Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality - Hardcover

Barber, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300041268 ISBN 13: 9780300041262

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Describes a scientific explanation for the start of the vampire legend, looks at the folklore in various cultures, and discusses burial customs

About this title

From Library Journal:

Barber has written a stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world. To explain the underlying myraid interment and mourning practices designed to keep the dead at bay, he postulates a universal fear of the"vampire/revenant." Such fear was most probably based on universal lack of knowledge and control over fatal illness and disease, and misinterpretations of the natural (and varied) physical manifestations of death and decay in the human body. A lengthy bibliography accompanies the text. Best for academics, but for interested general readers too. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred, N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0300041268
• ISBN 13: 9780300041262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244