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9780300048599
Vampires, Burial, and Death Folklore and Reality
by Barber, Paul
by Barber, Paul
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- Condition: Very Good
- Provider: Magers and Quinn Contact
- Provider Rating: 97%
- Ships From: Minneapolis, MN
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- Comments: Condition: Previously read, moderate to light wear.;
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780300048599
- ISBN: 0300048599
- Publication Date: 1988
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
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SUMMARY
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading.Barber, Paul is the author of 'Vampires, Burial, and Death Folklore and Reality', published 1988 under ISBN 9780300048599 and ISBN 0300048599.
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