Vampires, burial, and death : folklore and reality
Barber, Paul, 1941-2010
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Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires & offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. He tells of the 16th-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, & the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation & dissection of a graveyard of Serbian vampires.
Main title:
Vampires, burial, and death : folklore and reality / Paul Barber.
Author:
Edition:
[New ed.] / with a new preface.
Imprint:
New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2010.
Collation:
xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: 1988.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300164817 (pbk)
Dewey class:
398.45398.45Ba1
Local class:
398.45Ba1
Language:
English
BRN:
260865