Paul Barber, "Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality"
Yale University Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0300041268 | 244 pages | siPDF | 4.5 MB
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires—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. Analyzing these reports, Barber offers for the first time a scientific explanation for the origin of the vampire legends.