Author: Jan Louis PerkowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Vampires, Dwarves and Witches Among the Ontario Kashubs
Author: Jan Louis PerkowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Vampires, dwarves and witches among the Ontario Kashubs
Author: Jan L. PerkowskiPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823120
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Kashubian people began arriving in Canada from north-central Poland during the early 1860s, the majority of them settling in Renfrew County, Ontario. The function and meaning of the principal daemons in their folklore are studied in relation to the Canadian context and the author examines the adaptations made in form and content.
Vampires, dwarves, and witches among the Ontario kashubs
Author: Mysteries of Ontario
Author: John Robert ColomboPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888822055
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book brings together some 500 accounts of strange events and eerie experiences in the province.
Vampires, dwarves, and witches among the Ontario Kashuibs
Author: Jan Louis PerkowskiVampires, Dwarwes, and Witches Among the Ontario Kashubs
Author: Jan. L.. PerkowskiWampires, Dwarves and Witches Among the Ontario Kashubs
Author: How to Kill a Vampire
Author: Liisa LadouceurPublisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 177041147X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Citing examples from folklore, as well as horror films, TV shows, and works of fiction, this book details all known ways to prevent vampirism, including how to protect oneself against attacks and how to destroy vampires. While offering explanations on the origins and uses of most commonly known tactics in fending off vampirism, the book also delves much deeper by collecting historical accounts of unusual burial rites and shocking superstitions from European history, from the “real” Serbian vampire Arnold Paole to the unique Bulgarian Djadadjii, a professional vampire “bottler.” It traces the evolution of how to kill the fictional vampire—from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Hammer horror films beginning in the 1950s to Anne Rice’s Lestat and the dreamy vamps of Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries—and also celebrates the most important slayers, including Van Helsing, Buffy, and Blade. In exploring how and why these monsters have been created and the increasingly complex ways in which they are destroyed, the book not only serves as a handy guide to the history and modern role of the vampire, it reveals much about the changing nature of human fears.
The Vampire
Author: Nick GroomPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300232233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television
Author: Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.