When you think about vampires, what do you associate with them? They drink blood, they’re undead, they have superhuman abilities, and they can be destroyed by sunlight, just to name a few vampiric ...

While many vampires have been used to scare audiences and unveil human anguishes, some bloodsuckers are more memorable than others.

The terrifying teyollohcuani is a shape-shifter of ancient indigenous lore ... and other undead vampires—a living creature, says the anthropologist, whose 2009 paper in History of Religions ...

Vampire fiction versus folklore As a body decomposes ... He died several weeks later. Throughout history, many people have found or exhumed extraordinarily well-preserved bodies.

The folklore of the space age married medieval folklore and gave birth to the ... and Florescu, Radu. In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Revised Edition. Boston: Houghton ...

Think you know movie vampires? Think again. Vampires of folklore didn’t always even drink blood. Sometimes, they would strangle their victims. Sometimes, they would fornicate with their victims ...

From the ancient lore of the Slavic peoples through the Polish Romantic literature of Mickiewicz up to contemporary inspirations and the most recent archaeological finds, Polish vampires continue to ...