By J Gordon Melton
Revised, up to date, and enlarged, this substantial reference is an alphabetic journey of the psychosexual, macabre international of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, and mentioned realities of vampires and vampire legends from around the globe, many aspects are uncovered—historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and renowned. From Vlad the Impaler and Barnabas Collins to Dracula and Lestat, this exhaustive advisor furnishes greater than 500 essays, a vampire chronology, and 60 pages of vampire assets. whole with special illustrations and pictures, the third variation of this well known authority features a wealth of present occasions, together with the Twilight phenomenon; modern authors of vampire romance; the expansion and improvement of real, self-identified vampire groups; and prominent television indicates from Buffy to real Blood.
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Lavergne, Remi. A Phonetic Transcription of the Creole Negro’s Medical Treatments, Superstitions, and Folklore in the Parish of Pointe Coupée. New Orleans, LA: Master of Arts thesis, Louisiana State University, 1930. Murphy, Michael J. The Celluloid Vampires: A History and Filmography, 1897–1779. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1979. 351 pp. Puckett, Newbell Niles. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, African American actress and singer Grace Jones 1926.
2 vols. 1871. 4th ed. London: John Murray, 1903. Vellutini, John L. ” Journal of Vampirology 7, 1 (1990): 2–21. Anarchs see: Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ( ) Anemia A nemia is a disease of the blood that has come, in some quarters, to be associated with vampirism. Anemia is caused by a reduction of either red blood cells or hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying pigment of the cells) relative to the other ingredients in the blood. The symptoms include a pale complexion, fatigue, and in its more extreme instances, fainting spells.
Self-declared victims have branded a wide variety of social groups, rightly or wrongly, as their vampire oppressors. These two approaches to the vampire—which emerge at various appropriate points through the text of this book—seem to account for most of the phenomena of vampirism that I have encountered. Further, they suggest that the vampire (or its structural equivalent) is a universal figure in human culture, which emerged independently at many points in different societies. There is little evidence to suggest that the vampire emerged in one time and place and then diffused around the world from a primal source.