Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.
Contents:
The history of the word vampire / Katharina M. Wilson -- The vampire in Roumania / Agnes Murgoci -- The Romanian folkloric vampire / Jan Louis Perkowski -- East European vampires / Felix Oinas -- In defense of vampires / John V.A. Fine, Jr. -- South Slavic countermeasures against vampires / Friedrich S. Krauss -- The killing of a vampire / Veselin Čajkanovič -- The Greek vampire : a study of cyclic symbolism in marriage and death / Juliette du Boulay -- Forensic pathology and the European vampire / Paul Barber -- Clinical vampirism : blending myth and reality / Philip D. Jaffé and Frank DiCataldo -- The vampire as bloodthirsty revenant : a psychoanalytic post mortem / Alan Dundes.
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