Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth (Myth and Mankind)

Phillips, Charles,Kerrigan, Michael,Duncan Baird Publishers

ISBN 10: 0705436136 / ISBN 13: 9780705436137

Published by Time Life Education, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth (Myth and Mankind)
• Publisher: Time Life Education
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0705436136
• ISBN 13: 9780705436137
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, settling territory south into the Balkins and as far west as the Elbe River. Equally impressive is their spiritual journey which began with the worship of ancient pagan gods and matured with the dawn of the Christian age. But despite manifold cultural and religious changes, traces of their spirit have survived: in the great epics of their ancient heroes; in their belief in the earth's healing power; and in the magical stories which fill the forbidding landscape with fantastical characters. These include the vampire whose wretched specter still stalks our world today.