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Author: Michael E. Bell Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819571717 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Globe). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, “vampires” lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. “A marvelous book.” —Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.
Author: Michael E. Bell Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819571717 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Globe). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, “vampires” lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. “A marvelous book.” —Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.
Author: Roxie J. Zwicker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614237379 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 164
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A historical tour of the Bay State’s oldest burial grounds—and the sometimes-spooky stories behind them. Massachusetts's historic graveyards are the final resting places for tales of the strange and supernatural. From Newburyport to Truro, these graveyards often frighten the living, but the dead who rest within them have stories to share with the world they left behind. While Giles Corey is said to haunt the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, cursing those involved in the infamous witch trials, visitors to the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain enjoy an arboretum and a burial ground with Victorian-era memorials. One of the oldest cemeteries in Massachusetts, Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, has been the final resting place for residents for nearly 375 years. Author Roxie Zwicker tours the Bay State's oldest burial grounds, exploring the stones, stories and supernatural lore of these hallowed places. Includes photos
Author: Barry Kemp Publisher: Granta Books ISBN: 1847087515 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld, along with the divine gods who controlled the universe. The Book of the Dead empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods who governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the Book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.
Author: Marcus Sedgwick Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books ISBN: 0307433838 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: “Beautifully paced and sometimes blood-soaked. . . . A very tangible sense of evil.”—The Guardian “Subtle menace and power.”—The Independent “Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue.”—The Bookseller
Author: John H. Taylor Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674057500 Category : Book of the dead Languages : en Pages : 328
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With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
Author: Elizabeth Daly Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press ISBN: 1937384233 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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A copy of Shakespeare’s The Tempest pulls a bookseller into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie’s favorite American author. The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw’s battered old edition of The Tempest—and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge. Gamadge, of course, is not only an expert in solving pesky problems but also an expert in rare books, and his two sets of expertise combine to uncover the extraordinary puzzle of Mr. Crenshaw, which began in California and ended on the other side of the country, at a chilly New England rendezvous. “An absorbing yarn that holds up to the end.” —New York Times “Beautifully plotted, with believable characters and ample thrills” —Saturday Review of Books
Author: Ptolemy Tompkins Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451616538 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 293
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A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.
Author: Thomas Fillion Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781539450658 Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
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A retired diplomat, Robert Fortier, escorts his eighty-eight year old father from Florida to their home state of Vermont to bury his father's sister in a poignant story of Thanksgiving. New England Book Of The Dead links together the 1906 fire that destroyed a Cornell University fraternity house, a horrific Christmas accident in the 1950's that shocked a small Vermont town, and the tragic occurrences at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire in the years 1967-1968 into a tale that reveals behind every ordinary life there are extraordinary circumstances.
Author: James Hill Parker Publisher: University Press of Amer ISBN: 9780819199034 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 90
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This unique book is a study of northern New England and its culture's views of death. The author, James Hill Parker, pieces together conversations, funerals and other evidence of a latent Book of the Dead. He also makes comparisons with the Mayan and various books of the dead. The book discusses several methodological problems that were encountered in the author's search for the New England and other books of the dead. Readers will benefit from the information that Parker has gathered due to his 'insider/outside' status. His intriguing work will surely interest historians, sociologists and the literate public who want to learn more about New England's cultural history.
Author: Douglas Preston Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 0759516030 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 410
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Can FBI Special Agent Pendergast stop a cursed Egyptian tomb from terrorizing New York City -- or will he stay trapped in a maximum security prison, punished for a murder he didn't commit? An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori
Author: Michael E. Bell
Author: Michael E. Bell
Author: Roxie J. Zwicker
Author: Barry Kemp
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Author: John H. Taylor
Author: Elizabeth Daly
Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Author: Thomas Fillion
Author: James Hill Parker
Author: Douglas Preston