inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology.Roy Porter, NatureA splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy. The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors.Anthony Daniels, SpectatorThis book is fascinating reading for physicians and anthropologists as well as anyone interested in folklore.R. Ted Steinbock, M.D., Journal of the American Medical AssociationA fascinating and painstaking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science.Huw Knight, New Scientist

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